RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v 18 LINDSAY RIDE Dr. Robert Morrison. It is easily found, for if one continues straight on through the terrace from the end of the path one comes upon it amongst a group of altar tombs in the south-east corner of the cemetery. Morrison was a member of the London Missionary Society and was the first Protestant missionary in China, arriving from England via the States in 1807. He was a great Chinese scholar, wrote a Chinese grammar, compiled an English-Cantonese dictionary, and, along with a colleague, translated the whole Bible into Chinese. He became the indispensable interpreter and translator of the Select Committee of the East India Company, was taken by Lord Amherst in that capacity on his embassy to Peking in 1816, and was appointed in 1834 by Lord Napier to his staff when he assumed office in place of the East India Company in China. In 1825 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in virtue of his outstanding scholastic achievements, and was also a member of the society under whose auspices we meet tonight — the Royal Asiatic Society. Morrison was buried alongside his wife, and next to her lies their very gifted son, John Robert Morrison, who died just as he was appointed the first Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong. Nearby lies another colleague from the same missionary society, Samuel Dyer, who did much to introduce metallic movable type to replace wooden blocks in the printing of Chinese books and tracts. Along the eastern wall are to be found a number of members of East India Company families, and in the second row parallel to this wall is the second most frequently photographed memorial in the cemetery, that of Sir Winston Churchill's great-great-grand uncle, the 4th son of the 5th Duke of Marlborough, Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill, Captain, R.N. Near him lies a group of naval officers—Lieut. John Astell, Lieut. FitzGerald of the H.M.S. Modeste, and Captain Sir Humphrey le Fleming Senhouse, Senior Naval Officer in the China Seas during the attack on Canton in 1841. The most conspicuous monument in the whole of the cemetery is a tall column near the north wall. It commemorates the life and death of Captain John Crockett who must have made a fortune when in command for some years of an opium storeship at Lintin. Nearby lies one of America's great ambassadors, Edmund Roberts, who served in the West Indies, South America, Muscat, Zanzibar, ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v PROTESTANT CEMETERY IN MACAO 19 Cochin China, Siam, and who died in Macao while en route to Japan in an attempt to open that country to American trade. To the south of Crockett is Ljungstedt, a Swedish merchant, a philanthropist, an educationalist, and a Knight of Wasa, and alongside him are three small humble altar-tombs of the three children of an American girl, Caroline Shillaber of Danvers, Massachusetts, who married an English doctor, Thomas Richardson Colledge in Macao in 1833. After their return to England in 1838/39, Dr. Colledge practised his profession in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, for about forty years, and both he and his wife are buried in the churchyard of the small village of Shurdington just outside Cheltenham. Their tombstone supplied us with the Christian names of one of their children buried in Macao whose memorial does not give the child's name, for it merely refers to "the infant son of" Dr. and Mrs. Colledge. The name was Lancelot Dent, the head of a famous merchant house here in those days. One cannot mention Mrs. Colledge without referring also to her school friend Harriet Low. She came out to Macao in 1829 as a companion to her aunt. Her uncle was William Henry Low, head of the American firm of Russell & Co. Together they all three left Macao to return to the States in 1834, but the uncle died in Cape Town while on the journey home. Harriet, fortunately for us, kept a diary from the day she left Massachusetts, and