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John Bowring

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Sir John Bowring, KCB (Chinese translated name: 寶寧, 寶靈 (for Putonghua speakers) or 包令 (for Cantonese)) (Thai: พระยาสยามมานุกูลกิจ สยามมิตรมหายศ) (17 October 1792 – 23 November 1872) was an English political economist, traveller, writer, literary translator, polyglot, and the fourth Governor of Hong Kong. [1]

117 relations: Bathala, Benjamin Hawes, Bolton (UK Parliament constituency), Bowring, Bowring Treaty, Bowringia, Bridges Street, British and Foreign Unitarian Association, British Hong Kong, Canal Road, Hong Kong, Catherine Ann Janvier, Charles de Varigny, Chief Secretary for Administration, Chris Patten, Consulates in extraterritorial jurisdictions, Daniel Richard Caldwell, David Lester Richardson, Democratic development in Hong Kong, Des Voeux Road, Devon and Exeter Institution, Devonshire Association, Edgar Alfred Bowring, Edward Bowring Stephens, Eurasian (mixed ancestry), Filipino mestizo, Financial Secretary (Hong Kong), Florin (British coin), Fox family of Falmouth, François Barthélemy Arlès-Dufour, Front Palace crisis, George Bonham, Gioacchino Prati, Government House, Hong Kong, Governor of Hong Kong, Harry Smith Parkes, Henri Mouhot, Henry Southern (journalist), Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, Hispanism, History of Thailand, History of the Philippines, Impalement in myth and art, Index of articles related to Hong Kong, Index of China-related articles (0–L), James Hews Bransby, James Nichols (printer), James Stephenson (engraver), James Stirling (Royal Navy officer), Jeremy Bentham, John Campbell Colquhoun, ..., John Charles Bowring, John Crawfurd, John Dunlop (Scottish politician), John Whishaw, Joseph Barker (minister), Joseph Marie Jacquard, Joshua Walmsley, Kilmarnock, Kilmarnock Burghs (UK Parliament constituency), Lant Carpenter, Lewin Bentham Bowring, Liberalism in Hong Kong, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to China, List of Fellows of the Royal Society A, B, C, List of heads of Hong Kong by education, List of people from Devon, List of people from Exeter, List of places of worship in Hastings, List of polyglots, List of United Kingdom by-elections (1847–57), List of United Kingdom MPs: B, London Philhellenic Committee, Lygosoma bowringii, Maesteg, Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and of Zelená Hora, Merah Putih (2009 film), Minor Morals for Young People, Mongkut, Monthly Repository, Museum of Vuk and Dositej, Nabulsi soap, Orgelbüchlein, Oriental leaf-toed gecko, Palace economy, Peace Society, Peter Ainsworth (Whig politician), Pinklao, Pound sterling, Praya, Ram Khamhaeng Inscription, Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932), Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Sacred Heart Canossian College, Second Opium War, Secretary for Home Affairs, Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet, Stephen Blair, Susannah York, Symphony No. 4 (Ives), Thailand, The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, The Westminster Review, Thomas Chisholm Anstey, Thomas Francis Wade, Timeline of Hong Kong history, Timothy Kenrick, Unitarianism, University College London, Utilitarianism, Vuk Karadžić, Wichaichan, William Bolling (MP), William Caine (Hong Kong), William Empson (lawyer), World Anti-Slavery Convention, Ye Mingchen, 1792 in literature. Expand index (67 more) »

Bathala

According to the indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people, Bathala (sometimes spelled Batala) is the all-mighty deity who created the universe.

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Benjamin Hawes

Sir Benjamin Hawes (1797 – 15 May 1862) was a British Whig politician.

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Bolton (UK Parliament constituency)

Bolton was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bolton in the county of Lancashire.

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Bowring

Bowring is a surname of English origin.

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Bowring Treaty

The Bowring Treaty is the name given to an agreement signed on 18 April 1855 between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Siam that liberalized foreign trade in Siam.

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Bowringia

Bowringia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, found in west Africa.

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Bridges Street

Bridges Street is a 300-metre two-way street in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.

