An East India Company Cemetery: Protestant Burials in Macao, Volumen1Hong Kong University Press, 1995 M11 1 - 324 páginas Many of the the major figures (British, European and American) during the turbulent events leading to the Opium War are buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery in Macao. The stories told by the inscriptions on the 160 gravestones there form Macao and Hong Kong's heritage. |
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Trade after the Company | 20 |
At Sea | 28 |
Life Ashore | 43 |
Death | 58 |
SECTION | 71 |
The Entries | 77 |
The Stones in the Wall | 265 |
Chronology | 273 |
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An East India Company Cemetery: Protestant Burials in Macao Sir Lindsay Ride,May Ride Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |
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Age at death American arrived barque bed-mould born British SACRED burial buried Calcutta Canton Captain cargo carved chaplain Charles China Chinese Chinnery cm high cm long cm thick cm wide Colledge Colonial command Company's Cree Daniel Date of death died at Macao Dixson HKG Dutch East India Squadron Elliot erected factory FC&HKG foreign George George Chinnery granite chest-tomb grey Harriet Low headstone Hong Kong HSPH incised corners inscription James John John Robert Morrison June Kinsman lettering Lintin Lintin Island London Macao Roads mandarins marble Matheson & Co medium-grained MEMORY merchants metres Morse moulded plinth naval née number New Protestant Numbered OBSERVERS officers Old Cemetery opium Pearl River Portuguese Protestant Cemetery records rectangular REFER Rev G.H. Vachell Robert Morrison sailed ship ship's sides and ends supercargo table-top tablet Thomas tion tomb trade Urmston wall Whampoa wife William
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