Augustus Raymond Margary

Augustus Raymond Margary ( born May 26, 1846 in Belgaum, East Indies, † February 21, 1875 in Manwein or " Manwyne满 云" in Yunnan, China ) was a British traveler and diplomat.

Life

He was the son of a military man and was devoted to the consular services in China. He received in 1874 the order to accompany an expedition under Colonel Horace Browne, which should penetrate from Burma to Yunnan ago as an interpreter. From Shanghai, he wondered what was never a successful Europeans, the way to Burma overland back by mostly on boats sailed up the rivers, and so the Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces happened. On January 15, 1875, he arrived in Bhamo on the Irrawaddy with Brown ash expedition together. In order to pave her the way he went ahead, but was to Manwein on the Chinese border in Yunnan, " traitorous murdered " on 21 February 1875 ( Meyers encyclopedia, 4.A. ) or " in a resistance from the locals killed " (China Radio International ), from which arose serious differences between England and China. They led to the Treaty of Yantai from 1876 ( the Chefoo Convention ), in which Great Britain received the right to the " exploration " of trade routes to Yunnan send out people, or China via Tibet to India and vice versa. This was open for the British the way to Yunnan and Tibet.

His diary was published in 1875 under the title: " Notes of a journey from Hankow to Ta -li -fu " in Shanghai.

Works

• Margary, Augustus Raymond and Rutherford Alcock. The Journey of Augustus Raymond Margary, from Shanghae to Bhamo, and Back to Manwyne: From His Journals and Letters, with a letter Biographical Preface. London:. Macmillan and co, 1876.