RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1962 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/9s166f47f 100 J. W. HAYES exerts itself with unprecedented vigour and hardihood in local affairs. No dispute arises but one or more of these social pests thrusts himself forward between the contending parties, and no fraud on the revenue or wholesale extortion is free from their similar influence". Lockhart (through Governor Blake) says that the New Territory's literati "have hitherto lived by irregular "squeezes" from the people" and he blamed the opposition to British rule to them and to "gamblers and bad characters banished from Hong Kong" and not to the people who were incited by the gentry and elders. See Papers 1899 pp. 520 and 554. 26 Papers 1899 p. 194. 27 Papers 1899 p. 554. 28 Arthur H. Smith Village Life in China (Edinburgh, Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, about 1900) p. 121. 29 These affected the coastal and riverine regions of Kwangtung. See C. F. Neumann's Translations from the Chinese and Armenian with notes. 1. History of the pirates who infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810, (London, John Murray 1831). This includes, pp. 97-125, a very interesting account of an enforced stay of eleven weeks and three days with the pirate fleet in 1809 by Richard Glasbrooke, the mate of an East Indiaman. The pirates spent a considerable time on and near Lantau, which must have suffered from their depredations. The clan record of the HO family of San Tsuen, Pui O, on the south side of the island mentions pirate raids and a decision to fortify the village with walls which can still be seen, with several embrasures for cannon. Piracy continued until a much later date. The Cheung Chau police station was attacked and burnt in 1912, necessitating its removal and enlargement, one of the Cheung Chau ferries was pirated in 1923, and in 1925 a band of sixty robbers from the Delta entered Tai O by way of Po Chue Tam creek, killed a woman and made off with young men and a fair amount of booty without any difficulty. The Police Station is situated at the other end of the town and knew nothing of the attack until it was over. See Administrative Reports, District Officer, New Territories 1912, 1923 and 1925. 30 Papers 1899 p. 528. 31 Foreign Office Report 1606 on Trade of Canton 1894. 32 Salt was smuggled into China from Tai O as the government monopoly and price ring made it profitable to do so. See also Enclosure D to Sir Matthew Nathan's despatch No. 59 of 11 January 1905 in Correspondence relating to Kowloon-Canton Railway which mentions rice smuggling from Shum Chun and Deep Bay into Hong Kong. The export of rice from China was forbidden, and checked by the Imperial Maritime Customs. **F O Trade Report No. 1778 for 1895. 34 F O Trade Report No. 1983 for 1896. 33 Papers 1899, p. 540. Brenan, with his thirty-two years' service wrote feelingly "The Chinaman is happiest who never sees an official, who does not even know the name of one". J N CBRAS XXXII (1897-98) 37. 31 Foreign Office Trade Report for Canton No. 1606 for 1894. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1972 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/gm80qf99h 82 HENRY JAMES LETHBRIDGE It is an interesting comment on Johnston that he visited England only twice in twenty-eight years of residence in China. See Johnston's obituary in the Times of 8 March, 1938. 37 R. F. Johnston's, Twilight in the Forbidden City, London, 1934, describes his experiences as an Imperial tutor. 38 Much information on Johnston's experiences as District Officer and Magistrate are given in his book, Lion and Dragon in Northern China. 39 Annual Report on Weihaiwei for 1921, p. 3. 40 Annual Report on Weihaiwei for 1903, p. 5. From time to time the Magistrate's office issued proclamations in Chinese, notifying the people of the wishes of the Government. All the villages of the Territory were provided with large notice boards on which such proclamations were posted. The style of governing in Weihaiwei owed much to Chinese example. 41 Annual Report on Weihaiwei for 1904, p. 26. The statement is taken from Johnston's 'Report of the Secretary to Government for the Year 1904'. This is a most interesting report on Chinese society in Weihaiwei, 42 The China Review was founded in 1872 by N. B. Dennys. The publication terminated with vol. xxv, 1901. It was published bi-monthly. 