it gives us most valuable information of the community life in Macao in the early thirties, as well as of many of the individual members of the community itself. Along the eastern wall near the north-east corner of the Lower Terrace is the grave of another Boston merchant, Captain Nathaniel Kinsman. His wife too was a diarist, but whereas Harriet looked at everything through the sparkling and bewitching eyes of a gaiety-loving girl of twenty-one, Rebecca Kinsman viewed the life amongst the members of this predominantly masculine society from the viewpoint of a married middle-aged Quakeress. Yet a third feminine writer to whom we also owe much was the widow of Dr. Robert Morrison. She wrote a biography of her husband which was published in two volumes, and although it necessarily deals mainly with the Morrison family, it nevertheless gives much information too about their contemporaries in Macao. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v PROTESTANT CEMETERY IN MACAO APPENDIX 21 Below are two lists of those known, or believed, to have been buried in the cemetery or memorialized in its Chapel. The first list is arranged alphabetically, and the second according to the numerical order used in the official list in the Chapel. The first list gives the location and number of the memorial, while the second gives in addition the sex, age at death, date of death and nationality. In those cases where the exact age is not known and it is certain that the individual was an adult, the evidence is given in brackets e.g. Able-seaman, Ship's captain, &c. "40+" means "40 at least". The following abbreviations are used; LIST I U = Upper Terrace; L = Lower Terrace; C = Chapel. A. ADAMS, Joseph Harod ALLEYN, Frederick Perceval ASTELL, John B. BACON, Francis W. + BALLS, Sarah Anne BARNETT, William BARTON, Charles John Wood BARTON, Euphemia Isabel BATEMAN, James BATES, Edwards Whipple DEALE, Daniel BEALE, Thomas BIDDLE, George Washington BOECK, Christian BOVET, Margaret BRIDGES, Henry Gardner BROOKE, John F. BUTTIVANT, John Henry C. CAMPBELL, Archibald S. CANNING, James CAPPER, Cawthorne + 38 U 55 L +++ 131 L 59 L + 79 L 49 L -- 11 U + 12 U 121 L 2 U 160 L 159 L 58 L 46 L 105 L 4 108 L 68 L 154 L 89 L 162 L 116 L ++ 40 U +++ +++ + 133 L 94 L 96 L 95 L 22 U 100 L 10 98 L + 87 L --- + ++ ++ +++ 151 L 7 U CHINNERY, George CHURCHILL, Henry John Spencer COLLEDGE, Lancelot Dent COLLEDGE, Thomas Richardson COLLEDGE, William Shillaber COOPER, Mark Beale CROCKETT, Ann CROCKETT, Caroline Rebecca CROCKETT, John CRUTTENDEN, George CUSHMAN, Daniel +++ ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v 30 LINDSAY RIDE LOWER TERRACE Cont'd. TITOT No. Name Sex Row Age Date of Death Nationality 76. TARBOX, Hiram M Riddles 40+ 31 May 1844 Amer. 77. GANGER, Charles M Crockett Group 50 15 Oct. 1844 Amer. 78. LEATHLEY, John M Crockett Group 28 15 Jan. 1844 Br. 79. BALLS, Sarah Anne F Crockett Group 23 23 June 1844 Br. 80. SCOTLAND, Thomas M Crockett Group 21 10 July 1844 Br. 81. SPENCER, Jane F Crockett Group 29 27 Aug. 1844 Br. 82. PATERSON, Andrew M Crockett Group 43 22 July 1842 Br. 83. KENNEDY, George M Crockett Group 40 28 Sept. 1844 Br. 84. FEARON, Elizabeth F Crockett Group 43 31 March 1838 Br. 85. ORTON, Maria J. F Crockett Group 21 23 Sept. 1839 Amer. 86. MACKENZIE, Donald M Crockett Group 49 30 Oct. 1839 Br. 87. CROCKETT, John M Crockett Group 50 25 June 1837 Br. 88. ROBERTS, Edmund M Crockett Group 50 12 June 1836 Amer. 89. CAMPBELL, Archibald S. M Crockett Group 40 3 June 1836 Amer. 90. LARKINS, Edward G. M Crockett Group 28 15 June 1839 Amer. 91. MILNER, Emily F Crockett Adult Group 29 Nov. 1843 Br. 92. GILLESPIE, Elizabeth McDougal F Crockett Group 23 6 Dec. 1837 Amer. 93. TURNER, Richard M Crockett Group 53 28 March 1839 Br. