Candido Gutierres was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1848.
Selected Bibliography: Williams, Samuel Wells (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 17, January to December, 1848. Canton: 1848.
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Thursday, October 2, 2014
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Glew, Joseph Thomas
Updated October 4, 2014
Joseph Thomas Glew, auctioneer's assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1848. He was under the employment of the mercantile firm and auction house, Smith & Brimelow, in 1846.
Two individuals and two firms were listed as underwriters and general auctioneers in the 1850 Hong Kong Almanack and Directory, arranged according to priority of license. They were: John Currie, W. H. Franklyn, Smith & Brimelow and McEwen & Co.
Joseph Thomas Glew, auctioneer's assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1848. He was under the employment of the mercantile firm and auction house, Smith & Brimelow, in 1846.
Two individuals and two firms were listed as underwriters and general auctioneers in the 1850 Hong Kong Almanack and Directory, arranged according to priority of license. They were: John Currie, W. H. Franklyn, Smith & Brimelow and McEwen & Co.
Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850. Williams, Samuel Wells (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 17, January to December, 1848. Canton: 1848.
Updated October 2, 2014
Q.A. Gutierres, mercantile assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was under the employment of the mercantile firm, Thomas Ripley & Co., in 1846.
Q.A. Gutierres, mercantile assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was under the employment of the mercantile firm, Thomas Ripley & Co., in 1846.
Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.
Updated October 4, 2014
James Grant, mercantile assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1848. He was employed by the mercantile firm, Jardine, Matheson & Co., as an assistant in 1846.
James Grant, mercantile assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1848. He was employed by the mercantile firm, Jardine, Matheson & Co., as an assistant in 1846.
Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850. Williams, Samuel Wells (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 17, January to December, 1848. Canton: 1848.
Updated October 17, 2014
W.H. Goddard, solicitor and attorney, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1846. He was admitted to practice as an attorney in Hong Kong on January 13, 1844. He was further admitted as a barrister in Hong Kong on August 19, 1845. Stanley Street was listed as his address between 1844 and 1846.
W.H. Goddard, solicitor and attorney, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1846. He was admitted to practice as an attorney in Hong Kong on January 13, 1844. He was further admitted as a barrister in Hong Kong on August 19, 1845. Stanley Street was listed as his address between 1844 and 1846.
Selected Bibliography: Hong Kong's First [interent]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.
Updated September 23, 2014
The Rev. William Gillespie, Presbyterian Minister, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from July 1844 to 1847. He carried on missionary work for the London Missionary Society. He had made no less than two attempts to begin mission work in Canton, first in 1845, at which time he was driven out by the hostile populace. His second attempt was made in October 1847, although successful, he soon returned to Hong Kong and from thence to Britain.
Gillespie was born in 1819. He was a member of the Presbyterian United Secession Church and was recruited by the London Missionary Society to mission in China. He went to China the last time in 1849 after having married the previous year. He work in Canton alone for about a year and returned to Scotland to become the pastor of United Presbyterian churches in Shiels, Aberdeenshire.
Publications: The Land of Sinim: or China and Chinese Missions, Edinburgh: Myles Macphail, 1854.
The Rev. William Gillespie, Presbyterian Minister, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from July 1844 to 1847. He carried on missionary work for the London Missionary Society. He had made no less than two attempts to begin mission work in Canton, first in 1845, at which time he was driven out by the hostile populace. His second attempt was made in October 1847, although successful, he soon returned to Hong Kong and from thence to Britain.
Gillespie was born in 1819. He was a member of the Presbyterian United Secession Church and was recruited by the London Missionary Society to mission in China. He went to China the last time in 1849 after having married the previous year. He work in Canton alone for about a year and returned to Scotland to become the pastor of United Presbyterian churches in Shiels, Aberdeenshire.
Publications: The Land of Sinim: or China and Chinese Missions, Edinburgh: Myles Macphail, 1854.
Selected Bibliography: Standaert, Nicolas (Ed.), Handbook of Christianity in China, Vo. 2, Leiden (The Netherlands); Koninkijke Brill NV, 2010, p.153. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.
Updated October 4, 2014
J. Gilbert, surgeon, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1848. He was a private practitioner in 1846.
J. Gilbert, surgeon, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1848. He was a private practitioner in 1846.
Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850. Williams, Samuel Wells (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 17, January to December, 1848. Canton: 1848.
Updated October 17, 2014
Michael Gabriel, hotelier, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He ran the British Hotel, which was located at Graham Street, in 1846.
Michael Gabriel, hotelier, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He ran the British Hotel, which was located at Graham Street, in 1846.
Selected Bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.
