REES, WILLIAM HOPKYN (1859 - 1924), missionary, linguist, author

Born 24 April 1859 at Cwmavon, Glamorganshire. He entered Bala Independent College, 1877, and was minister of Llechryd and Ffynnon-bedr from 1881 to 1883, when he sailed for the North China, L.M.S., mission field. He married Margaret Charlotte Harrison of Coed-poeth, and settled at Chi Chou in 1888, where he had founded a station. He weathered the difficulties of the 1900 rebellion, and was decorated with the ' Blue Ribbon ' and given rank of Mandarin for services of pacification. He was transferred to the Peking United Theological College and the Language School for Missionaries, appointed to the Board of Revisers of the Old Testament Scriptures in Mandarin, and to the Shanghai staff of the Christian Literature for China Society. In 1915 he was elected associate secretary, with Timothy Richard, and in 1916 general secretary, of the Christian Literature Society for China, and a member of the editorial board of the Chinese Recorder in 1919. He resigned in 1921 owing to ill health, and was given the chair of Chinese in the University of London. He published China a'r Chineaid, 1906, Griffith John o China, 1901, in Welsh, and Jonathan Lees of Tientsin and How to Study Chinese, 1918, both in English. He died in London 4 August 1924.

Author

• Reverend Dr Evan Lewis Evans, (1898 - 1978)

Sources

• H. T. Jacob, Hopkyn Rees, China sef, trem ar fywyd a llafur y Parch. William Hopkyn Rees, D.D. (London 1925)
• E. Lewis Evans, Cymru a'r Gymdeithas Genhadol, sef hanes ei Chychwyn (1945)

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• Wikidata: Q20734634

Published date: 1959

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