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        "content_text": "216\n\nFABER, Mrs G.A.G. FAWCETT, Mr B.C. FRASER, Mr A.P. GALVIN, Mr J.A.T.\n\nGEORGE, Mr Timothy J.B. GIEDROYC, Mr Michael J.H. GOLDNEY, Miss C.M. HARDEN, Mrs Guy T., Jr. HAYDON, Mr E.S. HECHTEL, Mr F.O.P. HOWARTH, Mr Richard H. HUGHES, Mrs Marion HURT, Miss Evelyn J. INGLES, Miss Jean M. IRETON, Mrs Polly H. JOHNSTON, Mr James J. JORDAN, Dr David K. KIDD, Mr S.T.\n\n7\n\nKNOWLES, Miss Moria G. KNOWLES, Mrs W.C.G. KURATA, Mrs Lucien LANCHESTER Mrs G.W. LAUFER, Mr E.M. LAUFER, Mrs B.M. LI, DR Choh-Ming LINDSAY, Mr T.J. LOTHROP, Mr Francis B. MANSFIELD, Miss M.B. MICHAELIONES, Miss E.O. MILL, Major C.S., USMC MILLER, Mr Carl F.O. NICHOLS, The Hon. Mr E.H. O'BRIEN, Father J.R. PLAG, Rev. Albrecht POLAND, Mr Thomas D. RITCHIE, Mr Douglas J. ROBINSON, Prof. K.E. ROTHE, Mr Ulrich. SINFIELD, Mr G.HC. SPERRY, Mr Henry M. STEVENS, Mr Keith G. SWIRE, Mr A.C.\n\nTILL, The Very Rev. Barry TURNER, Sir Michael WARD, Miss Janet E.A. WELCH, Mr Holmes H. WHITELEGGE, Mr D.S. WOLF, Mr John\n\nORDINARY OVERSEAS MEMBERS\n\nANDERSON, Dr Eugene N., Jr.\n\nBARR, Mr J.W. BEVERIDGE, Mr R.J. BOND, Mr Michael W. CHAR, Mr Tin Yuke CHINN, Mrs Caroline Lee CLARK, Mrs A.T. COOPER, Dr Eugene\n\nDE FAZIO, Mr & Mrs M.F. EASTON, Ms. Linda\n\nFESSLER, Mr Loren FITZGIBBON, Mr Desmond GARD, Dr Richard A.\n\nGILMAN, Ms Claudia\n\nGOODRICH, Prof. L. Carrington\n\nHARRISON, Prof, B.\n\nHEMMING, Miss Janet M. HODGSON, Mr A.F.\n\nHODGSON, Mrs Kirsty Hamilton HOGAN, Mr James HUYSMAN, Mr J.\n\nKNEEBONE, Mrs Susan\n\nKRAMERS, Dr R.P. LIU, Prof. Ts'un Yan LU, Mrs Sylvia MACLEAN, Mr Roderick MATHIAS, Dr John R.G. McCOY, Mr John\n\nMORGAN, Mrs Carole MYERS, Mr John T. PARR, Mr M.J.\n\nREDFERN, Mr O'Donnell S. REID, Mr A.J.H. SCHWARZER, Mr C.A. SELWYN, Mr J.B. SMITH, Dr Ralph B. STEEDS, Mr David\n\nSTOKES, Mr John\n\nSTRAUCH, Dr Judith STURM, Prof. Fred Gillette VILLIERS, Dr John WATSON, Dr James L. WICKBERG, Professor Edgar",
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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-1982",
        "page_number": 85,
        "title": "RAS-1982",
        "content_text": "63\n\nNationality\n\nMembers\n\n1855 (March)—1856 (January)\n\n(23.3.1855)\n\nWilliam Shephard Wetmore\n\nWilliam Thorburn\n\nWilliam Herbert Vacher\n\nHenry Alexander Ince\n\nClement D. Nye\n\n1856 (January)—1857 (January)\n\n(14.1.1856)\n\nGeorge Griswold Gray\n\n  \n    Firm\n    Nationality\n  \n  \n    Wetmore & Co.\n    American\n  \n  \n    Hargreaves & Co.\n    British\n  \n  \n    Gilman, Bowman, Dent, Beale & Co.\n    American\n  \n  \n    Bull, Nye & Co.\n    British\n  \n  \n    (Treasurer)\n    \n  \n  \n    James Lawrence Man\n    \n  \n  \n    Andrew Arch. Ranken\n    \n  \n\n1857 (January) — 1858 (February)\n\n(31.1.1857)\n\nGeorge Watson Coutts\n\nHugh Bold Gibb\n\nCharles W. Orne\n\n  \n    Russell & Co.\n    American\n  \n  \n    Geo. Barnet & Co.\n    ?\n  \n  \n    Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n    British\n  \n  \n    Watson & Co.\n    British\n  \n  \n    Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n    British\n  \n  \n    Russell & Co.\n    American\n  \n\nNote: In February 1858 G. W. Coutts is no longer mentioned as member.\n\n1858 (February) — 1859 (February)\n\n(4.2.1858)\n\nWilliam Wetmore Cryder\n\nHugh Bold Gibb\n\nJohn Thorne\n\nNote: In February 1859 only J. Thorne is mentioned as member.\n\n1859 (February) — 1860 (February)\n\n(31.1.1859)\n\nRobert Reid (Chairman)\n\nWilliam Wetmore Cryder\n\n  \n    Wetmore, Williams & Co.\n    American\n  \n  \n    Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n    British\n  \n  \n    ?\n    ?\n  \n  \n    Birley, Worthington & Co.\n    British\n  \n  \n    (Treasurer)\n    \n  \n  \n    Hubert Marshall Murray Gray\n    \n  \n  \n    Wetmore, Williams & Co.\n    American\n  \n  \n    Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n    British\n  \n\n1860 (February) — 1861 (February)\n\n(15.2.1860)\n\nRowland Hamilton (Chairman)\n\n  \n    Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n    British\n  \n\nJames Whitlow (Treasurer)\n\nRichard R. Tyers\n\n  \n    Holliday, Wise & Co.\n    British\n  \n\n2\n\n  \n    British\n    2\n  \n\n1861 (February) — 1862 (April)\n\n(2.2.1861)\n\nWilliam Howard (Chairman)\n\nJ. Priestley Tate (Treasurer)\n\nChartered Bank\n\nBlain, Tate & Co.\n\n  \n    William Shephard Wetmore\n    British\n  \n  \n    ?\n    ?\n  \n  \n    Wetmore, Williams & Co.\n    American\n  \n\nNote: In April 1862 only J. P. Tate is mentioned as member.",