Updated September 23, 2014
A. Guichard, storekeeper's assistant, was listed as resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was under the employment of storekeeper F. Funck in 1846.
A. Guichard, storekeeper's assistant, was listed as resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was under the employment of storekeeper F. Funck in 1846.
Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.
Updated September 22, 2014
Apolinario Gutieres, solicitor's clerk, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was under the employment of solicitor Edward Farncomb in 1846.
Apolinario Gutieres, solicitor's clerk, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was under the employment of solicitor Edward Farncomb in 1846.
Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
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Giovarni, Cachi
Updated September 21, 2014
Cachi Giovarni, tavern-keeper, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He ran a tavern named Golden Tavern, which was located at Tai-ping-shan.
Cachi Giovarni, tavern-keeper, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He ran a tavern named Golden Tavern, which was located at Tai-ping-shan.
Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
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Gordon, Alexander Thomas
Updated October 11, 2014
Alexander Thomas Gordon, architect, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1843 to 1846. He was the Surveyor General of Hong Kong between 1843 and 1846. He was a Justice of the Piece in 1843[1]. Gordon designed the Seamen's Hospital which opened in 1843.
Alexander Thomas Gordon, architect, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1843 to 1846. He was the Surveyor General of Hong Kong between 1843 and 1846. He was a Justice of the Piece in 1843[1]. Gordon designed the Seamen's Hospital which opened in 1843.
[1] He was one of the first 44 Justices of Peace ever to be appointed in Hong Kong. Their appointments were announced by Henry Pottinger on the fifth day after he had sworn in as the first Colonial Governor. The date was June 30 ,1843.
Selected Bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online]. Hong Kong Institute of Architects [online]. Lam Chung-wai, Tony, From British Colonization to Japanese Invasion, the 100 Years Architects in Hong Kong 1841-1941. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.
Updated September 10, 2014
Charles Van Megen Gillespie, merchant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1841 to ca.1848. Significantly, Gillespie was the first American to reside in the British Hong Kong.
He was the founder and proprietor of the mercantile firm C.V. Gillespie 記唎士庇行 (also known as 花旗記唎士庇行). He owned a warehouse built in 1842 at #46 Queen's Road, at which place he also carried on the trading of wine and liquor, chandlery supplies, piece goods, building materials, etc.
Gillespie had a brother, Archibald Hamilton Gillespie, a lieutenant in the US Marines, who fought against Mexicans after the United States took control of California in August 1846.
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Eliza Gillespie (b. July 11, 1819 – d. 1911) was born to a fourth generation immigrant family originated in Scotland, which had rooted in New York since the turn of the Eighteenth Century. She was daughter of David Gillespie (b.1789-d.1824) and Mary S. Post (b.ca.1789-d.bef.1825). She and her sister Elizabeth McDougall Gillespie (b.1814-d.1837) went to join their brother, Charles Van Megen Gillespie (b.1810-d. Unknown) in China in 1830s. Charles ran businesses and lived between Hong Kong, Macau and Canton. He owned a godown (storage house), and ran auction and mercantile businesses at No. 46 Queens Road. Elizabeth McDougall died from illness in 1837 and was buried in Macau. Eliza and Anderson left Hong Kong in 1846; Charles and his family by the end of the following year. Instead of returning home in New York, Charles took his family to San Francisco where they arrived on the brigantine Eagle on February 2, 1848. His arrival somehow turned into a remarkable historical event when latter day historians declared that the three servants (two unnamed men and a woman called Marie Seise -- no one seemed to know her Chinese name; she was once married to a Portuguese sailor named Seise) he brought with him from China, the first Chinese immigrants to the United States. Having settled down in San Francisco, Charles became very busy engaging in a variety of activities: as a notary public and searcher of records, and a real estate broker, in addition to running an importing firm for Chinese goods. He had (in essence but not as a right) a monopoly of the business of examination of wills, and above all else launched a company named Fidelity National that would eventually become Fidelity National Financial. FNF ranked 472 in the 2012 Fortune 500 ranking. Eliza's another brother was the famous U.S. Marine Lieutenant (later Captain, and Major) Archibald Hamilton Gillespie who made his name during the Mexican-American War, which I would not go into details here. Archibald was remembered by the naming of destroyer USS Gillespie (DD-609) and the Gillespie Field airport in El Cajon, California.
Charles Van Megen Gillespie, merchant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1841 to ca.1848. Significantly, Gillespie was the first American to reside in the British Hong Kong.
He was the founder and proprietor of the mercantile firm C.V. Gillespie 記唎士庇行 (also known as 花旗記唎士庇行). He owned a warehouse built in 1842 at #46 Queen's Road, at which place he also carried on the trading of wine and liquor, chandlery supplies, piece goods, building materials, etc.