43 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1937, pp. 391-3. 44 In his obituary notice of E. H. Parker, E. T. C. Werner wrote: "The editor's request to write this notice puts me in a rather awkward position, for I cannot but refer to the very great amount of valuable sinological work which has been done by members of the British Consular Service in China. Considering its relatively small size, the Service has produced proportionately more brilliant sinologists than any body connected with the Far East.” See Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (henceforth cited as JNCBRAS), vol. lvii, 1926, p. vi. 45 Sir Cecil Clementi (1875-1947). Educated at Oxford. Hong Kong cadet in 1899. Governor of Hong Kong 1925-30. He published, among other books, The Chinese in British Guiana, Georgetown, 1915, Cantonese Love-Songs, Oxford, 1904, and Summary of Geographical Observations taken during a Journey from Kashgar to Kowloon, 1907-8, Hong Kong, 1911. 46 Lockhart's interest in the Chinese language is recognised in the dedication to him of Mok Man-cheung's Tah Tsz Anglo-Chinese Dictionary, 2nd edition (Chinese foreword dated 9th October, 1914). Mok had served in the Registrar-General's department with Lockhart, and moved to the Supreme Court as an interpreter in 1891. See also note 71 below. 47 China Review, vol. xxi, 1892/93, p. 405. 48 Vols. xx to xxii. The disputants included E. J. Eitel, E. H. Parker, E. D. H. Fraser, H. A. Giles, and Lockhart. The first edition of Lockhart's book was dedicated to Dr. John Chalmers, the distinguished sinologue, and the second to Dr. James Legge as well. Lockhart spoke of them as 'two famous Aberdonians'. 49 China Review, vol. xxi, 1892/93, p. 412. 50 China Review, vol. xxii, 1893/94, p. 547, 51 T'oung Pao, vol. viii, 1897, pp. 412-430. 52 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 6, 1930-32, p. 812. 53 Chinese Recorder, Sept. 1903, p. 464. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1972 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/gm80qf99h SIR JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART 54 Index to the Tso Chuan, p. iii of Lockhart's preface. 55 Ibid., p. iii. 56 T'oung Pao, vol. xxix, 1932, p. 180. 83 57 On the study of folklore see Alan Dundes (ed.), The Study of Folklore, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1965. 58 N. B. Dennys (1840?-1900), a student interpreter in the Consular Service, published in Hong Kong in 1867: The Folklore of China, and its affinities with that of the Aryan and Semitic Races. It was a reprint of a series of articles first published in the China Review. Dennys' study is influenced particularly by the work of Max Müller. A typical example of Dennys' conjecturing would be the following: 'But what are we to make of the monotheistic spirit pervading the numerous sayings in which the "Heaven" of the Chinese answers to the "God" of Christian Europe or the "Jehovah" of the chosen race? Is this the spontaneous invention of an isolated people, or is it the surviving trace of a long-forgotten worship, when the ancestors of the Chinamen and the Semite worshipped at the same tomb?' (p. 155). See also Thomas Watters, 'Chinese Fox-Myths', JNCBRAS, vol. viii, 1873. The article by E. T. C. Werner, 'China's Place in Sociology', China Review, vol. xx, 1891/92, pp. 303-310, provides another example of the speculative thinking current among the educated in the 1880s. 59 Lockhart's circular was also printed in the JNCBRAS, vol. xxi, 1886, p. 120. 60 China Review, vol. xiv, 1885/86, p. 352. 61 In 1860 the Hong Kong Daily Press published a separate newspaper in Chinese. This was the Chung Ngoi San Po and its first editor was Wong Shing (Huang Shêng). 62 The collection contains over 600 letters from R. F. Johnston to Lockhart. 63 JNCBRAS, vol. xlvii, 1916, p. 152. 64 Arthur Bradden Cole, An Encyclopedia of Chinese Coins, New Collegiate Press, Kansas, 1967, vol. 1, p. 335. 65 South China Morning Post, 5 January, 1972. 66 Jean Gittins, Eastern Windows, Western Skies, Hong Kong, 1969, p. 47. 