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MACARTNEY, GEORGE MACARTNEY, EARL (1737-1806) , was descended from an old Scottish family, the Macartneys of Auchinleck, who had settled in 1649 at Lissanoure, Antrim, Ireland, where he was born on the 14th of May 1737. After graduating at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1759, he became a student of the Temple, London. Through Stephen Fox, elder brother of C. J. Fox, he was taken up by Lord Holland. Appointed envoy
parliament , he was in 1769 returned for Antrim in the Irish parliament , in order to discharge the duties of chief
governor of the Caribbee Islands (being created an Irish baron in 1776), and in 1780 governor of Madras
Earl
envoy
Hope
Chiswick
Middlesex , on the 31st 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 Macartney's embassy to China, by Sir George Staunton, was published in 1797, and has been frequently reprinted. The Life and Writings of Lord Macartney, by Sir John Barrow, appeared in 1807. See Mrs Helen Macartney Robbins's biography, The First English Ambassador to China (1908), based on previously unpublished materials in possession of the family.End of Article: MACARTNEY, GEORGE MACARTNEY, EARL (1737-1806) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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