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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": 243,
        "title": "RAS-1984",
        "content_text": "222\n\nJ.H. HAAN\n\nTYERS, Richard R. 1860-1861\n\nEmployed by King & Co., 1855,217 Trustee Chinese Hospital 1865.218 Member Committee VI and VII.\n\nVACHER, William Herbert 1855-1856\n\n219\n\n220\n\nLived from 1844 in Canton,221 later Shanghai where he was authorized to sign for Gilman, Bowman & Co. from August 9, 1851;222 interest ceased July 2, 1860.223\n\nMember Committee to study the erection of a new building for the Shanghai Library, 1852.224\n\nMember Committee II.\n\nWETMORE, William Shephard 1853-1854, 1855-1856, 1861-1862\n\n225\n\nPartner in Wetmore & Co., from September 1, 1852,226 as from May 29, 1857 Wetmore, Williams & Co. Member of the NCBRAS till 1882.227\n\nHe still lived in Shanghai in 1890 as partner in Frazar & Co.228 Author.\n\n229\n\nWHITLOW, James 1860-1861\n\nAuthorized to sign for Holliday, Wise & Co. from March 13, 1856;230 partner January 1, 1863.231\n\nWIETERS, August 1863-1864\n\n232\n\nAuthorized to sign for the German firm of Harkort & Co. from November 23, 1861.233\n\nSource Notes\n\nAbbreviations:\n\nBS: Bibliotheca Sinica (by Henri Cordier)\n\nCK: Chinese Repository\n\nJNCBRAS: Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society\n\nNCDHL: North China Desk Hong List",
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        "content_text": "230\n\nVan Horne threatened, \"I will crush you. Don't you attempt to start a steamship line of your own. If you do, we will run you off the Pacific.\"\n\nDodwell retired from the East in 1899, the year his firm became a limited company.\n\nIt has continued to prosper. But much of its success in earlier days was due to the personal contribution of Dodwell himself. Profits increased from his shipping department. He also played a prominent part in the shipping world as a whole. G.B. Dodwell, a man of high principles, died in 1925.\n\nGilman's\n\nRichard James Gilman, a tea-taster, who worked for the old established company of Dent's in Canton, set up a partnership, known as Gilman and Bowman, in a Canton factory in 1840. By 1863 the firm was also represented at Kiukiang, Hankow and Tientsin, employing 21 staff. In many ways the firm was similar to Dodwell's, but on a smaller scale, and it was substantially involved in shipments of tea from Shanghai and Foochow in the 1870s.\n\nGilman's was also active in the import-export trade and shipping, and in 1862 it was appointed agents for Lloyd's at Canton, Hankow, Foochow, Hong Kong and Macau. In these ports its reputation in shipping circles was high, especially after the famous tea race of 1866. 'Taeping (sic) Yeung Hong' (KF) (Great Peace Foreign Firm) chartered the 'Taiping' (named after Gilmans) which beat 'Ariel', the rival ship, by 20 minutes over a 99-day voyage from Foochow to London.\n\nGilman's also played an important part in promoting the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, when it was established in 1864, and it was represented on its Board in its earlier days.\n\nGilman's failed, however, to heed the warning that there was a growing preference for Indian and Ceylon teas in Britain, and, heavily indebted to its London agent Ashton & Company, it came close to bankruptcy. Gilmans had to abandon its Shanghai and Hankow branches in the 1880s. But, with the huge demand for joss sticks in Southern China, the agency for the Australian Sandalwood Company helped",
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