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STAUNTON, SIR GEORGE THOMAS, BART

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 815 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
STAUNTON, SIR GEORGE THOMAS, BART . (17811859), English traveller and Orientalist, was born near Salisbury on the 26th of May 1781. He was the son of Sir George Leonard
Staunton (1737-1801), first baronet, diplomatist and Orientalist, and in 1792 accompanied his father, who had been appointed secretary to Lord Macartney's mission to China, to the Far
East
 . He acquired a good knowledge of Chinese, and in 1798 was appointed a writer in the
East
  India Company's factory at Canton, and subsequently its
chief
 . In 1805 he translated a
work
  of Dr George Pearson into Chinese, thereby introducing vaccination into China. In 1816 he proceeded as second
commissioner
  on a
special
  mission to Pekin with Lord Amherst and Sir
Henry
  Ellis. Between 1818 and 1852 he was M.P. for several English constituencies, finally for Portsmouth. He was a member of the East India Committee, and in 1823, in con-junction with
Henry
 
Thomas
  Colebroke founded the Royal Asiatic Society. He died on the loth of August 1859.
His publications include translations of Ta Tsing leu lee, being the Fundamental Laws of China (181o), the first Chinese book translated into English, and of the Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars (1821); Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China and our Commercial Intercourse with that Country (1822); Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences during the British Embassy to Peking (1824) ; Observations on our Chinese Commerce (1850). For the Hakluyt Society he edited Gonzalez de Mendoza's History of the
Great
  and Mighty Kingdom of China.


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