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	George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
		George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (14 May, 1737 - 31 May, 1806) was a British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat.
		George Macartney was descended from an old Scottish family, the Macartneys of Auchinleck, who had settled in 1649 at Lissanoure, County Antrim, Ireland, where he was born.
		After being created Earl Macartney in the Irish peerage (1792), he was appointed the first envoy of Britain to China.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/George_Macartney,_1st_Earl_Macartney (373 words)

	macart.htm
		Macartney did not settle in Ireland until September 1769 and during the preceding nine months, it had been a main part of his duties to try to obtain the cabinet's approval of Townshend's plan.
		In the summer of 1795, Earl Macartney as he now was (his earldom had been conferred during his absence in China) was sent by Lord Grenville, the British Foreign Secretary, as an envoy to the Comte de Provence in Verona.
		Those Macartney Papers sold [to Phillips] in 1854 have become, whilst retaining their own identity, part of the story of the Phillipps Collection...', which was dispersed between 1886 and 1913 on sixteen separate occasions in 1,900 lots for a return of some 70,000.
	www.proni.gov.uk /records/private/macart.htm (9292 words)

	A Compendium of Irish Biography: comprising sketches of distinguished Irishmen, eminent persons connected with Ireland ...
		Macartney, Sir George, Earl Macartney, was born at Lissanoure, in the northern part of the County of Antrim, 14th May 1737.
		Macartney found the resources of the Presidency almost exhausted; he borrowed money, raised recruits, established confidence, and aided by Sir Eyre Coote and Lord Hastings, repulsed the natives, drove the Dutch from the Coromandel coast, and concluded advantageous treaties with many of the Nabobs.
		The Earl died at Dunluce, ioth December 1636, and was buried at Bonamargy.
	www.booksulster.com /library/biography/biographyM1.php (15403 words)

	George Macartney Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He was later appointed chief secretary for Ireland and in 1775 became captain general and governor of the Caribbee Islands (Grenada, the Grenadines, and Tobago).
		While he was at Grenada in 1779, the island was captured by the French, and Macartney was taken prisoner to France and there exchanged.
		Macartney was sent on missions to China and Italy and served finally as governor of the Cape of Good Hope colony.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Arlenes/M/Macartny.html (157 words)

	GEORGE MACARTNEY, EARL MACARTNEY - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE MACARTNEY, EARL MACARTNEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He died at Chiswick, Middlesex, on the 3ist of May 1806, the title becoming extinct, and his property, after the death of his widow (daughter of the 3rd earl of Bute), going to his niece, whose son took the name.
		An account of Macartneys embassy to China, by Sir George Staunton, was published in 1797, and has been frequently reprinted.
		See Mrs Helen Macartney Robbinss biography, The First English A inbassador to China (1908), based on previously unpublished materials in possession of the family.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MACARTNEY_GEORGE_MACARTNEY_EARL.htm (299 words)

	March 31st (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		George Macartney, a descendant of the Macartneys of Auchenleck, near Kirkcudbright, was born at his father's seat, Lissanoure, in the county of Antrim, Ireland, on the 14
		In this emergency, Macartney was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the Empress; and having received the honour of knighthood, departed on his delicate mission.
		A detailed account of this embassy, prepared by Sir George Staunton from Lord Macartney's own papers, was, till a very late period, the standard authority on all matters relating to the Chinese empire.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/march/31.htm (2439 words)

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		This family included the Irish Earl Macartney, first British ambassador to China in the late 1700's (who died childless, thus, leaving his property and arms - but not his titles - to a niece and her sons who took the name, and whose descendants still survive as Macartney-Filgate, bearing quartered arms).
		A younger branch of this family were the Macartneys of Lish, county Armagh, who became baronets in 1799, the current baronet being a dairy farmer in Australia.
		Macartney of Rosehill - a Scotch-Irish family of clerics and scholars, unrelated as far as I know to the other two and bearing the same arms as the Earl with eight roses Argent charged on the bordure, and with the arm in the crest vested barry Or and Gules cuffed Argent.
	www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk /interarmsgal/gallery.asp?ID=86 (1072 words)

	Lord Macartney and dwarf trees
		The embassy was given the opportunity of traversing a part of the country beyond the Great Wall when it travelled in early September 1793 to Jehol, one of the summer residences of the Manchu Emperors.
		Macartney, along with visiting Mongols and Burmese, was then given a single imperial audience and presents for his mission and the King.
		The imperial edict Macartney was to convey to George III declared that China was self-sufficient and had "not the slightest need for your Country's manufactures." It also admonished the British monarch to "act in conformity with our wishes by strengthening your loyalty and swearing perpetual obedience..."
	www.phoenixbonsai.com /pre1800Refs/Macartney.html (650 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 2391
		She was the daughter of Sir Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and Lady Elizabeth Hastings.
		She was the daughter of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu.
		A contract for the marriage of George Ramsay, 2nd Earl of Dalhousie and Lady Anne Fleming was signed on 10 December 1644.
	www.thepeerage.com /p2391.htm (1054 words)

