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George McCartney
George Macartney or McCartney may refer to: * George Macartney (British Army officer) (died 1730) *George Macartney (1672–1757), MP for Belfast, Newton Limavady and Donegal * George Macartney (died 1724), MP for Belfast *George McCartney, 1st Earl McCartney :''George Macartney should not be confused with Sir George Macartney, a later British statesman.'' George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806) was a British diplomat, politician and colonial administrator who served as ... (1737–1806), first British Ambassador to China * George Hume Macartney (1793–1869), MP for Antrim * George Macartney (British consul) (1867–1945), British consul-general in Kashgar * George Macartney (Australian politician), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly * George McCartney (footballer) (born 1981), Northern Irish footballer {{hndis, name=Macartney, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Macartney (British Army Officer)
Lieutenant-General George Macartney or MacCartney ( 1660–1730) was an Irish-born professional soldier who went into exile to escape charges for his role in the 1712 Hamilton–Mohun duel. He was later acquitted and restored to his military rank. Personal details George Macartney was born in 1660, elder son of "Black George" Macartney (1630–1702), a wealthy Belfast merchant, and Martha (died 1705), daughter of Sir John Davies, Attorney-General for Ireland from 1606 to 1619. His younger brother Isaac was later High Sheriff of Antrim. Sir Bernard Burke, '' A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1863) vol. IIp. 926 In later life, he married Anne Douglas; they had a number of children who predeceased them. Career Macartney was intended to follow his father into the family business but volunteered for the army during the Nine Years War, and served with much credit under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene. After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Macartney (1672–1757)
George Macartney or McCartney may refer to: * George Macartney (British Army officer) (died 1730) * George Macartney (1672–1757), MP for Belfast, Newton Limavady and Donegal * George Macartney (died 1724), MP for Belfast Belfast (, , , ; from ) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel ... * George McCartney, 1st Earl McCartney (1737–1806), first British Ambassador to China * George Hume Macartney (1793–1869), MP for Antrim * George Macartney (British consul) (1867–1945), British consul-general in Kashgar * George Macartney (Australian politician), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly * George McCartney (footballer) (born 1981), Northern Irish footballer {{hndis, name=Macartney, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Macartney (died 1724)
George Macartney or McCartney may refer to: *George Macartney (British Army officer) (died 1730) *George Macartney (1672–1757), MP for Belfast, Newton Limavady and Donegal * George Macartney (died 1724), MP for Belfast *George McCartney, 1st Earl McCartney :''George Macartney should not be confused with Sir George Macartney, a later British statesman.'' George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806) was a British diplomat, politician and colonial administrator who served as ... (1737–1806), first British Ambassador to China * George Hume Macartney (1793–1869), MP for Antrim * George Macartney (British consul) (1867–1945), British consul-general in Kashgar * George Macartney (Australian politician), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly * George McCartney (footballer) (born 1981), Northern Irish footballer {{hndis, name=Macartney, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Belfast was a constituency in the Irish House of Commons, the house of representatives of the Kingdom of Ireland, until 1800. History Belfast in County Antrim was enfranchised as a borough constituency in 1613. It continued to be entitled to send two Member of Parliament, Members of Parliament to the Irish House of Commons until the Parliament of Ireland was merged into the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1801. During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland Belfast was represented from 1654 in the Westminster Parliament as part of the Carrickfergus and Belfast (constituency), Carrickfergus and Belfast constituency. Belfast was the place of election in this single-member constituency. See First Protectorate Parliament for further details. In 1661, following the English Restoration, restoration of the king, the Parliament of Ireland was re-established as it had existed before the Protectorate. In the Patriot Parliament of 1690 summoned by James II of Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George McCartney, 1st Earl McCartney
:''George Macartney should not be confused with Sir George Macartney, a later British statesman.'' George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806) was a British diplomat, politician and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Grenada, Madras and the Cape Colony. He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled " a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets". Early years He was born in 1737 as the only son of George Macartney, High Sheriff of Antrim and Elizabeth Winder. Macartney descended from a Scottish family with origins in Ireland, who were granted land in Scotland for serving under Edward Bruce, brother of Robert the Bruce. The Macartneys of Auchenleck, Kirkcudbrightshire settled in Lissanoure County Antrim, Ireland, where he was born. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, in 1759, he became a stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hume Macartney
George Hume Macartney, born George Hume (1793–1869) of Lissanoure, County Antrim was an Irish politician. In 1814 Hume assumed the surname Macartney under the will of his granduncle, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney :''George Macartney should not be confused with Sir George Macartney, a later British statesman.'' George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806) was a British diplomat, politician and colonial administrator who served as .... He was Conservative MP for Antrim from 1852 to 1858.Gunn & Webb (eds.) ''Benjamin Disraeli Letters'', 1982, p. 416 n2 References External links * 1793 births 1869 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Antrim constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 Irish Conservative Party MPs Politicians from County Antrim {{Conservative-UK-MP-1790s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Macartney (British Consul)
:''Sir George Macartney should not be confused with his kinsman George Macartney, an earlier British statesman.'' Sir George Macartney (; 19 January 1867 –19 May 1945) was the British consul-general in Kashgar at the end of the 19th century. He was succeeded by Percy T. Etherton. Macartney arrived in Xinjiang in 1890 as an interpreter for the Younghusband expedition. He remained there until 1918. Macartney first proposed the Macartney-MacDonald Line as the boundary between China and India in Aksai Chin. Macartney was born in Nanjing and was half-Chinese while his godfather was Chinese politician Li Hongzhang. His father, Halliday Macartney, was a member of the same family as George Macartney, the 18th century British ambassador to China, and his mother was a near relative of Lar Wang, one of the leaders of the Taiping rebellion. Macartney married Catherine Borland in 1898. In Kashgar his wife, Catherine, Lady Macartney, assisted the archaeologists who found the lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Macartney (Australian Politician)
George David Macartney (1841 - 2 June 1878) was an Australian politician. He was a member for Gippsland South in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1869 to 1871 and 1877 to 1878. Biography Macartney was born in Armagh, Ireland, and he married a woman named Anna Maria in Ireland in December 1862. He studied at Dublin University completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1863. He then moved to Ontario, Canada, where he was ordained as a deacon of the Church of England in 1864 serving for a year before moving to Melbourne, Australia, where he served as a Minister in Gippsland and joined the Gippsland Freemasons. In December 1866 he was ordained as a priest of St. James's Church in Melbourne. In September 1868 Macartney was granted a Doctor of Laws from Dublin University making him the youngest Doctor of Laws in the colony of Victoria and the youngest of Dublin University, and he resigned from the Church that year and was admitted into the Victorian Bar in 1869. In March 1869 he was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
