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Born August 25, 1818 • London • England
Died July 31, 1895 (aged 76) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works “Peking Syllabary”
Subjects Of Study Chinese languages • Wade-Giles romanization
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British statesman
Sykes-Picot Agreement
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British diplomat
Donald Maclean
British diplomat and spy
Earl Amherst, detail of an oil painting after A. Devis; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Pitt Amherst, lst Earl Amherst
British diplomat
Douglas Richard Hurd
British diplomat
Sir Roger Casement
British politician
Bryce, James
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British statesman
Sir Stafford Cripps
British statesman
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
British statesman
Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1938.
Robert Gilbert Vansittart, Baron Vansittart
British diplomat and author
Sir Harold Nicolson
British diplomat and author
Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford, painting by G.F. Watts, 1855; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford
British diplomat
Bowring, detail of an engraving by William Ward (1766-1826), after a painting by H.W. Pickersgill
Sir John Bowring
British diplomat
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
British diplomat and poet
Baron Hardinge, oil painting by Sir William Orpen, 1919; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge
viceroy of India
George Blake
British diplomat and Soviet spy
Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st marquess of Reading
British statesman
Guy Burgess
British diplomat and spy
Sir Percy Cox, 1923
Sir Percy Cox
British diplomat