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    The Royal Commission on Opium was a British Royal Commission that investigated the opium trade in British India in 1893–1895, particularly focusing on the...
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    William Roberts (physician) (category Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians)
    Sino-Indian opium trade, the 1893–1895 Royal Commission on Opium was created to investigate the drug. Sir William Roberts was the medical expert on the commission...
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    appointed to the Royal Commission on Opium, which he thought was an official attempt to procrastinate in order to silence opposition to opium use and its trade...
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    Viceroy.[citation needed] He was also one of nine members of the Royal Commission on Opium of 1895, formed by the British Government. Haridas Viharidas Desai...
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    British government's Royal Commission on Opium visiting India but not China. Accordingly, the missionaries first organized the Anti-Opium League in China among...
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    appointment of a Royal Commission on Opium to India in 1893. The commission was tasked with ascertaining the impact of Indian opium exports to the Far...
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    Dewas (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    being a production centre of retail opium in the 1800s, as noted in the 1895 first report of the Royal Commission on Opium. Rapid industrialisation took place...
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    China. Opium was Britain's single most profitable commodity trade of the 19th century. After months of tensions between the two states, the Royal Navy launched...
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    Delaware Press. ISBN 978-0-87413-815-3. Royal Commission on Opium (1895) First Report of the Royal Commission on Opium: With Minutes of Evidence and Appendices...
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  • anti-opium campaign into the public eye and increased opposition to the trade. The Society's campaigning resulted in the creation of a Royal Commission on...
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  • industry in the mid-nineteenth century. History of opium in China Opium Wars Royal Commission on Opium Amar Farooqui, “Urban Development in a Colonial Situation:...
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    the Royal Commission on Opium of 1895, formed by British Government along with Haridas Viharidas Desai who was the Diwan of Junagadh. The Royal Opium Commission...
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    conference on the opium trade. Today, the Thai side of the river confluence, Sop Ruak, has become a tourist attraction, with the House of Opium Museum, a...
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    They were outraged that the British Royal Commission on Opium visited India but not China. They created the Anti-Opium League in China among their colleagues...
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    Delaware Press. ISBN 978-0-87413-815-3. Royal Commission on Opium (1895) First Report of the Royal Commission on Opium: With Minutes of Evidence and Appendices...
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    Hudson Taylor (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    autobiography published in 1894 in England Provided testimony to the Royal Commission on Opium as an opponent of the trade before 14 February 1894 in England...
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    Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (category People associated with the Royal National College for the Blind)
    Society's efforts eventually led to the creation of the investigative Royal Commission on Opium. The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus, London...
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    Secretary of the Royal Commission on Opium that his father chaired. Brassey was appointed a captain in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry on 19 January 1898...
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    Government of India. 1894. p. vii. "Medical evidence given before the Royal Commission on Opium". The Indian Medical Record. 6: 212–214. 1894. "Obituary". Proceedings...
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    Arthur Upton Fanshawe (category Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order)
    the creation of a Royal Commission on Opium to regulate the British opium trade in the Far East. Fanshawe, a supporter of the opium trade, was nominated...
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    in 1898, aged 60. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Opium in India from 1893 to 1895. He married on 14 April 1864 to Mary Lecky Pike. They had...
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    to be part of the Royal Opium Commission. The team consisted of 7 British and 2 Indians. For serving admirably on the royal commission Thomas Brassey, 1st...
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  • Problems". Kate Kelly, Pharmd (June 2003). "Recurring Confusion Between Opium Tincture and Paregoric". Pharmacy Times. Retrieved 2015-01-19. BNF (British...
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  • (25 January 1817–c. 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer and polar explorer. He fought in the First Opium War (1839-1842) where he distinguished himself...
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    Edmund Moubray Lyons (category Royal Navy personnel of the First Opium War)
    the Royal Naval College on 10 July 1829. He passed his examinations in 1838, and went out to the Far East where he served during the First Opium War....
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  • Place in the Society of Friends. Opium habit in the East: A study of the evidence given to the Royal Commission on Opium, 1893–94. P. S. King & Son: Westminster...
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    In the rest of the 19th Century the Royal Marines served in many landings especially in the First and Second Opium Wars (1839–1842 and 1856–1860) against...
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    Sir Robert Mowbray, 2nd Baronet (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
    1900. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Opium in India from 1893 to 1895, and a member of the Royal Commission on Indian Expenditure in 1896....
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    Regulation of Prostitution, from 1875. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Opium in India from 1893–95, Treasurer of the National Vigilance Association...
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