Samuel Dyer
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Samuel Dyer (20 February 1804 24 October 1843), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China in the Congregationalist tradition, who worked among the Chinese in Malaysia. He arrived in Penang in 1827. Dyer, his wife Maria, and their family lived in Malacca and then finally in Singapore. He was known as a typographer for creating a steel typeface of Chinese characters for printing to replace traditional wood blocks. Dyer''s type was accurate, aesthetically…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Samuel Dyer (20 February 1804 24 October 1843), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China in the Congregationalist tradition, who worked among the Chinese in Malaysia. He arrived in Penang in 1827. Dyer, his wife Maria, and their family lived in Malacca and then finally in Singapore. He was known as a typographer for creating a steel typeface of Chinese characters for printing to replace traditional wood blocks. Dyer''s type was accurate, aesthetically pleasing, durable and practical.Samuel Dyer was born at the Royal Greenwich Hospital (London), England to John Dyer and Eliza (Seager). He was the fifth of the eight Dyer children. His father was a secretary of the Royal Hospital for Seaman, and later became Chief clerk of the Admiralty in 1820. John was also an acquaintance of Robert Morrison, who was soon to become the first Protestant missionary to China, a connection that would have enormous implications in the life of his son, Samue.