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British and Foreign Unitarian Association

The British and Foreign Unitarian Association was the major Unitarian body in Britain from 1825.

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British Hong Kong

British Hong Kong was the period during which Hong Kong was under British Crown rule, from 1841 to 1997 (excluding the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945).

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Canal Road, Hong Kong

Canal Road East, Canal Road West and the Canal Road Flyover are important roads in the Wan Chai District of Hong Kong Island, between the areas of Causeway Bay and Wan Chai.

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Catherine Ann Janvier

Catherine Ann Janvier née Drinker (May 1, 1841 – July 19, 1922) was an American artist, author, and translator.

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Charles de Varigny

Charles Victor Crosnier de Varigny (November 25, 1829 – November 9, 1899) was a French adventurer, diplomat, translator and writer.

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Chief Secretary for Administration

The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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Chris Patten

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, (born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who served as the 28th and final Governor of Hong Kong from 1992-1997.

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Consulates in extraterritorial jurisdictions

In countries outside of its borders, a foreign power often has extraterritorial rights over its official representation (such as a consulate).

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Daniel Richard Caldwell

Daniel Richard Francis Caldwell (19 September 1816 – 2 October 1875) was a colonial government official in Hong Kong.

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David Lester Richardson

David Lester Richardson (1801 – 17 November 1865) was an officer of the East India Company, who throughout his life followed literary pursuits as a poet and periodical writer, and as editor and proprietor of literary journals.

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Democratic development in Hong Kong

Democratic development in Hong Kong has been a major topic since the transfer of sovereignty to China in 1997.

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Des Voeux Road

Des Voeux Road Central and Des Voeux Road West are two roads on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

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Devon and Exeter Institution

The Devon and Exeter Institution is a subscription library in the City of Exeter, Devon, founded in 1813 for "The general diffusion of science, literature and the arts".

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Devonshire Association

The Devonshire Association (DA) is a learned society founded in 1862 by William Pengelly and modelled on the British Association, but concentrating on research subjects linked to Devon in the fields of science, literature and the arts.

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Edgar Alfred Bowring

Edgar Alfred Bowring (26 May 1826 – August 1911) was a British translator, author and civil servant, serving as librarian and registrar to the Board of Trade (1848–1863), secretary to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and Liberal Member of Parliament for Exeter (1868–1874).

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Edward Bowring Stephens

Edward Bowring Stephens (10 December 1815, in Exeter – 10 November 1882, in London), (works signed E B Stephens) was a British sculptor from Devon.

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Eurasian (mixed ancestry)

A Eurasian is a person of mixed Asian and European ancestry.

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Filipino mestizo

In the Philippines, Filipino mestizo, or colloquially tisoy, are people of mixed Filipino and any foreign ancestry.

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Financial Secretary (Hong Kong)

The Financial Secretary is the title held by the Hong Kong government minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters.

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Florin (British coin)

The British florin, or two shilling coin, was issued from 1849 until 1967, with a final issue for collectors dated 1970.

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Fox family of Falmouth

The Fox family of Falmouth, Cornwall, UK were very influential in the development of the town of Falmouth in the 19th century and of the Cornish Industrial Revolution.

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François Barthélemy Arlès-Dufour

François Barthélemy Arlès-Dufour (3 June 1797 – 21 January 1872) was a French silk merchant and leading exponent of Saint-Simonianism.

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Front Palace crisis

The Front Palace crisis or the Front Palace incident (วิกฤตการณ์วังหน้า) (Wang Na crisis) was a political crisis that took place in the Kingdom of Siam from 28 December 1874 to 24 February 1875 (93 of the Rattanakosin Era).

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George Bonham

Sir Samuel George Bonham, 1st Baronet (Chinese Translated Name 般咸, 文咸 or 文翰) (7 September 1803 – 8 October 1863) was a British colonial governor, who became the 4th Governor of the Straits Settlements and the 3rd Governor of Hong Kong.

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Gioacchino Prati

Gioacchino Prati (1790–1863) was an Italian revolutionary and patriot, a supporter of the Risorgimento who was exiled for his activities in 1821.

