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George Tradescant Lay

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50:. The anticipations of trouble were abundantly realised. Mr. Lay, on landing, found the officials indisposed to grant him a suitable place for residence, and he noticed symptoms of a disposition to slight his authority. At the outset he had to be content with a site in the insalubrious vicinity of the river suburb. But by tactful negotiations he was ultimately able to acquire the lease for resident purposes of a temple on an eminence known as Black Stone Hill, overlooking the city. This temple was beautifully situated amid pleasant groves and terraced gardens and it constituted in every way an agreeable contrast to the ill-placed building at first set apart for the Consulate. 298: 46:. It was not, indeed, until the latter part of 1844 that steps were taken to introduce the Consular system there. The duty was then entrusted to Mr. Lay, who as an experienced official was well equipped for what was realised would be a difficult and delicate work owing to the fact that the Emperor had only with the greatest reluctance allowed Foochow to be included in the list of 245: 374: 191: 137:
from 1836 to 1839. During this time, he studied the Chinese language and culture. Upon returning to England in 1839, his experience in China helped him obtain a position of British
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Trade with China: a letter addressed to the British public on some of the advantages that would result from an occupation of the Bonin Islands
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #0047: Horatio Nelson Lay and Sino-British Relations, 1854-1864 by Jack J. Gerson
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The Chinese as They are: Their Moral Social and Literary Character
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following in his footsteps, was also a diplomat in China.
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He then went on to become a missionary in China for the
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration
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from 1825 to 1828, where he collected specimens in the
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of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China
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Index

British
naturalist
missionary
diplomat
Foochow
Treaty ports
Arnold Wright
Twentieth Century Impressions
p. 63
HMS Blossom
Frederick William Beechey
Pacific
California
Alaska
Kamchatka
China
Mexico
South America
Hawaii
Layia gaillardioides
Layia
British and Foreign Bible Society
Consul
Canton
Fuzhou
Amoy
fever
Horatio Nelson Lay
The Chinese as They are: Their Moral Social and Literary Character
Trade with China: a letter addressed to the British public on some of the advantages that would result from an occupation of the Bonin Islands

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