Keywords: SamuelDyerPenang.jpg Samuel Dyer 台約爾 20 February 1804 24 October 1843 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 family lived in Malacca and then finally in Singapore He was known as a typographer for creating a steel typeface of Chinese characters for printing to replace traditional wood blocks Evan Davies The Memoir of Samuel Dyer Sixteen Years Missionary to the Chinese London Snow 1846 ; transferred from http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia by Brian0324 Possibly 1846; originally uploaded to en wikipedia on 20 February 2008 Unknown; originally uploaded by Brian0324 at http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia PD-Art PD-art original upload log page en wikipedia SamuelDyerPenang jpg 2008-02-20 20 21 Brian0324 145920008 945501 bytes <nowiki>From Davies EvanMemoirs of Rev Samuel Dyer; London Snow 1846 The Memoir of Samuel Dyer Sixteen Years Missionary to the Chinese 1846 </nowiki> Samuel Dyer |