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Government House, Hong Kong

Government House (formerly 督憲府/香港總督府/港督府), located on Government Hill in the Central District of Hong Kong Island, is the official residence of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.

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Governor of Hong Kong

The Governor of Hong Kong was the representative in Hong Kong of the British Crown from 1843 to 1997.

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Harry Smith Parkes

Sir Harry Smith Parkes (24 February 1828 – 22 March 1885) was a British diplomat who served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul General of the United Kingdom to the Empire of Japan from 1865 to 1883 and the Chinese Qing Empire from 1883 to 1885, and Minister to Korea in 1884.

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Henri Mouhot

Henri Mouhot (May 15, 1826 — November 10, 1861) was a French naturalist and explorer of the mid-19th century.

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Henry Southern (journalist)

Henry Southern (1799–1853) was an English journalist and diplomat, best known as the founder of the Retrospective Review.

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Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead

Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, (19 December 1824 – 28 October 1897), was a British colonial administrator who became the 5th Governor of Hong Kong and subsequently, the 14th Governor of New South Wales, the first Governor of Fiji, and the 8th Governor of New Zealand.

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Hispanism

Hispanism (sometimes referred to as Hispanic Studies or Spanish Studies) is the study of the literature and culture of the Spanish-speaking world, principally that of Spain and Hispanic America.

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History of Thailand

History of Thailand concerns the history of the Thai people, who originally lived in southwestern China, migrated into mainland Southeast Asia over a period of many centuries.

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History of the Philippines

The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans using rafts or boats at least 67,000 years ago as the 2007 discovery of Callao Man suggested.

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Impalement in myth and art

The use of impalement in myth, art, and literature includes mythical representations of it as a method of execution and other uses in paintings, sculptures, and the like, folklore and other tales in which impalement is related to magical or supernatural properties, and the use of simulated impalement for the purposes of entertainment.

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Index of articles related to Hong Kong

Articles related to Hong Kong include.

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Index of China-related articles (0–L)

The following is a breakdown of the list of China-related topics.

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James Hews Bransby

James Hews Bransby (17 March, 1783 - 4 November, 1847), was an English Unitarian minister.

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James Nichols (printer)

James Nichols (1785–1861) was an English printer and theological writer.

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James Stephenson (engraver)

James Stephenson (1808–1886) was an English engraver.

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James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir James Stirling (28 January 179122 April 1865) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham (15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

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John Campbell Colquhoun

John Campbell Colquhoun (23 January 1803–17 April 1870) was a Scottish writer and politician.

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John Charles Bowring

John Charles Bowring (1820–1893) was a Hong Kong businessman, a partner in the firm Jardine, Matheson & Co., and a keen amateur naturalist and JP for the County of Devon.

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John Crawfurd

John Crawfurd (13 August 1783 – 11 May 1868) was a Scottish physician, colonial administrator and diplomat, and author.

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John Dunlop (Scottish politician)

John Dunlop (1806 – 3 April 1839) was a Scottish army officer and politician.

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John Whishaw

John Whishaw (1764 – 21 December 1840) was an English lawyer.

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Joseph Barker (minister)

Joseph Barker (11 May 1806 – 15 September 1875) was an English preacher, author, and controversialist.

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Joseph Marie Jacquard

Joseph Marie Charles dit (called or nicknamed) Jacquard (7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834), was a French weaver and merchant.

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Joshua Walmsley

Sir Joshua Walmsley (1794–1871) was an English businessman and Liberal Party politician.

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Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock (Cille Mheàrnaig, "Meàrnag's church") is a large burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland with a population of 46,350, making it the 15th most populated place in Scotland and the second largest town in Ayrshire.

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Kilmarnock Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Kilmarnock Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918.

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Lant Carpenter

Lant Carpenter, Dr. (2 September 1780 – 5 or 6 April 1840) was an English educator and Unitarian minister.

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Lewin Bentham Bowring

Lewin Bentham Bowring (1824–1910) was a British civil servant in India who served as commissioner of Mysore between 1862 and 1870.