67 The Times, 4 March, 1937. See also the obituary in the North-China Herald of 10 March, 1937. The South China Morning Post on 1 March, 1937, declared that Sir James' name is immortalised in Hong Kong by Lockhart Road on the Praya Reclamation.' Lockhart received the C.M.G. in 1898 and became a K.C.M.G. in 1908. 68 R. F. Johnston's obituary notice of Lockhart: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1937, p. 393. Johnston states he was one of the first to receive the honorary degree of LL.D from the newly founded University of Hong Kong. He received this honour in 1919 and was in fact the twelfth person to be so honoured. 69 See, for example, Lockhart's letter to Dr. G. E. Morrison after Morrison's speech to the China Association in 1907: 'I admired your pluck', Lockhart wrote, 'in telling your hosts what could not have been entirely pleasing to their self-satisfied ears, and in giving expression to what you well know will not make you popular with the white men in the Far West. You boldly advised removal of the troops. See Cyril Pearl, ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 209 ed April 15, 1865. In the biographies roman figures, as above, will be used to distin-guish these committees. 2. Social Committees Despite the pressure of work during part of the year and in spite also of some claims that the treaty ports were a social and cultural desert, Shanghai could boast a fair number of clubs and charitable institutions. Below I give some elementary details about those that crop up more than once in the biographies. a. British Episcopal Church The official Anglican Church was very early established in Shang-hai; in 1847 the first Trinity Church was built, to be replaced by a new one in 1866-1869. b. Chinese Hospital Founded in 1846 by the London Missionary Society with non-mission funds; trustees supervised the activities of the hospital, which was for Chinese only. c. North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (NCBRAS) Originated in 1857 as the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society, renamed the NCBRAS in 1859, temporarily suspended in 1861 to be resuscitated in 1864. d. Recreation Fund A fund that was formed in 1863 through the sale of the ground within the second racecourse (to the east of the new one at Bub-bing Well Road). In order to administer this fund a committee was formed. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 212 J.H. HAAN CRYDER, William Wetmore 1858-1859, 1859-1860 Junior partner in Wetmore & Co.;23 from May 25, 1857 partner in Wetmore, Williams & Co.24 CUNNINGHAM, Edward 1852-1853, 1854-1855 Born 1823, died 1889. Mercantile assistant Russell & Co. 1845-1849; partner 1850-1857, 1861-1863 and 1867-1877;25 part of 1849 and in 1850 he stayed in Canton,26 United States Consul 1851-1854; Consul for Sweden and Norway 1853-1864.27 Member Recreation Ground Committee 1861;28 trustee British Episcopal Church 1863;29 member of the NCBRAS, as resident until 1870,30 as non-resident until 1877,31 Member Committees I, III, IV, VI and VII. Apart from his political functions, Cunningham's philanthropic attitude was praised from several sides. Cordier called him "one of the most public-spirited men Shanghai has ever known"32 and S.W. Williams dedicated the fifth edition of his "Commercial Guide" to "Edward Cunningham Esq. of Shanghai (...) as a mark of respect for his character as a philanthropist and merchant (...)". At the time of his return to the United States he took with him a large bell which is now in the possession of the Museum of the American China Trade, Milton.33 Later a street was named after him (Cunningham Road). Portraits. Author.34 315 DENT, Henry 1863-1864, 1864-1865 Partner in Dent & Co. from July 1, 1860.36 Consul for Portugal 1863-1865.37 Member of the Commission Provisoire that ran the French Concession 1865-1866.38 Trustee British Episcopal Church 1863, treasurer Recreation Fund 1863-1865;40 trustee Chinese Hospital 1865.41 Treasurer NCBRAS 1864,42 Member Committees IV and IX. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 213 FEARON, Charles Augustine 1854-1855 46 Arrived in China probably 1836; lived in Shanghai from 1846;44 at first partner in Fearon & Co.,* later in Aug. Heard & Co.; agent for Heard in London from August 1856. FORBES, Frank Blackwell 1864-1865 Born 1839, died 1908. Came to China as private secretary of the American envoy William Reed in 1857. 