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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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    The Macartney Embassy (Chinese: 馬加爾尼使團), also called the Macartney Mission, was the first British diplomatic mission to China, which took place in 1793...
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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 may refer to: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737–1806) George Macartney (British consul) (1867–1945) Lord Macartney (1782 EIC ship)...
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  • McCartney or Macartney (Irish: Mac Cartaine) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Paul McCartney (born 1942), English singer/songwriter...
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    diplomats, such as the British George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1793) and William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1816), refused submission before...
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  • George Macartney (died 1724), MP for Belfast George McCartney, 1st Earl McCartney (1737–1806), first British Ambassador to China George Hume Macartney (1793–1869)...
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    family as George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, the 18th century British ambassador to China (see Macartney Embassy).: 2  Macartney was born near Castle...
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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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    Chinese wallpaper brought back by Britain's first ambassador to China, Earl Macartney in 1794, and presented to Thomas Coutts, which lines the walls of the...
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  • the eldest son of George Macartney, surveyor of Belfast, and his first wife Jane Calderwood; George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, was descended from his...
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    constitutional reformer in New South Wales, Australia George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737–1806), from Ballymoney, first British Ambassador to China...
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    First British occupation (1797–1803) Name Period Title George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney 1797–1798 Governor Francis Dundas (1st time) 1798–1799 Acting...
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  • surname Macartney under the will of his granduncle, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney. He was Conservative MP for Antrim from 1852 to 1858. Gunn &...
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    National Convention. June – The Macartney Embassy, a British diplomatic mission to China led by George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, reaches Canton, but will...
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    Lady Anne Barnard (category Daughters of Scottish earls)
    entertaining at the Castle of Good Hope as the official hostess of Earl Macartney. The remarkable series of letters, journals and drawings she produced...
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    This diplomatic and trade mission was headed by George, Earl Macartney. Although the Macartney Embassy returned to London without obtaining any concession...
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    Embassy & Voyage to China. Abridged Principally from the Papers of Earl Macartney..., J. Stockdale, pp. 279–280 Reichwein, A. (2013), China and Europe...
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  • internal passports in South Africa were introduced on 27 June 1797 by the Earl Macartney in an attempt to prevent Africans from entering the Cape Colony. The...
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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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  • Lenihan, politician, former Minister for Finance George Macartney, British statesman (1st Earl Macartney) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, politician Richard Graves...
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    Staunton, who accompanied him as second commissioner, refused to consent, as Macartney had done in 1793, unless the admission was made that his sovereign was...
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    England. He then traveled as far as Peking, China with George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney as the expedition's official portrait painter. He returned to...
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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 Communist...
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    in 1779. In 1784, he accompanied his lifelong friend George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, whom he first met in the West Indies, to Madras to negotiate...
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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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  • niece of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont. They had six children, two sons and four daughters, including : Francis Macartney MP, who died in 1759, before...
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    Governors 5 May 1797 to 20 November 1798 George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney Known for the 1793 Macartney Embassy to China 20 November 1798 to 9 December...
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    the highest number of county titles in Antrim (20). George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806), British statesman, colonial administrator...
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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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