Gillespie had a brother, Archibald Hamilton Gillespie, a lieutenant in the US Marines, who fought against Mexicans after the United States took control of California in August 1846.
Selected Bibliography: The Friend of China, March 24, 1842, p.4. Hong Kong's First [online]. Sinn, Elizabeth, Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Uinversity Press, 2013.
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Eliza Gillespie (b. July 11, 1819 – d. 1911) was born to a fourth generation immigrant family originated in Scotland, which had rooted in New York since the turn of the Eighteenth Century. She was daughter of David Gillespie (b.1789-d.1824) and Mary S. Post (b.ca.1789-d.bef.1825). She and her sister Elizabeth McDougall Gillespie (b.1814-d.1837) went to join their brother, Charles Van Megen Gillespie (b.1810-d. Unknown) in China in 1830s. Charles ran businesses and lived between Hong Kong, Macau and Canton. He owned a godown (storage house), and ran auction and mercantile businesses at No. 46 Queens Road. Elizabeth McDougall died from illness in 1837 and was buried in Macau. Eliza and Anderson left Hong Kong in 1846; Charles and his family by the end of the following year. Instead of returning home in New York, Charles took his family to San Francisco where they arrived on the brigantine Eagle on February 2, 1848. His arrival somehow turned into a remarkable historical event when latter day historians declared that the three servants (two unnamed men and a woman called Marie Seise -- no one seemed to know her Chinese name; she was once married to a Portuguese sailor named Seise) he brought with him from China, the first Chinese immigrants to the United States. Having settled down in San Francisco, Charles became very busy engaging in a variety of activities: as a notary public and searcher of records, and a real estate broker, in addition to running an importing firm for Chinese goods. He had (in essence but not as a right) a monopoly of the business of examination of wills, and above all else launched a company named Fidelity National that would eventually become Fidelity National Financial. FNF ranked 472 in the 2012 Fortune 500 ranking. Eliza's another brother was the famous U.S. Marine Lieutenant (later Captain, and Major) Archibald Hamilton Gillespie who made his name during the Mexican-American War, which I would not go into details here. Archibald was remembered by the naming of destroyer USS Gillespie (DD-609) and the Gillespie Field airport in El Cajon, California.
Updated August 17, 2014
Missionary, the Netherlands Missionary Society. Interpreter to the British envoy and plenipotentiary in China and superintendent of British trade. Hong Kong Civil Service: Chinese Secretary 撫華道 (1843-51, died in office).
Alias Charles Gützlaff. Name variations: in Chinese 郭實臘.
Publications: Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 and 1833, with notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands. A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern. China Opened Life of Tao Kwang.
[Gützlaff learned Chinese when he was in Java in 1826, sent there by the Netherlands Missionary Society. Before landing in China, he was in Singapore and Siam. Incidentally, he was the first Christian Protestant missionary to have worked in Siam.]
[Cooperating with Walter Henry Medhurst, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, and John Robert Morrison, Gützlaff set out to translate the Bible into Chinese in 1840. The translation of the Hebrew part was done mostly by Gützlaff , with the exception that the Pentateuch and the book of Joshua were done by the group collectively. This translation, completed seven years later, is quite remarkable due to its adoption by the revolutionary peasant leader Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全) of the Taiping Rebellion (太平天國) as some of the reputed early doctrines of the organization.]
[Gützlaff was appointed to a commission in 1844 to consider and recommend compensation to villages whose ancestral burying ground were to be relocated to facilitate a major drainage improvement project for Happy Valley. Gützlaff did most of the work interviewing the villages and attempting to ascertain current values.]
[Gützlaff founded the Chinese Evangelization Society (中國傳教會) for the purpose of sending religious workers to China. In 1853, Hudson Taylor (戴德生), from England became the first missionary to be sent to China by the Society. The society was disbanded in 1865. Gützlaff was honored the name "The Apostle of China".]
The following is what I wrote about Gützlaff on one of my other blogs, Hong Kong's First, back in May 2010. Some updates have been made since the story was published.
"Son of a tailor and originally trained to become a saddle-maker, Karl Frederick August Gützlaff (b.1803, Pyritz, Pomerania – d.1851, Hong Kong) was a Prussian born missionary sent to Indonesia by the Netherlands Missionary Society who went to China on his own account because of his keen interest in the country. He was the real life “Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” - a man who lived in total confusion with respect to his true identity. He was a Prussian who anglicized himself as Charles Gützlaff, who authored books in the English language, but dressed himself like a Chinese always (particularly in the look of boat people). As a gifted linguist, he translated the Bible into the Chinese language. As a gifted linguist, he helped William Jardine sold opium to Chinese by interpreting for the latter’s trafficking operation up and down the China coast, enthusiastically and took money for his service.
