STAUNTON, George Thomas.

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Memoirs of the Chief Incidents of the Public Life of Sir George Thomas Staunton. First edition. the first part covering the period from the Macartney Mission to his final departure from China in 1817. The appendices include a list of subscribers to Staunton's endowment for a new professorship in Chinese at King's College, London. The gift of his library to King's in 1853, secured the legacy of an extraordinary figure in early Sino-British relations.Back in England, Staunton settled down to parliamentary and academic life. "Between 1818 and 1850 he travelled extensively in Europe. Staunton was FRS (1803), DCL of Oxford (1818), and sometime foreign secretary of the Royal Academy, parliamentary trustee of the Hunterian collection, and vice-president of the British Association of Science. In 1823 he was a founder of the Royal Asiatic Society, to which he presented his collection of 3000 Chinese volumes" (ODNB). He began writing this book in 1836.

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