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        "content_text": "62\n\nJ. H. HAAN\n\nAPPENDIX\n\nMUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP 1849-1865\n\nNote: Dates after the term of office refer to the Public Meeting at which the Municipal Council was elected.\n\n  \n    Members\n    Firm\n    Nationality\n  \n  \n    \n    Russell & Co. Rathbones\n    American\nBritish\n  \n  \n    1851 (June)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    MacVicar & Co.\nJ. M. Smith & Co.\nWetmore & Co.\n    American\nBritish\nAmerican\n  \n  \n    1849 (March) — 1850 (August)\n(10.3.1849)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    John N. Alsop Griswold\nThomas Moncreiff\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1850 (August)\n(2.8.1850)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hector C. R. MacDuff\nJ. Mackrill Smith\nOliver Everett Roberts\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1851 (June) — 1852 (May)\n(14.6.1851)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Edward Langley Clement\nD. Nye\nWilliam Seton Brown\n    Oriental Bank\nBull, Nye & Co. Rathbones\n    British\nAmerican\nBritish\n  \n  \n    1852 (May) — 1853 (July)\n(25.5.1852)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    William Hogg\nEdward Cunningham (Chairman)\n    Russell & Co.\n    American\n  \n  \n    \n    Lindsay & Co.\nBlenkin, Rawson & Co.\n    British\nBritish\n  \n  \n    William Kay\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1853 (July) — 1854 (July)\n(21.7.1853)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    William Shephard Wetmore\n    Wetmore & Co.\n    American\n  \n  \n    \n    Shaw, Bland & Co.\n    British?\n  \n  \n    (Chairman)\nJohn Hammond Winch\nJ. Caldecott Smith\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1854 (July) — 1855 (March)\n(11.7.1854)\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    William Seton Brown (Chairman) x\nDavid O. King (Treasurer) x\nEdward Cunningham\nCharles A. Fearon\nWilliam Kay\nDr. Walter Henry Medhurst x\nJohn Skinner\n    Dent, Beale & Co.\nBirley, Worthington & Co.\nKing & Co.\nRussell & Co.\nAug. Heard & Co.\nBlenkin, Rawson & Co.\nLondon Missionary Society\nGibb, Livingston & Co.\n    British\nBritish\n?\nAmerican\nAmerican\nBritish\nBritish\nBritish\n  \n\nNote: In March 1855 only those members marked \"x\" were still in office,\nplus: H.C.R. MacDuff,",
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-1984",
        "page_number": 238,
        "title": "RAS-1984",
        "content_text": "217\n\nLANGLEY, Edward 1851-1852\n\nManager of the Oriental Banking Co.\n\nLATIMER, Nichol 1865\n\nBorn 1830, died 1865.\n\nWith Archibald Little and John Nutt he was the founder of a firm that operated in Shanghai under the name of Nichol Latimer & Co. in Kiukiang and Chinkiang as Latimer, Little & Co, from January 1, 1864,\n\nHe was one of the managers of the Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. 1865.130\n\nMember of the NCBRAS 1865.131\n\nPublisher of the North China Herald 1863-1865, in the issue of which of September 30, 1865 his death (on Sept. 28), due to an overdose of morphia, was announced.\n\nHe was buried at Shantung Road Cemetery.\n\nMACDUFF, Hector C.R. 1850-1851, (1854-1855)\n\nMercantile assistant MacVicar & Co.133, later partner in Smith, Kennedy & Co. in which his interest ended June 30, 1855.134 Trustee British Episcopal Church 1854-1855.\n\nMAN, James Lawrence 1856-1857\n\nAt first lived in Canton.136\n\n135\n\n137\n\nAuthorized to sign for George Barnet & Co. March 31, 1865, the date on which that firm moved to Shanghai; partner from August 6, 1855;135 interest ended March 31, 1862.139\n\n140\n\nTrustee British Episcopal Church 1855-1856, 1856-1857 and 1857.141 Portrait.\n\nMEDHURST, Dr. Walter Henry 1854-1855\n\nBorn 1796, died 1857.\n\nSent out by the London Missionary Society to the Far East, where he lived in Malacca and Batavia before taking up residence in",
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