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v PROTESTANT CEMETERY IN MACAO 31 LOWER TERRACE Cont'd. No. Name Sex Row Age Date of Death Nationality 94. COLLEDGE, Lancelot Dent M Crockett Group 7/12 16 Dec. 1838 Br. 95. COLLEDGE, William Shillaber M Crockett Group 15/12 29 Sept. 1838 Br. 96. COLLEDGE, Thomas Richardson M Crockett Group 10/12 26 July 1837 Br. 97. DANIELL, Edmond Murray M Crockett Group 8/12 15 May 1836 Br. 98. CROCKETT, Caroline Rebecca F Crockett 5 Group 21 Dec. 1835 Br. 99. SENN VAN BASEL, Hugo Rudolph Jacobus M Crockett Group 2 days 20 June 1839 Dut. 100. CROCKETT, Ann F Crockett Group 21 days 21 July 1835 Br. 101. T. ? Crockett ? Group ? ? ? 102. HIGHT, John Francis M Crockett Group Adult 9 Feb. 1844 Br. 103. HARRISON, George W. M Crockett 20 Group 6 June 1844 Amer. 104. MARKWICK, Richard M Crockett 44 Group 30 Jan. 1836 Br. 105. BOVET, Margaret F Crockett 23 Group 6 Jan. 1837 Br. 106. REYNVANN, Clazina van Valkenburg F Crockett 24 Group 9 Nov. 1846 Dut. 107. KEY, Peter M Crockett Group 42 8 Oct. 1835 Br. 108. BRIDGES, Henry Gardner M Crockett Group 61 19 Dec. 1849 Amer. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1963 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/4m90m091v 32 LINDSAY RIDE LOWER TERRACE — Cont'd. No. Name Sex Row Age Date of Death Nationality 109. REES, Maria F Crockett Group 35 27 Dec. 1836 Br. 110. ILBERY, Frederick M Crockett Group 19 23 Nov. 1833 Br. 111. DURANT, Euphemia F Crockett Group 26 13 July 1834 Br. 112. KINSMAN, Nathaniel M Crockett Group 48 30 April 1847 Amer. 113. SUTHERLAND, Isabella F Crockett Group 31 25 May 1836 Br. 114. ZEEMAN, Bernardus M Churchill Row 54 22 July 1821 Dut. 115. URMSTON, George B. M Churchill Row 8/12 20 May 1813 Br. 116. CAPPER, Cawthorne M Churchill Row 30 14 Jan. 1844 Br. 117. WISHART, John Key M Churchill Row 33 2 Nov. 1843 Br. 118. HIGHT, James M Churchill Row 27 6 Sept. 1843 Br. 119. McCARTHY, Robert M Churchill Row 39 17 Aug. 1843 Br. 120. MORGAN, William M Churchill Row 40+ 14 July 1843 Br. 121. BATEMAN, James M Churchill Row 29 ... Br. 122. LARKINS, Henry M Churchill Row Adult 30 March 1843 Br. 123. FORREST, Andrew M Churchill Row 43 19 Jan. 1843 Br. 124. MARQUIS, William M Churchill Row 42 ... ... 125. DAVID, J. Ferdinand M Churchill Row Adult 4 Dec. 1842 Amer. 126. MARTIN, Robert Francis M Churchill Row 42 25 Oct. 1842 Br. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1972 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/gm80qf99h 28 P. H. COLLIN NOTES 1 Wingrove Cooke, China, London, 1858. p. 254. 2 Ibid., p. 279. 3 This was J. Scarth, who in 1860 published Twelve Years in China, illustrated from his own sketches. In this work Scarth has little to say of the events in Canton during the Arrow War, pointing out that the subject had been fully treated by Wingrove Cooke. 4 Albert Smith, To China and Back, London, 1859, p. 27. 5 J. Dyer Ball, Things Chinese, 1900 edition, p. 38, gives the following description. "Gingals, or Jingals, are long tapering guns, six to fourteen feet in length, borne on the shoulders of two men and fired by a third. They have a stand, or tripod, resembling one of a telescope”. 6 Lt. Col. Fisher, Three Years' Service in China, London, 1863 p. 25. 7 Ibid., p. 72. 8 E. Fraser & L. G. Carr-Laughton, The Royal Marine Artillery. 1804-1923, London, 1930, p. 459. I am indebted to Miss J. S. Crockett of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, for drawing my attention to this work. 9 Ibid., p. 462. 10 Cooke, op. cit., p. 329. 11 Fisher, op. cit., p. 4. 12 Parliamentary papers on Lord Elgin's mission to China. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1983 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/j9607p61v 232 p. 109. Yang, C. K., Religion, pp. 16-17. p. 110. Tawney, R. H., Land and Labour in China, London, 1932, p. 77. p. 114. Levy, Howard, S., Chinese Footbinding: the History of a Curious Erotic Custom, Tokyo, 1966, p. 56. p. 116. Doolittle, Social Life, Vol II, p. 198. p. 116. Little, Mrs. Archibald, In the Land of the Blue Gown, London, 1912, p. 209. p. 121. Yang, Martin C., A Chinese Village: Taitou, Shantung Province, London, 1948, pp. 239-240. p. 130. Smith, Arthur H., Characteristics, p. 254. p. 130. Huc, M., The Chinese Empire, London, 1859, pp. 