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See also:STAUNTON, See also:SIR See also:GEORGE See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS, See also:BART . (1781–1859), See also:English traveller and Orientalist, was See also:born near See also:Salisbury on the 26th of May 1781. He was the son of Sir George Leonard
Staunton (1737-1801), first See also:baronet, diplomatist and Orientalist, and in 1792 accompanied his See also:father, who had been appointed secretary to See also:Lord See also:Macartney's See also:mission to See also:China, to the Far See also:East. He acquired a See also:good knowledge of See also:Chinese, and in 1798 was appointed a writer in the East See also:India See also:Company's factory at See also:Canton, and subsequently its See also:chief. In 1805 he translated a See also:work of Dr George See also:Pearson into Chinese, thereby introducing See also:vaccination into China. In 1816 he proceeded as second See also:commissioner on a See also:special mission to See also:Pekin with Lord See also:Amherst and Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Ellis. Between 1818 and 1852 he was M.P. for several English constituencies, finally for See also:Portsmouth. He was a member of the East India See also:Committee, and in 1823, in See also:con-junction with Henry Thomas Colebroke founded the Royal See also:Asiatic Society. He died on the loth of See also:August 1859.
His publications include See also:translations of Ta Tsing leu See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
lee, being the Fundamental See also:Laws of China (181o), the first Chinese See also:book translated into English, and of the Narrative of the Chinese See also:Embassy to the See also:Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars (1821); See also:Miscellaneous Notices See also:Relating to China and our Commercial Intercourse with that See also:Country (1822); Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences during the See also:British Embassy to See also:Peking (1824) ; Observations on our Chinese See also:Commerce (1850). For the See also:Hakluyt Society he edited Gonzalez de See also:Mendoza's See also:History of the See also:Great and Mighty See also:Kingdom of China.
End of Article: STAUNTON, SIR GEORGE THOMAS, BART
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