As a Christian clergy whose objective was missionary work in China, Gützlaff played an undisputed role in the First Opium War by spying for the British arm forces[1], by interpreting for the British superintendency, and by actively involved in the possession of Chinese territories fallen into British forces[2].
In 1843, Gützlaff succeed John Robert Morrison, who died in office, as the second Chinese Secretary of the Hong Kong Government. Here is a further example of how mixed up Gützlaff was: as a government official, he spent two hours each day in the morning and provided a private service to foreign residents in Hong Kong who wished to enquire into the character of local watchmen they intended to hire and issued his certificate in respect of those he believed to be honest. He charged a fee for his service.
Gützlaff had three wives, all English women. He married a wealthy missionary Maria Newell (b.ca.1794-d.1831) on November 26, 1829 in Siam. Newell was sent to Malacca as the first unmarried female missionary by the London Missionary Society in 1827 to work as a teacher in a school for girls. Newell died from child birth in February 1831; Gützlaff inherited considerable resources from her. In 1834, he married Mary Wanstall (b.1799-d.1849) who ran a school and a home for blinds in Macau. Wanstall was a cousin of Gützlaff’s colleague, a translator for Henry Pottenger by the name of Harry Parkes, who would later became the Biritsh Minister in Peking. The two had no children but adopted two blind Chinese girls, one of whom was educated in England and returned to teach blind girls in a Ningbo school. Wanstall died in 1849. He married Dorothy Gabriel in England on September 17, 1850 while touring Europe giving lectures about China. He died a year later. There were also reports that pointed to two Chinese concubines he kept in Ningbo; their names were unknown.
Gützlaff died in Hong Kong in 1851 leaving behind quite a sizable estate and a questionable legacy, but keeping with him a secret he hided about the "Chinese Union", an evangelistic organ he established in Hong Kong in 1844. It was revealed years after his death that a good number of Chinese evangelists he trained, under the auspices of Chinese Union, and sent to China were unconverted opium-smokers and criminals who had duped him by selling the evangelistic literature to the printer, who then resold it to him. Gützlaff was buried at the Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley. The Gutzlaff Street 吉士笠街 in Central was named after him. Additional reading: "Drug Money to Fund Printing of Bible"
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| "The Revd. Chas Gutzlaff : the Chinese missionary in the dress of a Fokien sailor" by George Chinnery, drawn on stone by R. J. Lane and printed by C. Hullmandel |
Alias Charles Gützlaff. Name variations: in Chinese 郭實臘.
Publications: Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 and 1833, with notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands. A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern. China Opened Life of Tao Kwang.
[Gützlaff learned Chinese when he was in Java in 1826, sent there by the Netherlands Missionary Society. Before landing in China, he was in Singapore and Siam. Incidentally, he was the first Christian Protestant missionary to have worked in Siam.]
[Cooperating with Walter Henry Medhurst, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, and John Robert Morrison, Gützlaff set out to translate the Bible into Chinese in 1840. The translation of the Hebrew part was done mostly by Gützlaff , with the exception that the Pentateuch and the book of Joshua were done by the group collectively. This translation, completed seven years later, is quite remarkable due to its adoption by the revolutionary peasant leader Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全) of the Taiping Rebellion (太平天國) as some of the reputed early doctrines of the organization.]
[Gützlaff was appointed to a commission in 1844 to consider and recommend compensation to villages whose ancestral burying ground were to be relocated to facilitate a major drainage improvement project for Happy Valley. Gützlaff did most of the work interviewing the villages and attempting to ascertain current values.]
[Gützlaff founded the Chinese Evangelization Society (中國傳教會) for the purpose of sending religious workers to China. In 1853, Hudson Taylor (戴德生), from England became the first missionary to be sent to China by the Society. The society was disbanded in 1865. Gützlaff was honored the name "The Apostle of China".]
Selected Bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846,1848 and 1850.
The following is what I wrote about Gützlaff on one of my other blogs, Hong Kong's First, back in May 2010. Some updates have been made since the story was published.
"Son of a tailor and originally trained to become a saddle-maker, Karl Frederick August Gützlaff (b.1803, Pyritz, Pomerania – d.1851, Hong Kong) was a Prussian born missionary sent to Indonesia by the Netherlands Missionary Society who went to China on his own account because of his keen interest in the country. He was the real life “Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” - a man who lived in total confusion with respect to his true identity. He was a Prussian who anglicized himself as Charles Gützlaff, who authored books in the English language, but dressed himself like a Chinese always (particularly in the look of boat people). As a gifted linguist, he translated the Bible into the Chinese language. As a gifted linguist, he helped William Jardine sold opium to Chinese by interpreting for the latter’s trafficking operation up and down the China coast, enthusiastically and took money for his service.
