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|a PP MS 82/2/1/235 |2 SOAS Archives reference number |
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|a He01-235 |2 Historical Photographs of China identifier |
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|a Photograph captioned 'Custom House afloat on pontoons', 'West River motor vessel' |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a Custom House afloat on pontoons, West River motor vessel. |
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|a Papers of Reginald Follett Codrington Hedgeland. |
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|a Another print of this photograph can be found at PP MS 82/2/2/031. |
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|a 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. |
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|a GeoNames.org [name authority] : Nanning : URI http://www.geonames.org/1799869 |
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|a Guangxi was previously Romanised as Kwangsi |
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|a To order this photograph from physical storage, please reference: "PP MS 82 Box 3" and "PP MS 82/2/1/235" |
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|a Donated by Mrs Nation Dixon in 2002; 2013 |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS University of London, |d 2018. |f (SOAS Digital Collections) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a Customhouses -- Photographs. |
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|a Floods -- Photographs. |
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|a 亞洲 -- 中國 -- 廣西壯族自治區 -- 南寧市 -- 邕江. |
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|a 亚洲 -- 中国 -- 广西壮族自治区 -- 南宁市 -- 邕江. |
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|a China |b Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region |d Nanning |g West River. |
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|a Nation-Dixon, M. L., Mrs.. |4 dnr |
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|a SOAS Digital Collections. |
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|a Papers of Reginald Follett Codrington Hedgeland. |
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|a GBR |b SDC |c China Collection |
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|u http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOHE000234/00001 |y Electronic Resource |
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|a http://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/LO/HE/00/02/34/00001/LOHE000234_1thm.jpg |
