William Frederick Mayers
| HBM Vice Consul William Frederick Mayers | |||||||||
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| Born | 1831 | ||||||||
| Died | 1878 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Canton and Foreign Office; Lonsdale Road Barnes c/o John Ellison, 2 Cowper's Court, EC [1872] | ||||||||
| Occupation | diplomacy | ||||||||
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Mayers, William S Frederick (1831-1878) diplomat
Mayers died long before Feng Ling set sail, falling fatally ill at Shanghai in 1878, en route from Peking where he was Chinese Secretary, to take leave in Britain. He was an ‘excellent Chinese scholar, a fluent and polished writer, and an indefatigable worker’, in the words of the North China Herald, part of whose legacy was this training manual for newcomers to the Chinese language and the Qing political system, passed on from consul to customs man, and back to consul, and perhaps held and used by others in between, a book which has clearly done service in its time.
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External Publications
William Fredeick Mayer’s The Chinese Government: A Manual of Chinese Titles, categorically arranged and explained, first published in 1877.