john — /jon/, n. Slang. 1. a toilet or bathroom. 2. (sometimes cap.) a fellow; guy. 3. (sometimes cap.) a prostitute s customer. [generic use of the proper name] * * * I known as John Lackland born Dec. 24, 1167, Oxford, Eng. died Oct. 18/19, 1216,… … Universalium
John — /jon/, n. 1. the apostle John, believed to be the author of the fourth Gospel, three Epistles, and the book of Revelation. 2. See John the Baptist. 3. (John Lackland) 1167? 1216, king of England 1199 1216; signer of the Magna Carta 1215 (son of… … Universalium
Charles Alford — Anglicanism portal Charles Richard Alford (13 August 1816 – 13 June 1898) was an Anglican bishop and author in the last third of the 19th century.[1] Alford was born into an ecclesiastical family in … Wikipedia
List of Protestant missionaries in China — Beginning in 1807, with the arrival of Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur and Wilda Mathews of the China Inland Mission, foreign Protestant missionaries lived and worked in China. The… … Wikipedia
Christopher Sargent — C.B.R. Sargent The Rt. Rev. Christopher Birdwood Roussel Sargent (舒展) was a missionary of the Anglican Church. Biography He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 4 June 1906, [1]educated at St Paul s and St Catharine s College, Cambridge and… … Wikipedia
Samuel Dyer — 台約爾 (February 20, 1804 ndash; October 24,1843), 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… … Wikipedia
Chinese Bible translations — The creation of Chinese Bible Translations began in the nineteenth century, but availability only became widespread in the early twentieth century.Catholic translation workThe first translations of the Bible into Chinese were made by Catholic… … Wikipedia
St. Paul's College, Hong Kong — Infobox School name = St. Paul s College, Hong Kong imagesize = 150px caption = School Badge of St. Paul s College motto= 寅畏上主是為智之本 (The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom) type= DSS, Day, All male Primary Secondary established = 1851… … Wikipedia
Bible translations into Chinese — Frederick W. Baller, C. Goodrich, Calvin Wilson Mateer, Spencer Lewis, and George Sydney Owen each with expert Chinese language assistants[1] Chinese Bible translations mean all works on translating whole or parts of the Bible into the many… … Wikipedia
Maria Jane Taylor — Maria Jane Dyer Maria Jane (Dyer) Taylor Born January 16, 1837 British Straits Settlement of Malacca, Malaysia Died July 23, 1870 Zhenjian … Wikipedia
