George Macartney (British consul)

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Sir George Macartney should not be confused with his kinsman George Macartney, an earlier British statesman.
Sir George Macartney & Chinese Officials, Kashgar, 1915

Sir George Macartney

Macartney-MacDonald Line as the boundary between China and India in Aksai Chin
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Macartney was born at

Halliday Macartney, was a member of the same family as George Macartney, the 18th century British ambassador to China, and his mother was a near relative of Lar Wang, one of the leaders of the Taiping rebellion.[3]

Macartney married Catherine Borland in 1898.

archaeologists who found the library at Dunhuang.[5] The Macartneys had three children.[6]

The Macartneys retired to Jersey in the Channel Islands, where they were trapped by the German occupation during World War II. Macartney died on Jersey, just a few days after the German surrender.

The grave of Sir George Macartney

Writings

“Earthquakes in Kashgar”, in: The Geographical Journal, vol. 20, No. 4 (Oct. 1902), pp. 463-464

“Notices, from Chinese Sources, on the Ancient Kingdom of Lau-lan, or Shen-shen”, in: The Geographical Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, March 1903, pp. 260-265

“Eastern Turkestan: The Chinese as Rulers over an Alien Race”, in: Proceedings of the Central Asian Society, London, 1909

“Chinese Turkistan: Past and Present”, in: Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, vol. 22, 1917-1919, 534-536 [Lecture of Friday, May 9, 1919]

“Bolshevism as I saw it at Tashkent in 1918”, in: Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, vol. 7, Nos. 2-3, 1920, p. 42-58

„Sin-Kiang. Mongols and Moslems of Chinese Turkistan”, in: Peoples of all Nations: Their Life Today and Story of Their Past, ed. Sir John Alexander Hammerton, vol. 6, 1922, 4649-4672

“Where Three Empires Meet”, in: Countries of the World described by the Leading Travel Writers of the Day. Vol. 6. Siberia to Zanzibar, ed. John Alexander Hammerton, London 1926, S. 4025–4045

References

  1. ^ Skrine (1973), pp. 208-09
  2. ^ "Li Hung Chang's Godson". Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser. 23 April 1909. Retrieved 30 August 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ Sir Clarmont Skrine & Dr. Pamela Nightingale, Macartney at Kashgar: New Light on British, Chinese and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918 (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1973)
  4. ^ Skrine (1973), p. 102
  5. ^ Isabel Montgomery, "Hear This," The Guardian (London), Oct. 8, 1999.
  6. ^ Skrine (1973), p. vii

Bibliography

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