Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Old Protestant Cemetery (simplified Chinese: 基督教坟场; traditional Chinese: 基督教墳場, Portuguese: Cemitério Protestante), located close to the Casa Garden, was established by the British East India Company in 1821 in Macau in response to a lack of burial sites for Protestants in the Roman Catholic Portuguese colony.It is the last resting place of the artist George Chinnery, missionaries Robert Morrison and Samuel Dyer (his wife Maria is buried at the Old Protestant Cemetery in Penang), Royal Navy captain Henry John Spencer-Churchill (son of the 5th Duke of Marlborough and great-great-grand-uncle of Winston Churchill) and US Naval Lieutenant Joseph Harod Adams (grandson of the second president of the United States, John Adams, and nephew of the sixth, John Quincy Adams). Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, a captain in the Royal Navy, is also buried here.In 2005, the cemetery was officially enlisted as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Center of Macau.. }
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- Old_Protestant_Cemetery_(Macau) abstract "The Old Protestant Cemetery (simplified Chinese: 基督教坟场; traditional Chinese: 基督教墳場, Portuguese: Cemitério Protestante), located close to the Casa Garden, was established by the British East India Company in 1821 in Macau in response to a lack of burial sites for Protestants in the Roman Catholic Portuguese colony.It is the last resting place of the artist George Chinnery, missionaries Robert Morrison and Samuel Dyer (his wife Maria is buried at the Old Protestant Cemetery in Penang), Royal Navy captain Henry John Spencer-Churchill (son of the 5th Duke of Marlborough and great-great-grand-uncle of Winston Churchill) and US Naval Lieutenant Joseph Harod Adams (grandson of the second president of the United States, John Adams, and nephew of the sixth, John Quincy Adams). Humphrey Fleming Senhouse, a captain in the Royal Navy, is also buried here.In 2005, the cemetery was officially enlisted as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Center of Macau.".