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Liberalism in Hong Kong

Liberalism has a long tradition in Hong Kong as an economic philosophy and has become a major political trend since the 1980s, often represented the pro-democracy camp, apart from Chinese nationalism and conservatism which often constitutes the pro-Beijing camp.

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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to China

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to China is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the People's Republic of China, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in China.

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List of Fellows of the Royal Society A, B, C

About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.

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List of heads of Hong Kong by education

Below is the list of leaders of Hong Kong by university education.

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List of people from Devon

This is a list of people from Devon, a county in South West England.

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List of people from Exeter

This is a list of people from Exeter, a city in South West England.

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List of places of worship in Hastings

The borough of Hastings, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex, has more than 50 extant places of worship serving a wide range of religious denominations.

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List of polyglots

A polyglot is a person with a command of many languages.

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List of United Kingdom by-elections (1847–57)

This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom held between 1847 and 1857, with the names of the previous incumbent and the victor in the by-election and their respective parties.

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List of United Kingdom MPs: B

Following is an incomplete list of past and present Members of Parliament (MPs) of the United Kingdom whose surnames begin with B. The dates in parentheses are the periods for which they were MPs.

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London Philhellenic Committee

The London Philhellenic Committee (1823–1826) was a Philhellenic group established to support the Greek War of Independence from Ottoman rule by raising funds by subscription for military supplies to Greece and by raising a major loan to stabilize the fledgling Greek government.

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Lygosoma bowringii

Lygosoma bowringii, commonly known as the Bowring's supple skink, Bowring's writhing skink, or the Christmas Island grass-skink, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae.

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Maesteg

Maesteg is a town and community in Bridgend County Borough, Wales.

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Manuscripts of Dvůr Králové and of Zelená Hora

The Dvůr Králové and Zelená Hora manuscripts (Czech: Rukopis královédvorský, RK and Rukopis zelenohorský, RZ), also called the Queen's Court manuscript and Green mountain manuscript, are two purported medieval manuscripts of poetry in Old Czech which turned out to be literary hoaxes.

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Merah Putih (2009 film)

Merah Putih ("Red White") is a movie, directed by Yadi Sugandi (director of photography for Laskar Pelangi and the Photograph), brought out in Indonesia in 2009.

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Minor Morals for Young People

Minor Morals for Young People is a work of Children's literature by John Bowring, published in three parts from 1834 to 1839.

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Mongkut

Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthra Maha Mongkut Phra Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua (พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรเมนทรมหามงกุฎ พระจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว), or Rama IV, known in English-speaking countries as King Mongkut (18 October 18041 October 1868), was the fourth monarch of Siam (Thailand) under the House of Chakri, ruling from 1851 to 1868.

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Monthly Repository

The Monthly Repository was a British monthly Unitarian periodical which ran between 1806 and 1838.

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Museum of Vuk and Dositej

The Museum of Vuk and Dositej (Музеј Вука и Доситеја/Muzej Vuka i Dositeja) is one of the most important memorial museums in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.

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Nabulsi soap

Nabulsi soap (صابون نابلسي, ṣābūn Nābulsi) is a type of castile soap produced only in Nablus in the West Bank, Palestine.

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Orgelbüchlein

The Orgelbüchlein ("Little Organ Book") BWV 599−644 is a collection of 46 chorale preludes for organ written by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Oriental leaf-toed gecko

The Oriental leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus bowringii), also known as Bowring's gecko, Sikkimese dark-spotted gecko, or Asian smooth gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to Asia.

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Palace economy

A palace economy or redistribution economy is a system of economic organization in which a substantial share of the wealth flows into the control of a centralized administration, the palace, and out from there to the general population, which may be allowed its own sources of income but relies heavily on the wealth redistributed by the palace.

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Peace Society

The Peace Society, International Peace Society or London Peace Society originally known as the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace, was a British pacifist organization that was active from 1816 until the 1930s.

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Peter Ainsworth (Whig politician)

Peter Ainsworth DL JP (24 November 1790 – 18 January 1870) was a British landowner and operator of an important bleach works.

