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Davis, John Francis, Sir, 1795-1890


  • [John Francis Davis was the eldest son of East India Company (EIC) director and amateur artist Samuel Davis while his mother was Henrietta Boileau, member of a refugee French noble family who had come to England in the early eighteenth century from Languedoc in the south of France. He was appointed writer at the East India Company's factory in Canton. Having demonstrated a good standard of the Chinese language (in his translation of The Three Dedicated Rooms ("San-Yu-Low") in 1815) he was appointed to accompany Lord Amherst on his embassy to Peking in 1816. In 1844 he was appointed governor of Hong Kong. During his mandate Fancis Davis was much hated by Hong Kong residents due to the imposition of several taxes] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_Davis

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    • Davis, John Francis, 1795-1890
    • 大衛斯, 1795-1890
    • 德俾士, 1795-1890
    • 德庇時, 1795-1890
    • 戴維斯, 1795-1890
    • 爹核士, 1795-1890

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    • Birth Date

        1795

    • Death Date

        1890

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    • found: Sketches of China : partly during an inland journey of four months, between Peking, Nanking, and Canton (OCoLC)4050039
    • found: His China, during the war and since the peace, 1972:t.p. (John Francis Davis, Bart., F.R.S.)
    • found: Rémusat, J. P. A. Contes chinois, 1827.

  • General Notes

    • [John Francis Davis was the eldest son of East India Company (EIC) director and amateur artist Samuel Davis while his mother was Henrietta Boileau, member of a refugee French noble family who had come to England in the early eighteenth century from Languedoc in the south of France. He was appointed writer at the East India Company's factory in Canton. Having demonstrated a good standard of the Chinese language (in his translation of The Three Dedicated Rooms ("San-Yu-Low") in 1815) he was appointed to accompany Lord Amherst on his embassy to Peking in 1816. In 1844 he was appointed governor of Hong Kong. During his mandate Fancis Davis was much hated by Hong Kong residents due to the imposition of several taxes] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_Davis

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    • 1980-07-21: new
    • 2019-12-26: revised

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