	William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst - China-related Topics WI-WL - China-Related Topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst and 2nd Baron Amherst (1773 - 1857), was Governor-General of India.
		On arriving in the Peiho he was given to understand that he could only be admitted to the emperor Jiaqing Emperor of ChinaJiaqing's presence on condition of performing the kow-tow, a ceremony which Western nations considered degrading, and which was, indeed, a homage exacted by a Chinese sovereign from his tributaries.
		To this Lord Amherst, following the advice of Sir George Leonard Staunton, who accompanied him as second commissioner, refused to consent, as George Macartney, 1st Earl MacartneyLord Macartney had done in 1793, unless the admission was made that his sovereign was entitled to the same show of reverence from a mandarin of his rank.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/William_Pitt_Amherst,_1st_Earl_Amherst (513 words)

	Loughguile or Loughgeel Parish, Co. Antrim, Ireland, ©Jane Lyons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lisanour Castle, situated on the shores of the lough, was originally built by Sir Philip Savage in the reign of John, and in 1723 was purchased by the ancestors of the Macartney family, of whom George, Earl Macartney, was born and for some time resided here.
		Trail, the last chancellor of Connor, and under Bishop Mant's act for dissolving the union attached to the chancellorship of that see, the living, previously a vicarage, became a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Connor, and in the patronage of the Bishop : the tithes amount to £515.
		The church, a small plain edifice with a tower surmounted by a spire, was rebuilt in 1733, chiefly at the expense of the late Earl Macartney.
	www.from-ireland.net /lewis/ant/loughguile.htm (551 words)

	Spectator, The: Mind your language
		He lived from 1737 to 1806 and was in 1788 created Earl Macartney (or Lord Macartney for reference), with a seat in the Irish House of Lords.
		If he were to have been called `Lord George', he would have had to have been the son of an earl at least, and he wasn't.
		Though he ended up an earl himself, he had no son, and left all to his niece, whose eldest son gratefully, if not famously, changed his name to Hume-Macartney.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199909/ai_n8854394 (515 words)

	Kowtow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kowtow was a very important in the diplomacy of China with European powers, since it was required to come into presence of the Emperor, but it meant submission before him.
		Dutch traders had no problem to kowtow since they represented themselves, but the British embassies of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1793) and William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1816) were foiled since kowtowing would mean acknowledging the King as a subject of the Emperor.
		This page was last modified 23:08, 24 Jun 2004.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Kowtow (266 words)

	MACARTNEY, GEORGE MACARTNEY, EARL (1737-1806) - Online Information article about MACARTNEY, GEORGE MACARTNEY, EARL ...
		MACARTNEY, GEORGE MACARTNEY, EARL (1737-1806) - Online Information article about MACARTNEY, GEORGE MACARTNEY, EARL (1737-1806)
		EARL (1737-1806), was descended from an old Scottish See also:
		Staunton, was published in 1797, and has been frequently reprinted.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LUP_MAL/MACARTNEY_GEORGE_MACARTNEY_EARL.html (472 words)

	AIM25: Wellcome Library: Macartney, George, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806)
		Administrative/Biographical history: George Macartney (1737-1806), 1st Earl Macartney, was Governor and President of Fort St George, Madras, 1780-1786.
		Note on verso of leaf 2 signed 'J.B.' (Sir John Barrow (1764-1848), Secretary to the Admiralty, and founder of the Royal Geographical Society) states 'This journal was written by Lord Macartney on board the Lion merely for his own amusement and to pass away a few heavy hours on a very long sea voyage'.
		To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802 to the residence of the chiefs of the Booshuana nation (1806)
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/20/2916.htm (322 words)

	Georg Ebers . Homo Sum - Complete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		MACARTNEY, Earl of, Boswell's Life of Johnson, praises, i.
		2; Chesterfield, Earl of, eminence of the, ii.
		MURRAY, James Stuart, Earl of, the Regent, v.
	dustybooks.freebox.ru /fuagfu.html (2203 words)

	List of famous duels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		1667: George Villiers (later 2nd Duke of Buckingham) and Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury; Shrewsbury was killed, and George Villiers' second Sir J. Jenkins was killed by the Earl's second.
		Their seconds George Macartney, Esq and Colonel John Hamilton were found guilty of manslaughter.
		1775: George Macartney and Major-General James Stuart; Earl Macartney was wounded.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-famous-duels.htm (2554 words)

	Treasures of the Asia Collections
		Born in Ireland on May 14, 1737, George Macartney, Earl Macartney, studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and went on to become envoy-extraordinary to St. Petersburg, where he concluded a commercial treaty with the Empress Catherine.
		In 1775 he became Governor of the Caribbee Islands, and was captured by the French in 1779 when Grenada was attacked.
		In 1795, Macartney became governor of the newly-captured colony of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa).
	rmc.library.cornell.edu /asiaTreasures/china/Macartney_Expedition.htm (211 words)

