Samuel Turner Fearon
Samuel Turner Fearon (c. 1819 – 18 January 1854) was the first professor of Chinese at the
King's College, London. He was an interpreter in the First Opium War and a colonial servant and senior government official in British Hong Kong
.
He was born in
Registral General and Collector of Chinese Revenue in 1846.[1]
He became the first Chinese professor at the
George Thomas Staunton in 1847, despite he was not a Sinologist. He did not give lectures and translate any classics or other works of Chinese language. At the end, the Chinese education at the King's College failed.[2][3]
He died in
St. Pancras, London on 18 January 1854. He was son of Christopher and Elizabeth Fearon. He married Caroline Libery in 1846 and had children Charles and Kate.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Fearon, Samuel Turner". King's College London.
- ^ Kwan, Uganda Sze Pui, ‘Translation and the British Colonial Mission: The Career of Samuel Turner Fearon and the Establishment of Chinese Studies in King's College London’, collected in Wong, Lawrence Wang Chi; Fuehrer, Bernhard; (2016). Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries. Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- ^ Kwan, Uganda Sze Pui, Translation and Resolving Conflict: The First Opium War Interpreter of the British Empire, Samuel T. Fearon (1819-1854) "Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica" (PDF).Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, (2012) Vol. 76, pp. 41-80