Ernest Tipson (1883–1958) was an English Plymouth Brethren missionary and linguist who compiled dictionaries of Cantonese and Hokkien (Amoy dialect). == Early life == Born into a large Brethren family in Enfield (then part of the Edmonton Hundred of Middlesex), England, Tipson began his working life, at the age of 14, as an architect's clerk and typist, but was called to missionary service in the early 1900s.
Ernest Tipson (1883–1958) was an English Plymouth Brethren missionary and linguist who compiled dictionaries of Cantonese and Hokkien (Amoy dialect). == Early life == Born into a large Brethren family in Enfield (then part of the Edmonton Hundred of Middlesex), England, Tipson began his working life, at the age of 14, as an architect's clerk and typist, but was called to missionary service in the early 1900s.
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