48 Partner in Russell & Co. from January 1, 1863. 49 Consul-General for Sweden and Norway from September 13, 1864.5 54 $1 Member of the Conseil Municipal of the French Concession 1868-1869, 1869-1870, 1870-1871, 1871-1872, 1872-1873. Trustee Recreation Fund;7 member of the NCBRAS 1864 until 1874 (as resident), until 1882 (as non-resident);53 Vice president NCBRAS 1872, president NCBRAS 1873 and 1874;5 member of a committee of the NCBRAS to study the "feasibility of establishing a Public Library", 1868;56 member of a committee of the NCBRAS “appointed for the consideration of the expediency of publishing a reprint of the Chinese Repository", 1868.7 Portraits.** Author of, among others, botanical works. GIBB, Hugh Bold 1857-1858, 1858-1859 $9 Authorized to sign for Gibb, Livingston & Co. from March 8, 1855;6 later he became a partner. 61 Trustee British Episcopal Church 1858.62 Unofficial member of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong 1860-1870, 1879.63 GRAY, George Griswold 1856-1857 64 Authorized to sign for Russell & Co. January 3, 1854, partner from January 1, 1855 till December 31, 1859.4 He took part in the Battle of Muddy Flat, April 4, 1854, and was reported wounded. 66 Portrait. 67 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 214 J.H. HAAN GRAY, Hubert Marshall Murray 1869-1860 69 .68 As early as 1846 he resided in Shanghai, worked for Dirom, Gray & Co. Authorized to sign for Smith, Kennedy & Co. March 30, 1858,7 partner November 18, 1858;this interest ceased December 31, 1860.72 GREW, Henry Sturgis 1862-1863 Partner in Russell & Co. from January 1, 1860.7 During the absence of F.B. Forbes he acted as vice-consul for Sweden and Norway 1865.8 GRISWOLD, John N. Alsop 1849-1850 Came to China in 1843,9 first in Canton,10 from 1848 in Shanghai11 Partner in Russell & Co. from 1848 till December 31, 1854.7 United States Consul 1848-1851. HAMILTON, Rowland 1860-1861 Partner in Smith, Kennedy & Co. from November 18, 18587 till December 31, 1860.00 Member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps.31 HANBURY, Sir Thomas 1865-1866 Born 1832, died 1907.82 In 1853 he founded the firm Hanbury & Co., as from 1856 Crampton, Hanbury & Co.; this partnership was dissolved in September 1857,83 after which he established a new one, Bower, Hanbury & Co. Made a considerable fortune through the sale of land in Hongkew. He was also a landowner in the French Concession where he tried to initiate the local "Halles", but in this he was unsuccessful (1864-1865). 85 Member of the Commission Provisoire of the French Concession 1865-1866.86 Member of Committees II, III, IV, V, VII and IX. Corresponding secretary of the NCBRAS 1864.87 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 215 He was known as a philanthropist; one of his charitable acts was the donation of a sum of money to the NCBRAS with which the library could be enriched. 88 Founder of the school at Boone Road that bore his name (1891).* Hanbury Road was named after him. Author. 90 HEARD, George Fairley 1863-1864 Came to China as secretary of the American envoy John Ward.1 Partner in Aug. Heard & Co. from June 1, 1862. HEINSSEN, Rudolph 1864-1865 The first representative of the German firm Siemssen & Co. who established a branch office in Shanghai January 1, 1856.1 Consul for the Hanseatic Towns 1864-1865. 94 HOGG, James 1865-1866 Mercantile assistant Lindsay & Co.,2 partner from July 1, 1854.3 Partnership with E. Jenner Hogg as Hogg Bros. from January 1, 1861. 97 Consul for Italy 1863, 1864. 98 Member Committees I, IV, VII and IX. HOGG, William 1852-1853 Resided in Hong Kong in 1846,99 from 1847 in Shanghai,100 Partner in Lindsay & Co., 1858.102 101 interest in which ended June 30, Consul for Hamburg 1852-1855(?),103 Member of the Committee to study the erection of a new building for the Shanghai Library 1852;104 trustee British Episcopal Church 1853-1855.105 HOWARD, William 1861-1862 Manager of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, Shanghai branch, from November 8, 1859.106 躲 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 216 J.H. HAAN INCE, Henry Alexander 1855-1856 At first lived in Hong Kong, 1850. 