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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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tees VI, VII and VIII.

He left Shanghai in May 1865.*

BRAND, Andrew 1862-1863

Partner in Smith, Kennedy & Co. from December 31, 1860.7 He died late 1862 or early 1863.8

BRAND, Robert 1863-1864

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Authorized to sign for Smith, Kennedy & Co. from July 1, 1861.9 Partner from January 1, 1862 (or 1863, this is not quite clear).1 Later he was a partner in Brand Bros.

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BROWN, William Seton 1851-1852, 1854-1855

Arrived in Shanghai late 1850;12 originally in partnership with William Rathbone, Samuel Rathbone, James Worthington and Thomas Moncreiff as commission agents; turned into Birley, Worthington & Co. as from January 1, 1853.13

Member Committee Shanghai Library 1852;14 member Committee to study the erection of a new building for the Shanghai Library 1852;13 member Committee Shanghai Library 1854.16

COCK, James 1862-1863, 1863-1864

Authorized to sign for Watson & Co. from March 6, 1857; partner as from March 15, 1861.18

Trustee British Episcopal Church 1863.19

Member Committee IV.

COUTTS, George Watson 1857-1858

Partner in Watson & Co. from November 25, 1853.20

He was still living in Shanghai in 1890.21

COUTTS, J.C. 1865-1866

Partner in Coutts & Co.22

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