Carstairs Douglas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carstairs Douglas

British missionary

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1830

Place of Birth: Kilbarchan, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-Jul-1877

Profession: missionary, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Carstairs Douglas (Chinese: ???; Pe?h-oe-ji: To? Ka-tek) (born 27 December 1830 in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire; died 26 July 1877 in Xiamen, China) was a Scottish missionary, remembered chiefly for his writings concerning the Southern Min language of Fujian, in particular his Chinese–English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy.