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George Beer Endacott (28 February 1901 – September 1971) was a British-born
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historian. He was born in South
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in the West England as a son of railway worker. He was educated at Tavistock Grammar School and
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and became a teacher. In the 1930s, he attended
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, Oxford and read politics, philosophy and economics, returning to teaching until he entered the
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in 1942. During the
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he served mainly in the Mediterranean as an interpreter with the French forces. On leaving the Navy in 1946 he took up an appointment as lecturer in history at the
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where he remained until his retirement in 1962. As a historian and author he wrote a number of books including ''A History of Hong Kong'', ''Fragrant Harbour'' (with A Hinton) and ''Government and the People''. The manuscript of his last book, ''Hong Kong Eclipse'', was almost finished at the time of his death. It was completed, at the request of the Hong Kong government, by Alan Birch, a senior member of the History Department at the University of Hong Kong who Endacott had asked to read the manuscript.


Bibliography

* Endacott, George Beer and Dorothy E. She (1949). ''The Diocese of Victoria, Hong Kong. A Hundred Years of Church History, 1849–1949.'' * * * * * * Endacott, George Beer (1967). ''Fourth Impression.'' *


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Endacott, George Beer Royal Navy officers 20th-century Hong Kong historians Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Exeter University of Hong Kong faculty 1901 births 1971 deaths Writers from Tavistock Historians of Hong Kong Schoolteachers from Devon British people in British Hong Kong