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Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau)

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Macau Protestant Chapel and Old Protestant Cemetery sign 20060401
Macau Protestant Chapel and Old Protestant Cemetery sign 20060401

The Old Protestant Cemetery (Chinese: 基督教墳場; Portuguese: Cemitério Protestante) is a cemetery in Santo António, Macau, China. It was established by the British East India Company in 1821 in Portuguese Macau in response to a lack of burial sites for Protestants in the Roman Catholic Portuguese colony. It is the last resting place of the artist George Chinnery, missionaries Robert Morrison and Samuel Dyer (his wife Maria is buried at the Old Protestant Cemetery in Penang), Royal Navy captain Henry John Spencer-Churchill (son of the 5th Duke of Marlborough and great-great-granduncle of Winston Churchill) and US Naval Lieutenant Joseph Harod Adams (grandson of the second president of the United States, John Adams, and nephew of the sixth, John Quincy Adams). Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, a captain in the Royal Navy, is also buried here, as is John Robert Morrison, son of Robert Morrison, who was appointed as Acting Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong but died eight days later in Macau from fever. William Napier, 9th Lord Napier was buried in the cemetery but his body was subsequently exhumed and reburied in Scotland. Another grave is that of Anders Ljungstedt, a prosperous Swedish businessman, interpreter and historian.In 2005, the cemetery was officially enlisted as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Center of Macau.

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Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau)
Membrodsweg, Heilbronn Sontheim

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Macau Protestant Chapel and Old Protestant Cemetery sign 20060401
Macau Protestant Chapel and Old Protestant Cemetery sign 20060401
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