107 Partner in Dent, Beale & Co. from July 1, 1854;108 interest ceased June 30, 1858. KAHN, Julius 1864-1865 111 Authorized to sign for Reiss & Co. (a British firm) from October 10, 1859;110 partner May 1, 1860 till April 30, 1865.1 He donated the vases that adorned the entrance of the Shanghai Club. KAY, William 1852-1853, 1854-1855 Partner in Fox, Rawson & Co. in Canton;112 since 1846 in Shanghai as partner of Blackin, Rawson & Co.'113 Member of the Committee to study the erection of a new building for the Shanghai Library 1852.114 KESWICK, William 1865-1866 Possibly was first a resident of Yokohama.115 Partner in Jardine, Matheson & Co. since July 1, 1862.116 Consul for Denmark 1863-?.117 Trustee British Episcopal Church 1866;118 member of the management committee of the Society for Relief of Distressed Foreigners of All Nationalities 1865.'119 Unofficial member of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong 1867-1872, 1875-1886.120 Member of the NCBRAS.121 Member of Committee IX. KING, David O. 1854-1855 Before 1850 he lived in Canton.122 At first partner in J.M. Smith & Co.; later Smith, King & Co.'123 and King & Co.'124 Vice-Consul for Prussia 1853-1854.125 1856-1858 he resided in Bangkok.'126 Author127 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 217 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 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 218 Shanghai in late 1843. J.H. HAAN Apart from general missionary duties he was mainly active as a printer and in this capacity he issued numerous tracts in several Oriental languages. Up to 1854 he was a vocal critic of the Committee of Roads and Jetties (the forerunner of the Municipal Council), especially with respect to the taxes it levied. A number of times he refused to pay them, among other reasons because he thought not enough was done to lay out a proper road to the L.M.S. compound. Trustee of the Shantung Road Cemetery. Portrait.1 Author of many works in English, Chinese and Malay. 146 144 143 Medhurst Road was named after him and his son, W.H. Medhurst Jr., British Consul. MICHIE, Alexander 1862-1863 Born 1833, died 1901.147 Arrived in Shanghai about 1854 in the employment of Lindsay & Co.;148 partner from January 1, 1861;149 later partner in Chapman, King & Co.;11 was also employed by Jardine, Matheson & Co.151 1886-1891 publisher and editor of the Chinese Times in Tien-tsin.152 150 Vice-president of the NCBRAS 1870,153 Member Committee III. 1873.154 Author among other works of a biography of Rutherford Alcock.155 MONCREIFF, Thomas 1849-1850 Arrival in Shanghai 1846;156 partner in Rathbones, Worthington & Co., from June 1, 1853 Moncreiff, Grove & Co.158 Trustee British Episcopal Church 1856 and subsequent years. Vice-president Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society 1857.159 Member Committee IV. Died in 1863(?).160 NYE, Clement Drew 1851-1852, 1855-1856, 1865-1866 Born 1821, died 1867. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 219 161 Lived in Canton and Macau, 1841-1849, where he was a partner in Nye, Parker & Co. and Vice-consul for Chile. Later partner in Bull, Nye & Co. Buried at Shantung Road Cemetery. 162 ORNE, Charles W. 1857-1858 Mercantile assistant Russell & Co., partner from January 1, 1857. 163 PROBST, W. 1865-1866 First lived in Canton, then Shanghai. Unknown in which firm he was employed; Consul for Oldenburg 1861. Member of the Shanghai Society for Relief of Distressed Foreigners of All Nationalities, 1865. 166 Member of the Recreation Fund Committee; NCBRAS till 1870 (non-resident). 168 His wife died November 28, 1864 at the age of 28. 169 RANKEN, Andrew Archibald 1856-1857 member Partner in Smith, Kennedy & Co., May 1855 till December 31, 1858. 171 Trustee British Episcopal Church 1857; member Committee Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society 1858. 172 Portrait. 173 REID, David 1863-1864 174 He was among other interests a real estate agent; partnership with John George Dunn as Reid & Co. from January 1, 1864. Member of the NCBRAS 1873-1878 (last year as non-resident). Trustee Recreation Fund Committee 1872, 1873. Member Committee VI and VII. REID, Robert 1859-1860 Partner in Birley, Worthington & Co. 1862. 