RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1982
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J. H. HAAN

APPENDIX

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP 1849-1865

Note: Dates after the term of office refer to the Public Meeting at which the Municipal Council was elected.

  
    Members
    Firm
    Nationality
  
  
    
    Russell & Co. Rathbones
    American
British
  
  
    1851 (June)
    
    
  
  
    
    MacVicar & Co.
J. M. Smith & Co.
Wetmore & Co.
    American
British
American
  
  
    1849 (March) — 1850 (August)
(10.3.1849)
    
    
  
  
    John N. Alsop Griswold
Thomas Moncreiff
    
    
  
  
    1850 (August)
(2.8.1850)
    
    
  
  
    Hector C. R. MacDuff
J. Mackrill Smith
Oliver Everett Roberts
    
    
  
  
    1851 (June) — 1852 (May)
(14.6.1851)
    
    
  
  
    Edward Langley Clement
D. Nye
William Seton Brown
    Oriental Bank
Bull, Nye & Co. Rathbones
    British
American
British
  
  
    1852 (May) — 1853 (July)
(25.5.1852)
    
    
  
  
    William Hogg
Edward Cunningham (Chairman)
    Russell & Co.
    American
  
  
    
    Lindsay & Co.
Blenkin, Rawson & Co.
    British
British
  
  
    William Kay
    
    
  
  
    1853 (July) — 1854 (July)
(21.7.1853)
    
    
  
  
    William Shephard Wetmore
    Wetmore & Co.
    American
  
  
    
    Shaw, Bland & Co.
    British?
  
  
    (Chairman)
John Hammond Winch
J. Caldecott Smith
    
    
  
  
    1854 (July) — 1855 (March)
(11.7.1854)
    
    
  
  
    William Seton Brown (Chairman) x
David O. King (Treasurer) x
Edward Cunningham
Charles A. Fearon
William Kay
Dr. Walter Henry Medhurst x
John Skinner
    Dent, Beale & Co.
Birley, Worthington & Co.
King & Co.
Russell & Co.
Aug. Heard & Co.
Blenkin, Rawson & Co.
London Missionary Society
Gibb, Livingston & Co.
    British
British
?
American
American
British
British
British
  

Note: In March 1855 only those members marked "x" were still in office,
plus: H.C.R. MacDuff,
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RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984
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LANGLEY, Edward 1851-1852

Manager of the Oriental Banking Co.

LATIMER, Nichol 1865

Born 1830, died 1865.

With 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,

He was one of the managers of the Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. 1865.130

Member of the NCBRAS 1865.131

Publisher 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.

He was buried at Shantung Road Cemetery.

MACDUFF, Hector C.R. 1850-1851, (1854-1855)

Mercantile 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.

MAN, James Lawrence 1856-1857

At first lived in Canton.136

135

137

Authorized 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

140

Trustee British Episcopal Church 1855-1856, 1856-1857 and 1857.141 Portrait.

MEDHURST, Dr. Walter Henry 1854-1855

Born 1796, died 1857.

Sent 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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