As a Christian clergy whose objective was missionary work in China, Gützlaff played an undisputed role in the First Opium War by spying for the British arm forces[1], by interpreting for the British superintendency, and by actively involved in the possession of Chinese territories fallen into British forces[2].
In 1843, Gützlaff succeed John Robert Morrison, who died in office, as the second Chinese Secretary of the Hong Kong Government. Here is a further example of how mixed up Gützlaff was: as a government official, he spent two hours each day in the morning and provided a private service to foreign residents in Hong Kong who wished to enquire into the character of local watchmen they intended to hire and issued his certificate in respect of those he believed to be honest. He charged a fee for his service.
Gützlaff had three wives, all English women. He married a wealthy missionary Maria Newell (b.ca.1794-d.1831) on November 26, 1829 in Siam. Newell was sent to Malacca as the first unmarried female missionary by the London Missionary Society in 1827 to work as a teacher in a school for girls. Newell died from child birth in February 1831; Gützlaff inherited considerable resources from her. In 1834, he married Mary Wanstall (b.1799-d.1849) who ran a school and a home for blinds in Macau. Wanstall was a cousin of Gützlaff’s colleague, a translator for Henry Pottenger by the name of Harry Parkes, who would later became the Biritsh Minister in Peking. The two had no children but adopted two blind Chinese girls, one of whom was educated in England and returned to teach blind girls in a Ningbo school. Wanstall died in 1849. He married Dorothy Gabriel in England on September 17, 1850 while touring Europe giving lectures about China. He died a year later. There were also reports that pointed to two Chinese concubines he kept in Ningbo; their names were unknown.
Gützlaff died in Hong Kong in 1851 leaving behind quite a sizable estate and a questionable legacy, but keeping with him a secret he hided about the "Chinese Union", an evangelistic organ he established in Hong Kong in 1844. It was revealed years after his death that a good number of Chinese evangelists he trained, under the auspices of Chinese Union, and sent to China were unconverted opium-smokers and criminals who had duped him by selling the evangelistic literature to the printer, who then resold it to him. Gützlaff was buried at the Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley. The Gutzlaff Street 吉士笠街 in Central was named after him. Additional reading: "Drug Money to Fund Printing of Bible"
[1] Gützlaff worked directly for the British Foreign Office long before the onset of the armed conflict between Britain and Qing China. His controlling officer was Major, later Lieutenant–Colonel, George A. Malcolm whose official position was "Secretary of Legation" of the trade Mission led by Pottinger. Gützlaff also ran a network of Chinese spies, sometime took on the identities as his assistants. Here are the names of some of the known agents: Liu Fu-kuei, Yu Te-chang, Ku Pao-lin, Pu Ting-pang, Pao Peng and Chen Ping-chiin.
[2] Gützlaff was one of the three interpreters[a] during the negotiations of the Treaty of Nanking. He was appointed magistrate of Chusan (Zhoushan) 舟山 following the British occupation of the island in 1841, and of Ningbo 寧波 in the same year and of Zhenjiang 鎮江 in the following year. He was the Superintendent of Trade at Dinghai 定海 (a district inside Zhoushan City on Zhoushan Island) from November 1842 till the autumn of 1843."
[2] Gützlaff was one of the three interpreters[a] during the negotiations of the Treaty of Nanking. He was appointed magistrate of Chusan (Zhoushan) 舟山 following the British occupation of the island in 1841, and of Ningbo 寧波 in the same year and of Zhenjiang 鎮江 in the following year. He was the Superintendent of Trade at Dinghai 定海 (a district inside Zhoushan City on Zhoushan Island) from November 1842 till the autumn of 1843."
[a] The other two were J. Robert Morrison and Rober Thom. Thom (b.1807-d.1846) had worked for Jardine, Matheson & Co. in Canton. His Chinese education was sponsored by William Jardine, James Matheson and Henry Wright. Thom, appointed Britsh Consul at Ningpo (Ningbo) 寧波市 in 1843 formally opened Ningbo as a Treaty Port on January 1, 1844.
Updated August 9, 2014
Venancio Gutierres, office assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1850. He was employed by the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) 大英火輪船公司 as an assistant in 1850.
Venancio Gutierres, office assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1850. He was employed by the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) 大英火輪船公司 as an assistant in 1850.
Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846,1848 and 1850.
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