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George S. Morrison (diplomat)

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served in his stead until Morrison's arrival on 6 August 1859. Morrison served as British Consul until December 1863. During Morrison's initial two-year term he established regulations for British citizens in Nagasaki, negotiated living and conditions trade between the foreign settlement and
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Japanese officials, made plans for an enlarged British Consulate, and generally established guidelines for the treaty port at Nagasaki based upon previous experience in China.
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Morrison returned to Nagasaki in April 1863, at a time when conditions for foreigners in the region were particularly dangerous.
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Morrison's term in Nagasaki was cut short when he and other British officials were attacked by samurai from the
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Nagasaki Foreign Settlement Research Group; The People of the Nagasaki Foreign Settlement; British Consulate
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Attack on the British legation in Edo (Illustrated London News, 1861)
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domain on the night of 5 July 1861 at the British Legation in
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and Eliza Morrison, George Staunton Morrison was born in
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British
Robert Morrison
Macau
Sir George Staunton
consul
Nagasaki
foreign settlement
C. Pemberton Hodgson

Mito
Edo
Laurence Oliphant
England
Satsuma
Chōshū
bakufu
treaty ports
Nice
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