178 Page 240 Page 241 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 Trustee British Episcopal Church 1852-1853,199 TALBOT, G.W. 1864-1865 In 1874 he was a partner in Olyphant & Co., Hong Kong. Member of the NCBRAS 1864.201 200 221 Active in amateur dramatics and in March 1864 he participated in performances of the Shanghai Volunteer Theatrical. TATE, Joseph Priestley 1861-1862 Authorized to sign for Jas. Bowman & Co. April 23, 1858,203 later partner in Blain, Tate & Co.204 Member Committee Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society 1858,205 member NCBRAS till 1873,206 member Recreation Fund Committee 1866.207 Member Committee I. THORBURN, William 1855-1856 Lived in Shanghai from 1847;208 partner in Hargreaves & Co. till May 17, 1856,209 in Blenkin, Rawson & Co. from August 4, 1856,210 later (1863, 1864) partner in Jarvie, Thorburn & Co.211 Member Committee IV. Possibly Thorburn Road was named after him. THORNE, John 1858-1859 Came to China as agent of Wells Fargo & Co.;212 later he acted as a broker. From its foundation in October 1867 till December 1871 he was editor of "The Shanghai News-Letter for California and the Atlantic States".213 Member Committee Society for the Relief of Distressed Foreigners of All Nationalities, 1865;214 member Committee NCBRAS 1865.215 TURNER, Henry 1862-1863 Manager Agra and United Service Bank 1862.216 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 222 J.H. HAAN TYERS, Richard R. 1860-1861 Employed by King & Co., 1855,217 Trustee Chinese Hospital 1865.218 Member Committee VI and VII. VACHER, William Herbert 1855-1856 219 220 Lived 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 Member Committee to study the erection of a new building for the Shanghai Library, 1852.224 Member Committee II. WETMORE, William Shephard 1853-1854, 1855-1856, 1861-1862 225 Partner in Wetmore & Co., from September 1, 1852,226 as from May 29, 1857 Wetmore, Williams & Co. Member of the NCBRAS till 1882.227 He still lived in Shanghai in 1890 as partner in Frazar & Co.228 Author. 229 WHITLOW, James 1860-1861 Authorized to sign for Holliday, Wise & Co. from March 13, 1856;230 partner January 1, 1863.231 WIETERS, August 1863-1864 232 Authorized to sign for the German firm of Harkort & Co. from November 23, 1861.233 Source Notes Abbreviations: BS: Bibliotheca Sinica (by Henri Cordier) CK: Chinese Repository JNCBRAS: Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society NCDHL: North China Desk Hong List ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 NCH: North China Herald SA: Shanghai Almanac Adv. Advertisement d.d. dated Adv. NCH 26.6.1852. 2 NCH 6.4.1861. NCH 10.12.1864. NCH 4.2.1865. 5 NCH 18.3.1865. NCH 6.5.1865. 7 Adv. NCH 26.1.1861. 4 Adv. NCH 17.1.1863. 9 Adv. NCH 3.8.1861. 223 10 Adv. NCH 20.9.1862 and earlier (d.d. 14.6.1862). 11 China Directory 1874. 12 He does not yet appear in the list published by the NCH 3.8.1850; CR January 1851 mentions him as a resident of Shanghai, 13 Adv. NCH 1.1.1853. 14 NCH 31.1.1852, 15 NCH 25.9.1852, to NCH 14.1.1854. 17 Adv. NCH 14.3.1857. 14 Adv. NCH 22.3.1861. 19 NCH 13.6.1863. 20 Adv. NCH 3.12.1853. 21 NCDHL 1890. 22 China Directory 1874. 23 SA 1856. 24 Adv. NCH 13.6.1857. 25 Cf. Liu Kwang-ching: "Anglo-American Steamship Rivalry in China 1862-1874” (1962), p. 179, note 9; Eldon Griffin: “Clippers and Consuls” (1938), p. 94, n. 21 and p. 306, n. 6; NCH 28.1.1858, 26.1.1861; see also Hao Yen-p'ing: “The Comprador in Nineteenth Century China" (1970), p. 26ff. 26 CR January 1850, Jan. 1851. 27 NCH 8.4.1854, 21.11.1863, 5.12.1863; SA 1856. Probably not the whole period because his partnership in Russells was interrupted. 28 NCH 6.4.1861, 29 NCH 13.6.1863. JNCBRAS, Vol. VI (1871). 31 JNCBRAS, Vol. XII (1878). ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 224 J.H. HAAN 32 13 Letter of Cordier in JNCBRAS, Vol. XXXV (1902), p. xi. Arts of Asia (Hong Kong), May-June 1976, p. 65 (illustration) and p. 72. 14 Portraits in "Boston and the China Trade” (1970), no. 23; and Liu, o.c., between pp. 78 and 79. 35 36 Liu, o.c. p. 179, n. 9; BS. IV 2520. Adv. NCH 11.8.1860. 37 NCH 21.11.1863, 31.12.1864, 8.7.1865. 38 Maybon & Fredet: "Histoire de la Concession française de Changhai” (1929), p. 318, 445. NCH 13.6.1863. 39 40 BS III, 2274. 41 NCH 4.2.1865. 42 43 JNCBRAS, Vol. I (1865); Cordier, Letter, (see n. 32) p. xiii. CR Jan. 1837, 44 CR Jan. 1847. 45 CR Jan. 1845 (in Macau). 