Benjamin Keasberry



Singapore Infopedia

by Lee, Gracie




Benjamin Peach Keasberry, Reverend (b. 1811, Hyderabad, India–d. 6 September 1875, Singapore), was an early Protestant missionary to Singapore known for his pioneering work in the Malay mission here. He arrived in Singapore in 1839 and went on to establish the Malay Mission Chapel (today’s Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church), spearhead Malay education, and advance printing and publishing in Singapore. He ran a successful mission press that printed many of Singapore’s early religious and commercial literature. The press was known for its innovative use of lithography that produced beautiful decorative Malay works resembling handwritten calligraphy. Keasberry was also a prolific translator and publisher, and contributed many works in Malay, notably a revised translation of the New Testament Bible, an enlarged and improved English-Malay dictionary and several school text books.1

Early life
Born in India to British parents, Keasberry was raised in Surabaya during the British occupation of Java. He completed his education in Mauritius and Madras. After a failed business venture in Singapore, he returned to Java to work as a clerk in a mercantile firm in Batavia. After the death of a close friend, he felt the call to missions and applied to be an assistant missionary with the Batavia station of the London Missionary Society (LMS).2


Keasberry apprenticed under W. H. Medhurst of the LMS from 1830 to 1834. During this time, he learnt Bible translation, village preaching, hospital chaplaincy and teaching in mission schools. He also acquired the skills of printing, book binding, lithography and literature distribution. The knowledge gained proved invaluable to his later ministry in Singapore. In 1835, Keasberry went to New Jersey, where he furthered his studies at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church. There, he met and married his wife, Charlotte Parker.3

In 1839, the couple set sail for China as independent missionaries, hoping that financial support would come from the American Board of Commission for Foreign Mission (ABCFM). However, upon arrival in Macau, they were denied entry into China. With the intent of returning to Java, they boarded a ship that was bound for Singapore. When they disembarked in Singapore, Keasberry noticed the potential of the Malay work here and decided to plant his roots on the island. He initially supported himself by giving drawing lessons while interacting with the Malays and distributing tracts in his free time. He became acquainted with the work of the Malay mission of the LMS chapel. Owing to his fluency in Malay, he was invited to join the LMS in September 1839. He remained an agent of the LMS until 1847, when it closed its Singapore station to focus on its work in China. Having already established a ministry here, Keasberry chose to stay on as an independent missionary and resigned from the society.4

Malay Mission Chapel
Keasberry began his ministry with the Malay mission of the LMS chapel at Bras Basah Road. The ministry grew and a larger meeting place was soon needed. To this end, he acquired a piece of land in Kampong Bencoolen for the construction of a new chapel. The Malay Mission Chapel (also called the Prinsep Street Chapel) was completed in August 1843, supported by public donations. At its inaugural service, more than 60 Malays and Straits-born Chinese attended. Because of his close association with the chapel, the church was known as the “Tuan Keasberry puna Graja” (meaning Keasberry’s Church in Malay). The chapel held regular services in Malay and English, and its members included early Straits Chinese such as Song Hoot Kiam. After Keasberry’s death, the chapel came under the auspices of the English Presbyterian Mission and is known today as the Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church.5

Although Keasberry’s life work was focused on the Malays, his ministry extended to the Chinese as well. In 1861, he partnered catechist Ching Kwang and preacher Tan See Boo of the Presbyterian Church to establish a preaching point in Bukit Timah. In 1862, a chapel for the Chinese community in Bukit Timah was built with funds raised from the congregation at the Malay Chapel. The Chinese church is known today as Glory Presbyterian Church.6

Malay boarding school
Keasberry was also a pioneer of vernacular education. He first taught Malay classes at the Singapore Institution Free School with Alfred North, an ABCFM missionary, and Munshi Abdullah. Although the classes later ceased due to low enrolment numbers, he continued to serve in the school as an examiner for writing and drawing.7

In 1840, Keasberry started his own free Malay boarding school with 12 Orang Laut boys. The boys were taught reading, writing, geography, arithmetic, music, and Bible scriptures in Malay. Natural sciences and English were later added to the curriculum. The students also received vocational training in printing, lithography, book binding and typecasting to provide them a means of living after graduation. Some of the older boys were hired as apprentices in Keasberry’s mission press. As the school grew, Keasberry moved the school and his residence to larger premises at River Valley Road in 1848. The property, which he named Mount Zion, was bought with the inheritance he received after his father’s death. Keasberry also hired Munshi Abdullah to assist with teaching. In 1857, a Malay girls’ school was added. The Malay school was an institution of good standing at its time and counted members of the Johore royal family among its students. Temenggong Daeng Ibrahim had placed two of his sons, Abu Bakar (who later became the Sultan of Johore) and Abdul Rahman, in his care. Keasberry financed the running of the school with the earnings of the Mission Press, private donations, and grants from the LMS, the Temenggong and the government.8

Mission Press and translation work
In his efforts to reach out to the Malays, Keasberry also published and translated many works in their language. In 1840, he began printing educational materials with a lithographic press that he had borrowed from ABCFM missionaries. Among the first publications he printed were a children’s book of Bible stories that he had translated from T. H. Gallaudet’s The Picture Reading Defining Book; a collection of hymns in Malay; and a book on Natural Philosophy titled Kitab Darihal Tabiat Jenis-Jenis Kejadian Iaitu Guna Bagi Kanak-Kanak. However, progress was slow as the lithographic stones were defective and supplies were lacking. Keasberry appealed to the LMS for new printing equipment and supplies.9

