An East India Company Cemetery: Protestant Burials in Macao

323 Pages·1995·38.496 MB·English

by  Lindsay Ride

AN
EAST INDIA COMPANY
CEMETERY
Protedtant Burlald in Macao
Lindsay and May Ride
Edited by Bernard Mellor
AN
EAST INDIA COMPANY
CEMETERY

AN
EAST INDIA COMPANY
CEMETERY
ProtMtant Buria& in Macao
Lindsay and May Ride
Abridged and edited from their manuscripts
with additional material
by Bernard Mellor"
• ~ *.. ~ ti:: ~A if.±..
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hong Kong University Press
14/F Hong Kong University Press
7 Tin Wan Praya Road
Aberdeen
Hong Kong
© Hong Kong University Press 1996
Reprinted 1998
ISBN 962 209 384 1
All rights reserved. No portion of this publication
may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording,
or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission
in writing from the publisher.
Printed in Hong Kong by Nordica Printing Co. Ltd.
To the memory of the late
Sir Lindsay Ride
What though my body runne to dust?
Faith cleaves unto it, counting ev'ry grain
With an exact and most particular trust
Reserving all for flesh again.
- GEORGE HERBERT

TbeContentd
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements x
Foreword XI
SECTION ONE
1. Macao and the Setting 1
Macao - Politics - Climate - The season - Whampoa
- Lintin and the outer anchorages
2. The Company and the China Trade 7
The Company - Supercargoes - East Indiamen
- Cargoes and sycee - The country trade - Privilege trading -
Opium - Procedure - Traders and the mandarins
- The foreign factories at Canton - The Dutch -
The Americans - Restriction and evasion
- The Topaze incident
3. Trade after the Company 20
The Superintendent of Trade - The Innes incident
- Britons and Dutch excluded - American windfall
The Daniell incident - The Stanton incident
- The First Opium War - Hong Kong
4. At Sea 28
A pretty sight - Naval ships - The Lintin Fleet
- Piracy - Some other hazards
Vll
AN EAST INDIA COMPANY CEMETERY
5. Ashore - The Context 37
Spiritual arrangements - The chaplains - Learning Chinese
- A health resort - Clinics - News - Personal mail
Movement
6. Life Ashore 43
Ease - Chinnery and portraiture - Other personages
- Women and children - Food and drink
Leisure in Hong Kong - Talk and horses
- Music, theatre and dancing - Sickness - Poison
7. Death 58
The 1813 review of the Company's charter
- Foreign burial in China - Problems of formality
and the law - The chapel and the Old Cemetery
The New Protestant Cemetery - The site
- The courtyard - The burial ground
SECTION TWO
8. The Memorials 71
Memorial design and inscriptions - Memorial listings
- Grouping of memorials
9. The Entries 77
Notes - The individual entries 1-166
10. The Stones in the Wall 265
A note - The entries 167-89
Chronology 273
Sources 276
List of Names 283
Index 286
VIll
Lilt ofI f!tMtratwlM
Section One
Unknown Chinese artist: The Praya Grande, Macao (about 1855) - xii
The Pearl River Delta - xvii
Youqua (attrib.): The Whampoa Anchorage (about 1850) - xviii
China Trade Routes - 6
Unknown Chinese artist: The Canton Factories (early 19th century) -15
Alexander: The Forts of Anunghoy Saluting the 'Lion' in the Bocca Tigris - 29
Chinnery: Dr Colledge's Eye Hospital - 39
Chinnery: Self-portrait - 42
Chinnery: Dr Robert Morrison Translating the Bible - 45
Fortune: Dent's House and Garden in Hong Kong - 51
Huggins: The Red Rover - 55
Chinnery: Dr Morrison's Tomb at Macao (1838) - 66
Section Two
(The author took the photographs ofg raveyard and memorials that appear in
Chapters 7,8 and 9, except Memorials 164, 167-74, 176-9 and 184-8)
The Memorials in Plan - 70
Captain Christian Jp land - 98
Chinnery: Self-portrait - 120
Chinnery: Sir Andrew Ljungstedt - 143
Chinnery: Dr and Mrs Colledge - 175
Captain Henry Bridges - 191
Captain Nathaniel Kinsman - 195
Chinnery: Dr Robert Morrison - 231
J ames Endicott - 264
IX