46 See e.g. NCH 3.8.1850; SA 1853-1856. 41 NCH 16.8.1856; cf. also S.C. Lockwood: “Aug. Heard & Co. 1858-1862” (1971), p. 19. 41 Griffin, o.c., p. 306-307, n. 6; S. Couling: "Encyclopedia Sinica" (1917), p. 187; "Guide to the microfilm edition of the Forbes Papers" (1969), p. 15, 18. Adv. NCH 3.1.1863. 50 NCH 24.9.1864. 51 Maybon & Fredet, o.c., p. 445-446. 52 BS III, 2274. 53 JNCBRAS, Vol. X (1876), Vol. XVII (1882), p. x. 34 JNCBRAS, Vol. VII (1873), p. i. 55 JNCBRAS, Vol. VIII (1874), p. i; Vol. IX (1875), p. i. 56 JNCBRAS, Vol. V (1869), p. v-vii, 57 Ibid. p. ix-x. 58 Portrait in "Boston and the China Trade", no. 24; Liu, o.c., between pp. 78 and 79. 59 Couling, o.c., p. 187; Cordier, Letter, (see n. 32) p. xviii; BS I, 480; “Guide to microfilm edition of the Forbes Papers", p. 18. 60 Adv. NCH 14.4.1855. 61 SA 1856. 62 NCH 9.1.1858. 63 G.B. Endacott: "Government and People in Hong Kong 1841-1962" (1964), p. 251. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 225 Adv. NCH 7.1.1854; according to Griffin, o.c., p. 306, n. 6 partner 1850-1859. 64 65 Adv. NCH 27.1.1855, 7.1.1860. 66 C.J. Dudgeon "The Battle of Muddy Flat" in United Empire, June 1914, p. 480; NCH 8.4.1854 only “Mr. Gray". 67 F.L. Hawks Pott: "A Short History of Shanghai”, (1928), fac. p. 81. 68 CR Jan. 1847. 69 NCH 3.8.1850; SA 1853, 1854, 1855. 70 Adv. NCH 24.4.1858. 71 Adv. NCH 20.11.1858. T2 Adv. NCH 12.1.1861. 73 Adv. NCH 7.1.1860; Griffin, o.c., p. 306, n. 6: till 1866. 74 Notification 6.4.1865; in NCH 15.4.1865. 75 CR Jan. 1844. 76 CR Jan. 1846, Jan. 1848. 77 CR Jan. 1849. Griffin, o.c., p. 306, n. 6; NCH 27.1.1855. 79 Adv, NCH 20.11.1858. 80 Adv. NCH 12.1.1861. 81 NCH 18.8.1860. 12 Obituary by Henri Cordier in T'oung Pao, Vol. VII (1907), p. 123-124. Adv. NCH 3.10.1857. 14 Adv. NCH 1.1.1859. 05 Maybon & Fredet, o.c., p. 289. 16 Ibid., p. 445. 17 JNCBRAS, Vol. 1 (1865), p. 146. 18 Cordier, Letter, (see n. 32) p. xvi and obituary (see note 82). 49 For Hanbury School see e.g. A. Wright: “Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai and other Treaty Ports of China” (1908), p. 489. 90 BS IV, 2557. 91 Lockwood, o.c., p. S. 92 Adv. NCH 7.6.1862. 93 Adv. NCH 5.1.1856; see also Wright, o.c., p. 612. 94 NCH 31.12.1864, 8.7.1865. 95 NCH 3.8.1850. 96 Adv. NCH 5.8.1854. 97 Adv, NCH 19.1.1861. ** NCH 21.11.1863, 31.12.1863. 99 CR Jan. 1847. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 135 NCH 31.3.1855. 136 137 CR Jan. 1848, Jan. 1849, Jan. 1850. Adv. NCH 1.4.1854. 134 Adv. NCH 11.8.1855. 119 Adv. NCH 17.5.1862. 140 227 NCH 31.3.1855, 14.3.1857. 141 Polt, o.c., fac. p. 81. 1414 "Dictionary of National Biography” (1900), Vol. XIII, p. 202-203; A. Wylie: "Memorials of Protestant Missionaries” (1867), p. 25ff; NCH 11.4.1857; Couling, o.c., p. 344. 143 See: J.H. Haan: “De opkomst van de Internationale Settlement te Shanghai 1845-1865" (The Rise of the International Settlement at Shanghai) Unpublished manuscript, University of Amsterdam, 1977, p. 167-169. 144 NCH 13.9.1851; SA 1855. 145 146 J.C. Harris: “Couriers of Christ" (1931), fac. p. 112. Wylie, o.c., p. 25ff; BS I, 74; III 1596-1597. Obituary by Henri Cordier in T'oung Pao, Vol. III (1902), p. 338. 147 148 SA 1855, 1856. 149 Adv. NCH 19.1.1861. 150 China Directory 1874. 151 See: Edward LeFevour "Western Enterprise in Late Ch'ing China" (1970), passim. 152 King & Clarke, o.c., p. 98; see also p. 137 (year of death should be 1902 instead of 1891). 153 JNCBRAS, Vol. VI (1871), p. ix. 154 JNCBRAS, Vol. VIII (1874), p. i. 155 BS III, 2365; IV, 2557. 156 CR Jan. 1847. 157 Adv. NCH 27.8.1853. 158 NCH 12.4.1856, 14.3.1857, 9.1.1858, 15.1.1859. Replaced by Whittal (NCH 13.6.1863). 159 NCH 26.9.1857; Cordier, Letter, (see n. 32) p. xii. 160 Death reported in Report 1863 Trustees Trinity Church (NCH 10.12.1864). 161 CR Jan. 1842, 1843, 1848 (Macau), 1847 (Canton), 1848 (ibid), 1849 (ibid), 1850 (ibid). 162 Elliston. o.c., p. 25. SA 1854, 1855, 1856; adv. NCH 3.1.1857. 163 164 CR Jan. 1851. 165 Notification in NCH 17.8.1861. 166 NCH 10.6.1865. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 228 J.H. HAAN 107 BS III, 2274. 160 JNCBRAS, Vol. VI (1871), p. xv. 169 NCH 5.12.1864; see also Elliston, p. 26. 170 Adv. NCH 26.5.1855, 15.1.1859. 171 NCH 9.1.1858. 