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Pinklao

Pinklao (ปิ่นเกล้า) (September 4, 1808 – January 7, 1866) was the viceroy of Siam.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Praya

Praya was a term used in Colonial Hong Kong to refer to a promenade by the waterfront.

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Ram Khamhaeng Inscription

The Ram Khamhaeng Inscription, formally known as Sukhothai Inscription No. 1, is a stone stele bearing inscriptions which have traditionally been regarded as the earliest example of the Thai script.

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Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)

The Rattanakosin Kingdom (อาณาจักรรัตนโกสินทร์) is the fourth and present traditional centre of power in the history of Thailand (or Siam).

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Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch

Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch was founded in 1847, but ceased to exist at the end of 1859.

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Sacred Heart Canossian College

Sacred Heart Canossian College (Chinese: 嘉諾撒聖心書院; abbr: 'SHCC') is a Catholic, all-girls' school established at Robinson and Caine Roads, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong.

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Second Opium War

The Second Opium War (第二次鴉片戰爭), the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the United Kingdom and the French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China, lasting from 1856 to 1860.

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Secretary for Home Affairs

The Secretary for Home Affairs is the head of the Home Affairs Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong, which is responsible for local issues, and the provision of community, leisure, and cultural services.

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Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet GCMG (20 February 1835 – 20 September 1911) was a British diplomat and official in the Qing Chinese government, who served as the second Inspector-General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service (IMCS) from 1863 to 1911.

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Stephen Blair

Stephen Blair (21 March 1804 – 5 July 1870) was a British Conservative politician.

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Susannah York

Susannah Yolande Fletcher (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011), known professionally as Susannah York, was an English film, stage, and television actress.

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Symphony No. 4 (Ives)

Charles Ives's Symphony No.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham is a series of volumes which, when complete, will form a definitive edition of the writings of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832).

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The Westminster Review

The Westminster Review was a quarterly British publication.

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Thomas Chisholm Anstey

Thomas Chisholm Anstey (born London 1816 – died 12 August 1873) was an English lawyer and one of the first Catholic parliamentarians in the nineteenth century.

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Thomas Francis Wade

Sir Thomas Francis Wade (25August 181831July 1895), was a British diplomat and sinologist who produced an early Chinese textbook in English, in 1867, that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization system for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892.

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Timeline of Hong Kong history

The following is a timeline of the history of Hong Kong.

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Timothy Kenrick

Timothy Kenrick (1759–1804) was a Welsh Unitarian minister, biblical commentator, and dissenting academy tutor.

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Unitarianism

Unitarianism (from Latin unitas "unity, oneness", from unus "one") is historically a Christian theological movement named for its belief that the God in Christianity is one entity, as opposed to the Trinity (tri- from Latin tres "three") which defines God as three persons in one being; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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University College London

University College London (UCL) is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility.

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Vuk Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Вук Стефановић Караџић; 7 November 1787 – 7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist and linguist who was the major reformer of the Serbian language.

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Wichaichan

Krom Phra Ratchawang Bowon Wichaichan (กรมพระราชวังบวรวิไชยชาญ) or Phra Ong Chao Yodyingyot (or Yingyot) (พระองค์เจ้ายอดยิ่งยศ) (6 April 1838 – 28 August 1885) was a Siamese Prince and member of the Chakri Dynasty.

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William Bolling (MP)

William Bolling (1785 – 30 August 1848) was an English Tory and later Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1832 and 1848.

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William Caine (Hong Kong)

William Hull Caine (1799–1871) was the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1854 to 1859.

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William Empson (lawyer)

William Empson (1791 – December 10, 1852) was an English barrister, professor and journalist.

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World Anti-Slavery Convention

The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12–23 June 1840.

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Ye Mingchen

Ye Mingchen (葉名琛, 18071859), also romanized as Yeh Ming-ch'en, was a high-ranking Chinese official during the Qing dynasty, known for his resistance to British influence in Canton (now known as Guangzhou) in the aftermath of the First Opium War and his role in the beginning of the Second Opium War.

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1792 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1792.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowring

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