Robert Morrison founds the Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca

Background. Robert Morrison, a British Protestant missionary and pioneering sinologist, worked in Qing-era Guangdong and Dutch Malacca. William Milne joined Morrison in 1813, and the two collaborated on missionary endeavours in the region. This partnership formed the basis for the establishment of the Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca in 1818, an educational initiative connected to Morrison's broader work of evangelisation, which he had begun after arriving in China in 1807.

Establishment of the College. In 1818, Morrison and Milne established a school for Chinese and Malay children in Malacca. Morrison described this initiative as building an "Anglo-Chinese College." The institution was founded with Milne serving as the first headmaster. This venture represented a significant step in Morrison's missionary work, focusing on education and the training of evangelists, distinct from his earlier translation efforts.

Legacy and Relocation. The Anglo-Chinese College was later renamed Ying Wa College. It was relocated to Hong Kong around 1843, after the territory became a British possession. The London Missionary Society subsequently deemed that the college should focus more on the training of evangelists, leading to its renaming as "The Theological Seminary of the London Missionary Society in China."