RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1982
https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/mk61z420p
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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
https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572
220

J.H. HAAN

Member Committee Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society 1858.179

ROBERTS, Oliver Everett 1850-1851

181

Resident of Shanghai since 1850, before that of Canton.180 Partnership in Wetmore & Co., temporarily suspended to be renewed April 30, 1854.182

Member Committee Shanghai Library 1852;183 member Committee to study the erection of a new building for the Shanghai Library 1852.184

RODGERS, J. Kearney (or Kearny) 1863-1864

He is mentioned as “secretary” at the time of the issue of shares in the Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company, 1864.185

SKINNER, John 1854-1855

186

Resident of Canton from 1840, 1848 in Shanghai, then again in Canton.

187

Partner in Gibb, Livingston & Co. interest in which ceased December 26, 1856.188

SMITH, J. Caldecott 1853-1854

Lived in China from 1843, as early as 1844 in Shanghai. Employed by Dent, Beale & Co.190

189

He was involved in the escape of taotai Wu from the Shanghai native city when it was occupied by rebels in September 1853.191

SMITH, J. Mackrill 1850-1851

193

192

Employed by Bell & Co. at Canton from 1840;193 Shanghai 1848 as J.M. Smith & Co., from December 20, 1851 as Smith, King & Co.

194

He also sold "superior pale sherry, port and Madeira"195 and was a broker,196

Partnership ceased December 31, 1853.197 After the death of Henry Shearman, 1856, he was, as his executor, publisher and editor of the North China Herald for one month.198
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