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    George Macartney should not be confused with Sir George Macartney, a later British statesman. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, KB, PC (Ire) (14 May...
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    mission to China, which took place in 1793. It is named for its leader, George Macartney, Great Britain's first envoy to China. The goals of the mission included...
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    residences. Macartney was born in Kashgar, China, to Sir George Macartney and Catherine Macartney, née Borland. He was the grandson of Halliday Macartney and...
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    Jane Stuart (c. 1748 – 28 February 1828), married George Macartney, later created Earl Macartney, on 1 February 1768 The Hon. Frederick Stuart (1751–1802)...
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    Lord Macartney was launched in 1782 as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC0 before she was sold in 1798. She...
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    same family as George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, the 18th century British ambassador to China (see Macartney Embassy).: 2  Macartney was born near...
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    Eccles 1675: George Macartney 1676: George Macartney 1677: George Macartney 1678: George Macartney 1679: George Macartney 1680: George Macartney 1681: Francis...
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    John; Macartney, George (1807) [1807]. The Public Life of the Earl of Macartney. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-108-02619-2...
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    appearance of Mr. Macartney reveals an unexpected streak of jealousy in the seemingly imperturbable Lord Orville. Convinced that Macartney is a rival for...
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    following the advice of Sir George Thomas Staunton, who accompanied him as second commissioner, refused to consent, as Macartney had done in 1793, unless...
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    ambassador in September 2020. 1792–1794: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney 1815-1817: William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst The United Kingdom recognized...
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    in turn. Hamilton's second thereafter claimed that Mohun's second George Macartney had dealt the final stroke to Hamilton whilst pretending to attend...
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    printed next to the title pages of volumes 1 and 2 show the Qianlong Emperor and George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, respectively. The general structure of...
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    Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute (category Hereditary peeresses of Great Britain created by George III)
    Jane Stuart (c. 1748 – 28 February 1828), married George Macartney, later created Earl Macartney, on 1 February 1768 The Hon Frederick Stuart (1751–1802)...
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    the Macartney Embassy to China. He accompanied the Earl of Macartney to Peking where he made drawings for the plates which accompanied Sir George Staunton's...
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    originates from the mid 18th century when it was named after George Macartney, the 1st Earl Macartney in England. According to the Global Invasive Species Database...
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    William Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (category Peers of Great Britain created by George III)
    daughter and coheir of James Macartney of Longford and his wife; Macartney was the nephew and coheir of Ambrose Aungier, 2nd Earl of Longford. They had three...
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  • ceremony, at Primrose Hill in London. September – Macartney Embassy: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, sails from Portsmouth in HMS Lion as the first...
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  • The book gives a sweeping narrative of the British Embassy of Sir George Macartney to the Qianlong Emperor of China in 1793. The book was translated into...
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    1762-1765 : John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire Ambassador Extraordinary 1764-1767 : George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney Envoy Extraordinary 1766-1767 :...
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    Second Anglo-Mysore War, but was suspended from command in 1782 by Lord Macartney, an action that provoked a duel between the two men. Stuart was a younger...
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  • with Arthur Phillip. June – the Macartney Embassy, a diplomatic mission to China led by George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, reaches Canton, but will be...
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    to England. He then traveled as far as Peking, China with George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney as the expedition's official portrait painter. He returned...
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  • 22 February – James Barry, painter (born 1741). 31 May – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (born 1737)...
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    Robbins, Helen Henrietta Macartney (1908). Our First Ambassador to China: An Account of the Life of George, Earl of Macartney with Extracts from His Letters...
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    guillotine for political reasons, in Paris. September – Macartney Embassy: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, sails from Portsmouth in HMS Lion as the first...
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  • Gillan joined the 1793 Macartney Embassy to China as a physician. The embassy was led by George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney. He was admitted a Licentiate...
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    James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury, GCB (21 April 1746 – 21 November 1820) was an English diplomat. Born at Salisbury, the son of James Harris, an MP...
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    regiment fought at the Capture of Grenada against British forces under George Macartney. They landed on 2 July, and stormed the Hospital Hill which the British...
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    Robbins, Helen Henrietta Macartney (1908). Our First Ambassador to China: An Account of the Life of George, Earl of Macartney with Extracts from His Letters...
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