BOY IN CHINA
SIR GEORGE STAUNTON’S LIFE. The life <0 Sir George Staunton is easily summari.sed He was tin? only surviving child of Sir George Leonard Staunton, and was b< rn near Salisbury in 1781 lie was educated privately and made rajad progress. Ho went fur a short tune to Trinity College at Cambridge. He held a post m the East India’s faeu.iy i' i,’anti n in China. Hr introduced vaccination into China He became chief <>f the factory. In ; 23 he i:<.i-o|>i rated with Henry Tii(,ma? C’dcbnuikv in founding tile R-vte Asiatic Saeictr. giving three th’ ;-a:M Chun- •- bo-.<ks to it?; library. Ile died nnmar; wd in 1859, Nteihiiig « h all this is shrilling. But ’!:<• ihrdliiu; ■■ 'iiat a a bov e.f 12 >r 13 h<? helped '<> link east ami west ;ii a o woww v.;iy m 1792 Lord Macai'w v n.i fr- -n England h< : ,<: , • friendly and ’ ■ ’J:* I i < ’ ’ ,1 I ;’': , i ’ I ? ’ I)(' ' \\ ’h < * *AV j , o . w m p.m -At n: Ins ■ , On 'i;i way ut lie learnt Chinese! : a: • tjicci: and ,il - x ; •••! ’belli,'! x'l; i', li.irc, ' • ;;o’i : i‘.i .id a re,i< !-,c<t i ‘lsma ':. ■■ .. * ',. - '■ pel* J: ■» I : ... ' — I;e >' ;';o,.r’ company. pc 90 wagami i o.a i‘ . ,< , '1 a. d .;>kl ■ i( : ail C :’ti tiwawcw. fm the Eloy. n'mpt.-tcr L" .. ! ■ .... _ t ■, 0. ‘o i —1 > . c .jtp O;.- *.;i*. - f■: 4 ■ - O'. ; •—. -a .<U4* ,n pre.lt-
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 7
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232BOY IN CHINA Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 7
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