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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
CAPTAIN SAMUEL CORNEL PLANT, MASTER MARINER AND SENIOR INSPECTOR, UPPER YANGTZE RIVER,
CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS
A.C. BROMFIELD WITH ROSEMARY LEE
How it started!
Grave Number 8496 28479
Section 12
Hong Kong Cemetery
In memory of Captain Samuel Cornell Plant Upper Yangtze River Inspector of the Chinese Maritime Customs
The first to command a merchant steamer plying the river (1900). Born Framlingham Suffolk 8th August 1866 Died at sea 26th February 1921
Also in memory of Alice Sophia Plant, Captain Plant's wife and devoted companion throughout his 20 years of toil on the dangerous section
of the Yangtze River between Ichang and Chunking. Born 29th November 1870. Died at Hong Kong 28th February 1921.
(Restored by members of the Merchant Navy Guild, Hong Kong 1957. Researched by
Rosemary J. Pyatt, 23rd December 1997)
Archibald Little and the Three Gorges
In 1859, a young Scot named Archibald Little, (he was a very large man), started working as a tea-taster for a German company in Kiukiang. He came of a prominent, expatriate, Shanghai family, one of his brothers being a doctor in Shanghai and another the editor of the North China Daily News. He soon became bored with tea-tasting and set up in business for himself, becoming interested in many aspects of trade, brokering and insurance. He was one of the first expatriates to