172 NCH 23.1.1858; already elected 24.9.1857 but on Oct. 16 he refused this post (Cordier, Letter, (see n. 32) p. xii; NCH 26.9.1857). 173 Pott, o.c., fac. p. 81 (here he is wrongly called Rankin). 174 175 Adv. NCH 31.1.1863. 176 JNCBRAS, Vol. XIII (1879), p. v. 177 BS III, 2274. 178 SA 1862. 179 NCH 23.1.1858. 180 CR Jan. 1847 till Jan. 1850. 181 NCH 3.8.1850; SA 1853. 182 Adv. NCH 13.5.1854. 183 NCH 31.1.1852. 184 NCH 25.9.1852. 185 Adv. NCH 2.4.1864. 186 CR Jan. 1841. 187 CR Jan. 1848 (Shanghai), Jan. 1850, Jan. 1851 (Canton). Adv. NCH 24.1.1857. 188 189 CR Jan. 1847. 190 NCH 3.8.1850; SA 1853, 1854. 191 NCH 10.9.1853. 192 193 194 CR Jan. 1841; King & Clarke, o.c., p. 153. CR Jan. 1849. Adv. NCH 10.1.1852. 195 Adv. NCH 19.4.1851. 196 Adv. NCH 31.5.1862. 197 Adv. NCH 7.1.1854. 198 King & Clarke, o.c., p. 77, 153. 199 200 NCH 24.4.1852. China Directory 1874, Hong Kong p. A38. 201 JNCBRAS, Vol. I (1865), p. 146. 202 NCH 2.4.1864. 203 Adv. NCH 24.4.1858. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 204 SA 1862. 205 NCH 23.1.1858. 205 208 207 JNCBRAS, Vol. VIII(1874), p. x. BS III, 2274; NCH 24.3.1866. CR Jan. 1847. 209 Adv. NCH 27.9.1856. 210 Ibid. 211 Liu. o.c., p. 183, n. 55. 212 King & Clarke, o.c., p. 157. 213 BS III, 2262. 214 NCH 10.6.1865. 215 JNCBRAS, Vol. II(1866), p. 182. 214 SA 1862. 217 SA 1856. 218 NCH 4.2.1865. 219 CR Jan. 1845. 220 Adv. NCH 30.8.1851. 221 Adv. NCH 28.7.1860. 122 NCH 25.9.1852. 123 Adv. NCH 2.10.1852. 124 Adv. NCH 13.6.1857. 125 JNCBRAS, Vol. XVII(1882), p. xi. 126 127 NCDHL 1890, p. 115. BS III, 2290. 228 Adv. NCH 22.3.1856. 229 Adv. NCH 31.1.1863. 230 Adv. NCH 30.11.1861. 231 CR Jan. 1845 ("J.H. Wynch"). 232 Adv. NCH 30.8.1851. 233 Adv. NCH 8.8.1857. 234 NCH 31.1.1852. 235 NCH 31.3.1855. 136 NCH 14.3.1857. 229 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1988 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ft84gb83q 196 NOTES 1 Cordier, Henri. "The Life and labours of Alexander Wylie." Chinese Researches (Shanghai). 1897, p. 13. 2 Bridgman, Elijah C. Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (JNCBARS), Vol. I (Old Series), 1858, p. 11. 3 Ibid, p. 13. 4 Cordier. "letter" JNCBRAS. Vol. XXXV, 1903-4 p. P. xiii. 5 Pott, F. L. Hawkes. A Short History of Shanghai. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1928, p. 85. 6 Cordier. "letter” JNCBRAS. Vol. XXXV, 1903-4, p. xiv. 7 JNCBRAS. Vol. V, p. viii. 8 Cordier. "letter' JNCBRAS. Vol. XXXV, 1903-4, p. xiv-xv. 9 Cordier. "Preface to the First Edition" in the Catalogue of the North China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, in JNCBRAS, Vol, VII, p.i. 10 Ibid. pp. i-ii. 11 JNCBRAS. Vol. X, p. ii. 12 Cordier. "letter" JNCBRAS. Vol. XXXV, 1903-4, p. xx. 13 JNCBRAS. Vol. XII, p. ii. 14 JNCBRAS. Vol. XIV, p.i. 15 Ibid. p. xii. 16 JNCBRAS. Vol. XIV, p. iv. 17 JNCBRAS. Vol. XXI, pp. 358-359. 18 JNCBRAS. Vol. XXVIII, p. 19 JNCBRAS. Vol. XXXIV, pp. 337-8. 20 Ayscough, Florence Wheelock. "Preface to the Fourth Edition" in the Catalogue of the North China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, (Shanghai, 1909), pp. vi-ix. 21 JNCBRAS. Vol. XL, p. 22 Darwent, C. E. Shanghai: a handbook for travellers and residents, 2nd ed. (Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1920), pp. 171-2. 23 JNCBRAS, Vol. XLII, p. 260. 24 Ibid. p. 259. 25 JNCBRAS. Vol. XLVIII, p. vii. 26 JNCBRAS. Vol. LI, p. vii. 27 JNCBRAS. Vol. XLVII, p. 88. 28 "Preface to the Fifth Edition" in the Catalogue of the North China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, Shanghai, 1921, u.p. 29 JNCBRAS. Vol LVII, p.i. 30 JNCBRAS. Vol. LXI, p, viii. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1988 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/ft84gb83q 197 JNCBRAS. Vol. LXII, p. iv. 32 JNCBRAS. Vol. LXVII, p. iv. 33 JNCBRAS. Vol. LXIX, p. xiii. 14 JNCBRAS. Vol. LXXI, p. xii. 35 Ibid. p. xii. 36 JNCBRAS. Vol. LXXIII, p. ii. 37 BL Ibid. p. iii-iv. 38 Ibid. p. iv. 39 JNCBRAS. Vol. LXXIV, n.p. 40 JNCBRAS. Vol. XLIV, p. 214. 41 Pott, F. L. Hawkes, A Short History of Shanghai (Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1928) 42 The China Journal. Vol. XXI, No. 1. July, 1934, p. 12. 43 The China Journal. Vol. XXVII, No. 3. Sept., 1937, pp. 158-59. ================================================================================