Thursday 27 March 2008

Scots in Imperial China

Scots in Imperial China: biographies and bibliography

Governors/Adiminstrators/Cadets of Hong Kong:
1. Sir Charles Elliot (1801-1875), cousin of the Scottish diplomat Gilbert Elliott, 1st Earl of Minto (1751-1814) and grandson of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet (1722-1777), 3rd Baronet of Minto
2. Malcolm Struan Tonnochy (1841-?)
3. Sir Wilsone Black (1837-1909)
4. Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart (1858-1937)
5. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874-1938)
6. Sir Murray MacLehose (1917-2000)
7. Lord Wilson of Tillyorn (1935-)

1. William Jardine (1784–1843), founder of Jardine Matheson
2. James Matheson (1796-1878), founder of Jardine Matheson
3. Robert Morrison (1782-1834)
4. William Milne (1785-1822)
5. John Robert Morrison (1814-1843)
6. James Legge (1815-1897)
7. Dr. John Dudgeon (1837-1901)
8. John Thomson (1837-1921)
9. Sir James Haldane Stewart-Lockhart (1858–1937)
10. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874–1938)
11. Sir Patrick Manson (1884-1922)
12. Thomas Ash Lane, founder of Lane Crawford
13. Ninian Crawford, founder of Lane Crawford
14. William Keswick (1834-1912)
15. James Johnstone Keswick (1845-1914)
16. Henry Keswick (1870-1928)
17. William Johnstone Keswick (1903-1990)
18. John Keswick (1906-1982)
19. Robert George Shewan (1859–1934)
20. Thomas Augustus Gibb, founder of Gibb, Livingston and Co. 仁記洋行
21. William Potter Livingston, founder of Gibb, Livingston and Co.
22. Douglas Lapraik (1818-1869)
23. Leonard Just
24. Thomas Sutherland (1834-1922), founder of HSBC
25. William Adamson, Borneo Co., Ltd. 搬鳥洋行
26. John Burd (1794-1855), John Burd and Co. 畢洋行
27. J. Innes (1787-1841), founder of Innes, Fletcher & Co.
28. Robert Fortune (1812-1880)
29. Robert Strachan, editor of Hongkong Register

Have a look on The Hongkong Directory: With List of Foreign Residents in China (1859) will understand why the Scots made Hong Kong.

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Bibliography:
David Harris, Of Battle and Beauty: Felice Beato’s Photographs of China (Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999).
Edward M. Spiers, The Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854-1902 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006).
J. Y. Wong, Deadly Dreams: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Patrick Manson Biography (1884-1922) Wiki and http://www.faqs.org/health/bios/50/Patrick-Manson.html

For Dr. John Dudgeon and John Thomson , see
Nick Pearce, 'A Life in Peking: The Peabody Albums'
Nick Pearce, Photographs of Peking, China: 1861-1908 (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005).


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