298-299. p. 136. De Groot, Religious System, Vol II, p. 793. p. 137. Arlington, Dragon's Eyes, p. 158. p. 140. Smith, Arthur H., Characteristics, p. 275. p. 141. Graham, David Crockett, Folk Religion in Southwest China, Washington, 1961, p. 123. p. 146. Forster, L., Echoes of Hong Kong and Beyond, Hong Kong, 1933, p. 52. p. 147. Peplow and Barker, Around and About, pp. 176-177. p. 150. Smith, D. Howard, Religions, p. 102. p. 152. De Groot, Religious System, Vol I, p. 271. p. 152. Welch, Holmes, The Practice of Chinese Buddhism, 1900-1950, Harvard, 1967, p. 343. p. 152. Ng Shing Kup, The Great Events of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, Hong Kong, 1973, pp. 40-41. p. 156. Cormack, Birthday etc. Customs, p. 26. p. 158. Bredon and Mitrophanow, Moon Year, pp. 427-428. p. 158. Doolittle, Social Life, Vol II, p. 70. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1987 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/rx919b522 106 BRYCE, Louise W 9.12.1912 BUCHANAN, Charles 11.9.1873 BURDETT, Frederick 24.1.1940 BUCHANAN, Archibald 21.7.1909 BULLEN, Arthur Pearce 23.3.1905 BURDETT, Jane Cerile 31.5.1909 Deane BURNETT, Edward 8.5.1936 BUTTNER, Albert 31.1.1907 CADDEM, Patrick 14.9.1906 CAGLI, Augusto 21.5.1888 Rattway CAMPION, Thomas 20.7.1864 CARTER, Bessie Ann 16.12.1942 CHALMERS, Frank 5.8.1958 CHAMBERS, Elizabeth 27.2.1917 Morton CHAPMAN, Henry 14.3.1883 CHEEL, James 18.3.1923 Grafton CLARKE, Edgar 18.10.1901 CLEAR, Charles Arnold 5.2.1945 Charles CLELAND, William 20.8.1937 COATES, John H 5.5.1902 Alexander COLEMAN, John 30.5.1904 COLLER, 1st infant son 6.11.1872 of Richard Lovett COLLER, 2nd infant 1.4.1874 son of Richard Lovett COLLETT, Henry 18.8.1903 George Outram CONGDON, Jane E 19.2.1898 COOK, CJ 12.9.1946 COOKE, Doris Ann 17.10.1942 COTEZ, Frank 5.8.1918 CRICHTON, Lloyd 18.7.1945 CROCKETT, LS Not known James CUNNEEN, Miss E F 12.5.1950 CURRY, Charles 7.9.1903 DAKIN, George J 2.7.1883 DALE, CE 30.5.1904 DAMASKOS, Nikolas 17.12.1962 DAVIS, Thomas 28.10.1883 DEBLOIS, John Emory 3.8.1874 DEBRUNNER, Alphons 11.2.1952 DECKER, Ernest DENNISON, William 5.10.1882 DE HASS, Theodorus 17.8.1909 Marie 25.7.1904 DEWHURST, Fred 25.12.1915 DICKINSON, John 3.5.1949 DONISCH, Arthur 24.2.1883 Herbert DORRINGTON, Nellie 16.9.1902 DOS REMEDIOS, Mary 10.8.1961 Paz DOS REMEDIOS, Jose 22.8.1962 Florencio DOS REMEDIOS, Pacita Godinez 3.1968 DREYFUS, Ernest 2.9.1906 DUDLEY, Infant 14.2.1880 Gustav DUFF, William Aitken 20.3.1902 DUKE, John 14.4.1939 DUMARES, John 22.7.1922 DUNCAN, William 27.7.1899 Saumarez Cunning DUNN, JC J 10.4.1949 DYKES, Oswald S 19.1.1930 EATON, Red Campbell 21.4.1877 EDWARDS, John E 26.10.1924 EHLERS, J G 1.11.1878 ELERTIS, Nicholas 21.6.1964 ELLAMS, John David 11.5.1946 ELZINGER, Auguste 26.4.1879 ENTICKNAP, G H 27.5.1915 EWART, Henry 9.7.1894 FABIAN, Adolf 29.4.1886 FAIRCLOUGH, Ferdinand J 5.7.1897 FALKNER, Samuel 27.4.1903 FALLOT, Lymae 11.7.1919 William FARREN, John W 23.8.1864 FARNES, Walter S 7.6.1942 FEELDING, Susie 15.1.1939 FERBER, Johann 8.1.1890 Bernard ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1988 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ft84gb83q 172 teachers. Miss McCorriston, the geography teacher, inspired me to devote much time at home in drawing and colouring maps to pinpoint certain places. Miss Kelley determined that we should know English grammar backwards and forwards and had us forever parsing and diagramming. Miss Davis was an avid horsewoman who stood tall and erect as she whipped up our speed in doing arithmetic mentally while she called out the numbers in quick succession. I cannot recall what Mrs. Crockett taught, but it was in her class that Miss Daniels (who was later married to Charles King), a part-Hawaiian singer of some size and weight and exuding the warmth and joviality of her race, came once in several weeks to lead us in singing Hawaiian songs, using a tuning fork to keep us in key. I cannot recall who my history teacher was. Last but not least of the teachers was Miss Gertrude