Walter Henry Medhurst, a London-born missionary to China, was the first editor-in-chief of the paper.
Medhurst was ordained at Malacca in 1819, and engaged in missionary labours, first at Penang, then at Batavia - and finally, when peace was concluded with China in 1842, at Shanghai where he founded the London Missionary Society Press (墨海書館) together with William Muirhead, Joseph Edkins, and William Charles Milne.
Walter Henry Medhurst (1796–1857), English Congregationalist missionary to China
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