Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Baronet Bt GCB PC (Chinese: 砵甸乍, 璞鼎查; pinyin: Bōdiānzhà; 3 October 1789 – 18 March 1856), was an Anglo-Irish...
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Pottinger or Pöttinger may refer to: Pottinger Allison Pottinger (b. 1973), American curler Damien Pottinger (b. 1982), Canadian professional soccer player...
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the Yangtze at the city. On 29 August, British representative Sir Henry Pottinger and Qing representatives Keying, Yilibu, and Niu Jian signed the treaty...
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Henry Pottinger Stephens (c. 1851 – 11 February 1903), was an English dramatist and journalist. After beginning his career writing for newspapers, Stephens...
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distracted mainly by the Napoleonic Wars. In 1810, British Lieutenant Henry Pottinger and Captain Charles Christie undertook an expedition from Nushki (Balochistan)...
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paved unevenly by granite stone steps. It was named in 1858 after Henry Pottinger, the first Governor of Hong Kong, serving from 1843 to 1844. It is...
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Henry Beauchamp may refer to: Henry Pottinger Stephens (1851–1903), known as Henry Beauchamp, English dramatist and journalist Henry Beauchamp, Duke of...
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Bell Pottinger Private (legally BPP Communications Ltd.) was a British multinational public relations, reputation management and marketing company headquartered...
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to China on 1 July 1997.[citation needed] The first governor, Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Bt., resided at the site of the now Former French Mission Building...
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Lieutenant Henry Pottinger, to explore the regions between Balochistan and Persia, which was then allied with the British. Christie and Pottinger traveled...
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replaced as Superintendent by Henry Pottinger, who arrived in Hong Kong on 10 August to begin his administration. Pottinger wanted to negotiate terms with...
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disobedience and treating his instructions as "waste paper", dismissed him. Henry Pottinger was appointed to replace him as plenipotentiary in May 1841. On 29...
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Company William Olpherts - General, Indian army Eldred Pottinger, Major East India Company Henry Pottinger - Lieutenant General, East India Company Abraham...
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Pretorius went to Grahamstown to seek an audience with the governor, Sir Henry Pottinger, but he refused to see Pretorius or receive any communication from...
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Reversed, which was performed at the Gaiety Theatre with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens and W. Webster, and a score composed by Wilhelm Meyer Lutz...
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United Kingdom. It was created on 27 April 1840 for Lieutenant-General Henry Pottinger, the first Governor of Hong Kong from 1843 to 1844. His eldest son...
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Colonel (afterwards knighted and promoted to Lieutenant General) Henry Pottinger. In 1837 he made a journey through Afghanistan in disguise. Arriving...
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to conclude the First Opium War, imperial commissioner Qiying and Henry Pottinger concluded the Treaty of Nanjing aboard the British warship HMS Cornwallis...
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Queen's Road. There was no flat land, so during the brief tenure of Sir Henry Pottinger, the first governor of the colony, from 1841 to 1844, streets of steps...
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fame for his fight against bushrangers. Pottinger was born in India, son of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pottinger of the British East India Company, and...
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Convention of Chuenpi (category Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston)
believed Qishan conceded too much. Palmerston appointed Major-General Henry Pottinger to replace Elliot, while the emperor appointed Yang Fang to replace...
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1847: Correspondence between the governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Henry Pottinger, and the commander of the British forces at the Cape, Sire George Berkeley...
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Edward (1843). Narrative of a Voyage Round the World. Volume 2. London: Henry Colburn. p. 148. Tsang 2004, p. 12. Driscoll, Mark W. (2020). The Whites...
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the four houses: Shaw, Currie, Pottinger or Cairns, named after past pupils: James Shaw, Donald Currie, Henry Pottinger, and Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns...
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Mooki River, near Gunnedah. Pottinger County was named in honour of the first Governor of Hong Kong Sir Henry Pottinger, first Baronet (1789-1856). A...
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bookbinders, while its carpet dealers traded carpets from nearby Thatta. Henry Pottinger traveled up the Indus River in the early 1830s on behalf of the British...
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Cornwallis in Nanjing. On 29 August 1842, British representative Sir Henry Pottinger and Qing representatives, Qiying, Yilibu and Niujian, signed the Treaty...
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The Red Hussar (category Libretti by Henry Pottinger Stephens)
a comedy opera in three acts by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens, concerning a young ballad singer who disguises herself as...
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1885 and in Melbourne, Australia, in 1886. The show was written by Henry Pottinger Stephens and William Yardley, with music composed and arranged by Wilhelm...
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Dents' opium ships from 1832. Following the First Opium War, Governor Henry Pottinger proposed using Quanzhou as an official opium depot to keep the trade...
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