	OSBORN 18TH CENTURY BOUND MANUSCRIPTS
		At the end of the MS is copied a letter from Leverland, dated 1773 May 17, presenting a copy of the MS to Thomas Osborne, 4th duke of Leeds (1713-1789).
		Collection of poems by several 18th-century authors, including: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), Richard Roderick (d.1756), and Sneyd Davies (1709-1769); many of the poems are copied from journals and magazines, with their sources and dates identified.
		Belonged to Charles Mason (1699-1771), of Trinity College; signature and note of Richard Farmer (1735-1797); bookplate of Samuel Parr (1747-1825); signature of John Lee (1783-1866); signature of the Earl of Crawford and bookplate of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana.
	webtext.library.yale.edu /beinflat/osborn.CSHELF.HTM (16333 words)

	The Nation, 07/02/1908 - Notes
		...This old China, as we see i-t pictured by Macartney, seems almost as different from the body social, economic, and politic of to-day, as was the old Japan, official and...
		...The China seen by Macartney in 17and21794 was little more than midway in point of time between the Manchu conquest and the present year...
		...Macartney early enjoyed what comes to the student, lover, husband,- and inheritor,of :ranli: ana.fortune...
	www.archive.thenation.com /Summaries/v087i2244_06.htm (12114 words)

	Bodleian Library: Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: Western manuscripts
		Correspondence of George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon of the second creation, with his wife, Lady Katharine, and his sister, Lady Theresa Lewis, 1838-65; papers of Sir Thomas Villiers Lister, mainly Foreign Office memoranda and journals of diplomatic missions, 1845-92.
		Correspondence, diaries and papers of Lady Katharine Clarendon, with some correspondence of her husband, George, 4th Earl of Clarendon, and some miscellaneous family papers.
		Additional papers of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806) relating to his governorship of Fort St. George, Madras (India), 1781-6, and his embassy to China, 1792-4.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /dept/scwmss/wmss/online/online.htm.bak2 (1069 words)

	MALMESBURY, JAMES HARRIS, IST EARL OF (1746-1820) - Online Information article about MALMESBURY, JAMES HARRIS, IST EARL ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		SALISBURY, WILLIAM LONGSWORD (or LONGESPEE), EARL OF (d.
		RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c.
		He was succeeded as 2nd earl by his son James See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAL_MAR/MALMESBURY_JAMES_HARRIS_IST_EAR.html (963 words)

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		Passed to the Earls of Pembroke early 19 cent.
		Built by 1st Earl of Carrick, of Ballylinch Castle, from Rev Thomas Bushe, of Kilmurry.
		The Alexanders were Earls of Caledon - the house in Tyrone which became the principal seat.
	www.r-alston.co.uk /ch_ire.htm (9824 words)

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		James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, Duke of Chatelherault
		Presentation to John Crichton (later 3rd Earl of Erne) by his tenentry, in August 1838, probably to commemorate the completion of the castle
		Mary, Countess of Erne, 1753-1842, eldest daughter of the 4th Earl of Bristol
	www.proni.gov.uk /records/private/pictlist.htm (1293 words)

	macartney - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	Ballymoney Ancestry and genealogy records in Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This estate later became the home of the Macartney family.
		Earl Macartney (1737-1806) was a highly successful diplomat and became the first British Ambassador to China.
		Among his many positions, Macartney was the first British ambassador to China.
	www.ballymoneyancestry.com /htmlsite/councilInfo.asp?id=4&step=2&pstring=1,4&c=1 (1394 words)

	CASBAH: Papers of George Earl Macartney/ Letters to Sir Robert Murray Keith
		Papers of George Earl Macartney/ Letters to Sir Robert Murray Keith
		Scope and content: George Macartney, Earl Macartney (1737-1806) was one of the foremost British diplomats and proconsuls of his day.
		A full description of this collection can be found on the PRONI websiteGeorge Earl Macartney
	www.casbah.ac.uk /cats/archive/181/PRONIA0006.htm (456 words)

	AIM25: School of Slavonic and East European Studies: Macartney Collection
		Administrative/Biographical history: George, Earl Macartney (1737-1806) was a British statesman and diplomat.
		Scope and content/abstract: Manuscript draft of parts of George, Earl Macartney's work "An account of Russia MDCCLXVII" [1767] The order of the sections differs considerably from the published version which also includes chapters on history and arts and sciences as well as tables of exports and imports.
		Researchers wishing to consult the archives or seeking further information should contact The Library, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London, Senate House Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/58/6992.htm (250 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Alexander, William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The son of a coachbuilder, he was apprenticed to Julius Caesar Ibbetson before enrolling in 1784 at the Royal Academy Schools, London.
		In 1792 he accepted the post (previously declined by Ibbetson) of draughtsman to George, 1st Earl Macartney, on his embassy to China.
		As the embassy returned by inland waterway from Beijing to Canton, Alexander made detailed sketches of the Chinese hinterland—something achieved by no British artist previously and by very few subsequently.
	www.artnet.com /library/00/0017/T001712.asp (193 words)

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