William Lockhart
| William Lockhart FRGS [MRCS] | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 1811 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1896 | ||||||||||||
| Residence |
China Granville Park, Blackheath, SE [1883] | ||||||||||||
| Occupation |
medical church | ||||||||||||
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sometimes spelt Lockart
death noted in report of the council for 1896
Brabrook's Presidential address 1897: My dear and honoured friend, Mr. William Lockhart, of Blackheath, had been a corresponding member of this Institute from its beginning, having been previously a corresponding member of the Ethnological Society. Nearly forty years ago he contributed a paper to the Transactions of that Society on the "Miautsze," or Aborigines of China, ail(I produced for inspection a series of drawings of those hill-tribes, made by Chinese artists. As far back as the year 1834 he qualified himself as a surgeon, and shortly afterwards became the pioneer medical missionary to China, where he remained for thirty years. He married a sister of Mr. (afterwards Sir Harry) Parkes, and that estimable lady survives him. The very interesting biography of that able diplomatist, lately published, contains much information communicated by Mr. and Mrs. Lockhart as to his early career. For many years past, Mr. Lockhart had been an active director of the London Missionary Society, and in that capacity took great interest in the Society's Ethnological collections, now in the British Museum. He had large collections of his own, principally relating to China, some of which are now in the Museum of Practical Geology at Jerrnyn Street, and others at the British Museum, but a considerable number remained in his own possession. Though he had not for a long period attended our meetings, I had frequent opportunities of observing the interest he took in our transactions, and discussing anthropological questions with him. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1857.
Notes From Elsewhere
Born, 1811; medical missionary in China; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1858-1896; died, 1896.
Publications
External Publications
Notes by William Lockhart and locally printed material concerning Peking and the surrounding region, 1844-1877. Held at RGS
House Publications
On the Mian-toze or Aborigines of China
