Group photograph of men at the Peking Club
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Material Information

Title:
Group photograph of men at the Peking Club
Series Title:
Papers of Reginald Follett Codrington Hedgeland
Alternate Title:
Group photograph of men at the Peking Club
Donor:
Nation-Dixon, M. L., Mrs.
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1 item

Notes

Abstract:
The photograph inlcudes H. Dawson-Gröne, W.R. Clouth, C.Thorne, W. McLeish and F.A. Aglen. ( en )
General Note:
The names of the individuals in the photograph are derived from the caption to a duplicate of this photograph, see PP MS 82/2/1/182. The duplicate is dated August 1904.
General Note:
Sir Francis Arthur Aglen was dismissed from the Chinese Maritime Customs Service in 1927 (cf, Byrne, Eugene. The dismissal of Sir Francis Aglen as inspector of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1927. Leeds : Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, 1995)
General Note:
The International Club was a community centre exclusively for diplomats living in Imperial China. It was represented in cities throughout China. According to Timothy L Schoer in "Empire, Ideology, Mass Violence: The Long 20th Century in Comparative Perspective" (Munich : Herbert Utz Verlag, 2016; Tobias Hof , editor), "officers of the eight foreign militaries in China continually socialized together across national lines and frequently engaged in ceremonies with varying degrees of formality that conveyed a shared, cosmopolitan civilization." See, https://www.utzverlag.de/assets/pdf/44331dbl.pdf
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] : Tianjin : URI http://www.geonames.org/1792947
General Note:
Tianjin was previously Romanised as Tientsin
General Note:
To order this photograph from physical storage, please reference: "PP MS 82 Box 3" and "PP MS 82/2/2/009"
General Note:
Donated by Mrs Nation Dixon in 2002; 2013
General Note:
VIAF (name authority) : Aglen, Francis Arthur, 1869- : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/17141797
General Note:
LCNAF (name authority) : Aglen, Francis Arthur, 1869- : http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99011942

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 82/2/2/009 ( SOAS Archives reference number )
He03-009 ( Historical Photographs of China identifier )