Whiteman, quite elderly and often the butt of laughter from some of the girls when she adjusted her wig. She was especially kind to me, probably because she knew my Father and also had special affection for the Chinese, having raised a Chinese girl as her foster child. I missed four months of the last year because of our trip to China, but I was able to graduate with the rest of my classmates in June, 1920. The transition from elementary to secondary school was not easy. There was much less involvement between teacher and student, and the relationship between them was quite impersonal. As a freshman, I was completely crushed by my English teacher, Dorothy Stendahl, who was also my Sunday School teacher and an intimate friend of Mary Lam, one of my early playmates. Miss Stendahl selected many of us Chinese for her class. She was not only stern and exacting, but also very sarcastic, and I felt she was picking on me unnecessarily. As a result, I had a miserable year and dreaded going to her class. Some years later, I had occasion to meet her socially, but I could not warm to her. Perhaps she did not realize that I had come from a protected home, was exceedingly shy and sensitive, and was not able to deal with aggressive mannerisms. I had two years of Latin with Clara Ziegler, who would urge me on with my translation of Caesar in Gaul by jabbing her left palm with a finger of her right hand in rapid succession and would finally comment, in frustration, "You are not like Me Lan!" My sister had preceded me in her class and had been an excellent student. To myself, I would respond, "Who wants to be like Me Lan?" It was poor psychology on Miss Ziegler's part, as it only made me more determined to prove myself. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1988 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ft84gb83q 187 Municipal Council, 718 volumes and pamphlets were purchased from Wylie for Tls 1,767.50 to form the nucleus of the society's library. The Shanghai Municipal Council stipulated that the society would be responsible for providing “suitable rooms and a librarian”, and should they fail to do so, the books would be given to another organization. O. R. Crockett was appointed the "honorary librarian" in 1864, the first of at least twenty-eight people to hold this office. Over the years they represented at least four nations, England, the United States, Germany, and France. The third librarian, the American-born Frenchman Henri Cordier who compiled the monumental Bibliotheca Sinica, was the real founding father of the library. Unlike many members of the society, Cordier was a young man newly arrived in China, and full of both curiosity and energy. He immediately struck up a friendship with Wylie and was instrumental in the transfer of his books to the library. His first task for the society was to compile a catalogue of its recently assembled collection. As he recalled later: On the first of April, 1871, Mr. Ney Ellis, then a merchant, took me to the library, which was indeed in a most dilapidated state in a large room of the Commercial Bank Building... I began at once the Catalogue of the books, which was published the next year (1872) at the Ching-Foong General Printing Office. This catalogue showed 1,300 titles in Western languages, arranged according to Klaproth's classification, "at least in its principal divisions", with Wylie's books noted with asterisks. Not catalogued were an additional 1,023 volumes in Chinese, mostly from Wylie, and the **Transactions of Learned Societies and Periodical Publications, which form one of the most important classes of the Library**. Cordier noted in the preface: However valuable this collection may be, its deficiency is very great; and many a volume which an Orientalist ought to find is sought in vain through the pages of the Catalogue. Now that the paucity of our resources is known, no doubt people will come forward and help us fill the blanks. ================================================================================