'The Late' Dr. Hopkyn® Rees's Distinguished Career Dr: Hopkyn Rees who passed away suddenly in London, 4, was one of the most tinguished foreigners who ever came to China. He will remain an authority on Chinese language ud literature: and his long and ever [dul residence in China as a missi ary has played a prominent: part the founding of several educational institutions for the study of the Chinese language.
Born at Ceomavan in Glamorgan-shire in 1859 he came out here at institutions for the study of Chinese. don nary Societ; previously studied at Bala College and for a short time held a pastorate in Wales, At the outzet of his missionary career he was in 1882 appointed to Peking, and with Dr. Sewell "Macfarlane brought the opening of a new station Chichou, Chibi, in 1887. He was in charge of the' mission in Tientsin from 1901 to 1903 and took part in. the settlement of the negotiations over the Boxer trouble, for which he received the Decoration of the Blue Button from. the Empress. Later when transferred to Peing he was one of the founders of the Language School, and was member of the board of Revises of the Old Testament Scriptures la Mandarin. His connexion with the Christian Literature Society brought him to Shangha Timothy Ri general secretary.
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