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- Medhurst, Walter Henry, China; its state and prospects (Crocker & Brewster, ) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Medhurst, Walter Henry, China; its state and prospects. (J. Snow, ) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Medhurst, Walter Henry, China : its state and prospects : with especial reference to the spread of the Gospel (John Snow, ), also by G. Baxter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Medhurst, Walter Henry, China : its state and prospects, with especial reference to the spread of the gospel: containing allusions to the antiquity, extent, population, civilization, literature, and religion of the Chinese (J. Snow, ) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Medhurst, Walter Henry, China, its state and prospects : with especial reference to the spread of the Gospel containing allusions to the antiquity, extent, population, civilization, literature, and religion of the Chinese (John Snow, ), also by G. Baxter (page images a
Walter Henry Medhurst ( - )
Biography
Walter Medhurst is Notable.
Walter Henry Medhurst was born in London on 29 April [1] and was baptised at St Martin in the Fields on 12 June , the son of William and Sarah Medhurst [2] and educated at St Paul's School. He was employed at the Gloucester Herald where he learned the printer's trade. [3] Walter became involved with the London Missionary Society and in he sailed for the far east aboard the General Graham [4] to found a printing centre in Malacca. During a stopover in Madras he met and married widow Mrs Elizabeth Braune on 19 May at Masulipatam. [5] Their first child a son, Walter, was born in Malacca on 27 March and died on 14th May. [6] A baby girl, Sarah Sophia, was born on 16 November [7]. Another son, Walter, was buried as an infant on Prince of Wales Island (now Penang) on 22 September [8] A third Walter was born the following year.
Walter himself became proficient in Malay, in a knowledge of the written characters of Chinese, and in the colloquial use of more than one of its dialects. He was ordained in Malacca and worked in Penang and later in Batavia (Jakarta) in Java. When peace with China
The Five Faces of Dr Walter Medhurst, D.D.
Andrew Hillier considers how five portraits of the London Missionary Society (LMS) missionary, Walter H. Medhurst (), one of which can be found on HPC, made over the course of his career, were used to maintain connections and promote the missionary cause.
Devout evangelical though he was, Walter Henry Medhurst was not above a touch of vanity, particularly when it came to sitting for his likeness. At least five examples survive today, together with a number of contemporary copies. Between them, they show how he and the LMS attached importance to the image, both for the purpose of promoting the missionary cause and as part of the LMS archive. With his forty-year career coinciding with the birth of photography, they also demonstrate the increasing importance of that new medium for such exercises.[1]
Appointed as a missionary printer to the newly established station at Malacca, on 30 August , aged just twenty, Medhurst, set off on the first leg of his journey to Madras. Before doing so, the LMS commissioned the miniaturist, William Thomas Strutt (), to make a portrait of its latest recruit, to form part of its growing collection.[2]
Walter Henry Medhurst
Childhood and Youth
As a youth, his “face was open, frank, lively; his manners were brisk, quick, winning; his speech ready, off-hand, sometimes blunt and often racy with humour. What he did, he did from the heart, promptly and without delay, and what he enjoyed to the very core… . His youthful vivacity would never leave him” (Holliday, Mission to China, 38).
After a brief time at St. Paul’s School in London, in Medhurst returned to live with his parents in Gloucestershire, where he began work as an apprentice to Joseph Wood, the publisher of the Gloucester Herald. He was a “fast learner and his classical education gave him the ability to contribute articles and editorials in addition to learning how to design and print the newspaper” (Holliday 38).
At this time, Walter had no interest in God or fear of him. Instead, he loved parties, the theater, and dancing. All this changed when his older brother William, who had just been converted to Christ, made him promise to visit the Independent Chapel, where the Rev. William Bishop was preaching. The first sermon he heard immediately captured his attention, and he resolved to become involved i
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