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Robert Morrison (Chinese: 馬禮遜; born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Canton) was a Scottish missionary, the first Protestant missionary in China. He married Mary Morton on February 20, 1809. They had children James Morrison (5 March, 1811, died on the same day), Rebecca Morrison (July 1812), and John Robert Morrison (17 April, 1814). Mary Morton died in 1821. In November 1824, he married Eliza Armstrong, with whom he had five more children.