William Henry Roberts

William Henry Roberts (25 October 1847 – 24 December 1919) was a Baptist minister from the United States who worked for many years as a missionary in Burma.

[1] He served under Confederate General Robert E. Lee with the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.

[1] On his arrival in Burma, Roberts obtained grudging permission from the Burmese king, Thibaw Min, to build a school and educate the Kachins.

Roberts bought a buffalo skin, cut it into thin strips and used it to measure out the mission compound.

[3] Roberts was followed by the Swedish-American missionary Ola Hanson, who arrived in 1890 and did much work in compiling a grammar and dictionary for their Jinghpaw language, and in translating hymns and the Bible into Jingpaw.