Samuel Dyer

Samuel Dyer (1804-1843) served as a Congregationalist missionary to Malay, China, and Hong Kong under the auspices of the London Missionary Society from 1828 until his death in 1843. Educated at Woolwich and Cambridge, he studied for the ministry at Gosport under David Bogue and at Homerton Academy under John Pye Smith.  As a missionary, he was primarily employed with the mission press; he was instrumental in developing moveable metal type for Chinese script. His daughter married the famous missionary to China, J. Hudson Taylor.