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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOHE000204/00001
Notes
- General Note:
- Bowring is listed as Acting Commissioner of Customs in "China : Report for the year 1908 on the trade of Wenchow, edited at the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade" (Great Britain. Diplomatic and consular reports. London, Harrison & Sons, 1909)
- General Note:
- This is likely Charles Talbot Bowring of whom Joseph Jackson Howard and Federick Arthur Crisp note in their Visitation of England and Wales, volume 6 ([London] : Privately printed, 1898): "Charles Talbot Bowring, born at Bangalore 15 December 1862, and bapt. same day ; entered Chinese Customs 1883, since served in Foochow, Pekin and Shanghai, Assistant Commissioner at Seoul, Corea, 1893-95 ; Mandarin of the 5th Class." This Bowring would have been approximately 40 years of age in this photograph.
- General Note:
- Reginald Follett Codrington Hedgeland was born in Exeter, Devon on December 18th 1874. He was educated at St Paul's School London and at Pembroke College, Oxford. After graduating in 1897 he joined the Chinese Maritime Customs Service in May 1898 and was posted to Kiungchang. He then went on to serve at Nanking, Tientsin, Lappa, Kowloon, Swatow and Nanning, of which latter port he was in charge for six years. He became Deputy Commissioner in 1917 and in April 1921 he was appointed Commissioner. On returning from leave in 1923 he was given charge of Aigun on the Amur river in Manchuria. He was subsequently in charge of Swatow and Canton, and retired in April 1930 while Commissioner at Hankow. He had a fluent command of Chinese, both of Mandarin and Cantonese and held the Order of the Chia Ho, 4th and 3rd Class, and 3rd Class with Brilliants; the 3rd Class of the Order of Wên Hu; and the Ordre Royal des Millions d'Élephants et du Parasol Blanc de Luang Prabang, France.
- General Note:
- GeoNames.org [name authority] : Qinhuangdao : URI http://www.geonames.org/1797595
- General Note:
- Qinhuangdao was previously Romanised as Ching Wang Tao or Chingwangtao
- General Note:
- To order this photograph from physical storage, please reference: "PP MS 82 Box 3" and "PP MS 82/2/1/205"
- General Note:
- Donated by Mrs Nation Dixon in 2002; 2013
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
- Resource Identifier:
- PP MS 82/2/1/205 ( SOAS Archives reference number )
He01-205 ( Historical Photographs of China identifier )
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