In September 1842, the LMS finally responded to Keasberry’s requests by transferring its English and Malay printing press in Malacca to Singapore. A book bindery was added in 1843. Keasberry also purchased and paid for two lithographic presses and stones. With a functioning printing press and book bindery, he introduced vocational training in book binding, lithography and typesetting to his students. The LMS also deployed Samuel Dyer, who had been developing a fount of movable Chinese metallic types, to Singapore. From 1842 to 1846, the printing press turned in modest profits through the efforts of Keasberry, who dedicated himself to Malay printing, and Samuel Dyer, John Stronach and Alexander Stronach. The latter three were China LMS missionaries stationed in Singapore and devoted themselves to Chinese printing.10

When the LMS left Singapore in 1846, the Malacca printing press was shipped to China. However, Keasberry was able to continue his printing operations in Singapore, having received a fount of types that was transferred from the LMS mission in Penang, a small lithographic press and printing materials from the LMS Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca. Keasberry also procured his own printing equipment and supplies for the printing of Malay materials, and converted the old chapel, which the LMS had deeded to him, into a printing and book binding establishment.11

The printing press undertook commercial, educational and religious printing. These included commercial jobbing (letterheads, bills of lading, etc.), two of Singapore’s early Chinese newspapers Tifang Jih Pao (Local News) and Jit Sheng (Rising Sun), and various publications including school books, biographies, journals, hymn books, prayer books, the Bible and religious tracts. Keasberry was known for advancing the use of lithography in Malay printing. He was able to tap on the decorative potential of the technique to reproduce the form of the Malay manuscript. Among his finest lithographic works is the Malay journal Cermin Mata (The Eye-Glass). With Keasberry’s success, the technology gained wide acceptance with the local Malay commercial press, as it presented a gradual transition from manuscript copying to printing, and was less costly than typography. Keasberry’s influence also extended to educational books. When government Malay schools expanded in the 1870s, the government issued many textbooks that were similar in form and content to the school books that Keasberry had developed for his Malay school.12

Keasberry was also a prolific translator and editor. Among his notable achievements was the translation of the New Testament in Malay, which he printed in Roman characters in 1853. A revised edition was published in 1856. The translation work was commissioned by the British and Foreign Bible Society and undertaken with the assistance of Munshi Abdullah. Titled Kitab Alkudus, Iya Itu Injil Isa Almasih Tuhan Kami (Malay for The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ), Keasberry’s translation was a revision of Reverend R. Burn and Reverend C. H. Thomsen’s translation of the New Testament that was printed in 1831. It included the later revisions made by various LMS missionaries such as Reverend J. Evans and Samuel Dyer.13

Select works translated and/or printed by Keasberry14
1843: Syair Negeri Singapura Terbakar (Syair of the Burning of Singapore) / Bahwa Ini Hikayat Isa (Life of Jesus)
1845: Bahawa Ini Puji-Pujian Yang Dinyanyikan Dengan Berbagai-Bagai Lagunya Pada Tatkala Sembahyang Atau Pada Tatkala Berhimpun-Himpun Akan Meminta Doa (Hymns of Praise)

1846: Bahwa Ini Hikayat Binatang (Natural History in Malay) / A Vocabulary of the English and Malay Languages, Enlarged and Improved
1847: Zabur Iaitu Surat Segala Mazmur (The Book of All the Psalms) / Syair Kampung Gelam Terbakar (Syair of the Burning of Gelam Village)
1848–51: Taman Pungatauan Bagie Kanak Kanak (Garden of Knowledge)
1849: Hikayat Abdullah (Stories of Abdullah)
1852: Pengutib Segala Remah (Collector of Grains of Knowledge) / Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah Ke Kelantan (Account of Abdullah’s Voyage to Kelantan) (2nd ed.)
1854: Perjalanan Orang Menchari Slamat (Pilgrim’s Progress)
1855:
Ceretera Ilmu Kepandaian Orang Putih (Story of the White People’s Knowledge Expertise)

1856: Hikayat Pada Menyatakan Darihal Benua Asia Dan Afrika Serta Dengan Tokong-Tokong Pulau Di Tanah Melayu (An Elementary Geography of Asia and Africa: With a Special Chapter on the Malay Peninsula)
1857: Kitab Sembahyang Yang Dipakai Dalam Majlis Orang Kristian Dan Adat Membahagi Sakramen-Sakramen Dan Lain-Lain Rukun Dan Adat-Adat Dalam Gereja Menurut Adat-Adat Gereja Negeri Inglan Dan Irian Dengan Cara Dan Adat-Adat Membuat Dan Mengaturkan Dan Mengkuduskan Bisap-Bisap Paderi-Paderi Dan Dikan-Dikan (Book of Common Prayer)
1859:
Perumpamaan Nabi Allah Sulaiman (The Book of Proverbs)

1862: Kitab Taurat Musa Yang Burnama Kajadian (The Book of Genesis in Malay)
1863: Bubrapa Pungajaran Deripada Injil Isa Almasih: Yang Dikhotbatkan Dalam Greja, Dikampong Bungkulu (Sermons in Malay)
1872: Taurat Nabi Allah Musa Yang Bernama Keluaran (The Book of Exodus)

Death
Keasberry died of heart disease on 6 September 1875 while preaching at the Malay Mission Chapel.15 He was buried at Bukit Timah Cemetery and his grave is marked by a tombstone installed by his former student Abu Bakar, the Maharaja of Johore.16


Family
First wife:
Charlotte Parker (–d. 21 April 1845, Surabaya)

Second wife: Ellen Scott (m. September 1846–d. 6 September 1899, Singapore)17



Author

Gracie Lee



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