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See also:MACARTNEY, See also:GEORGE MACARTNEY, See also:EARL (1737-1806) , was descended from an old Scottish See also:family, the Macartneys of Auchinleck, who had settled in 1649 at Lissanoure, See also:Antrim, See also:Ireland, where he was See also:born on the 14th of May 1737. After graduating at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, in 1759, he became a student of the See also:Temple, See also:London. Through See also:Stephen See also:Fox, See also:elder See also:brother of C. J. Fox, he was taken up by See also:Lord See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland. Appointed See also:envoy extraordinary to See also:Russia in 1764, he succeeded in negotiating an See also:alliance between See also:England and that See also:country. After occupying a seat in the See also:English See also:parliament, he was in 1769 returned for Antrim in the Irish parliament, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:discharge the duties of See also:chief secretary for Ireland. On resigning this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he was knighted. In 1775 he became See also:governor of the Caribbee Islands (being created an Irish See also:baron in 1776), and in 1780 governor of See also:Madras, but he declined the governor-generalship of See also:India, and returned to England in 1786. After being created Earl Macartney in the Irish See also:peerage (1792), he was appointed the first envoy of See also:Britain to See also:China. On his return from a confidential See also:mission to See also:Italy (1795) he was raised to the English peerage as a baron in 1796, and in the end of the same See also:year was appointed governor of the newly acquired territory of the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope, where he remained till See also:ill See also:health compelled him to resign in See also:November 1798. He died at See also:Chiswick, See also:Middlesex, on the 31st of May 1806, the See also:title becoming See also:extinct, and his See also:property, after the See also:death of his widow (daughter of the 3rd earl of See also:Bute), going to his niece, whose son took the name.
An See also:account of Macartney's See also:embassy to China, by See also:Sir George See also:Staunton, was published in 1797, and has been frequently reprinted. The See also:Life and Writings of Lord Macartney, by Sir See also:John See also:Barrow, appeared in 1807. See Mrs See also:Helen Macartney Robbins's See also:biography, The First English See also:Ambassador to China (1908), based on previously unpublished materials in See also:possession of the family.
End of Article: MACARTNEY, GEORGE MACARTNEY, EARL (1737-1806)
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