:''Sir George Macartney should not be confused with his kinsman George Macartney, an earlier British statesman.'' Sir George McCartney () (19 January 1867 –19 May 1945), generally recorded as Macartney, was the

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in Kashgar at the end of the 19th century. He was succeeded by Percy T. Etherton. Macartney arrived in

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in 1890 as interpreter for the Younghusband expedition. He remained there until 1918. Macartney first proposed the Macartney-MacDonald Line as the boundary between China and India in

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. Macartney was born at

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and was half-Chinese while his godfather was Chinese politician

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. His father, Halliday Macartney, was a member of the same family as George Macartney, the 18th century British ambassador to China, and his mother was a near relative of Lar Wang, one of the leaders of the

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rebellion. Macartney married Catherine Borland in 1898. In Kashgar his wife, Catherine, Lady Macartney, assisted the archaeologists who found the library at Dunhuang. The Macartneys had three children.Skrine (1973), p. vii The Macartneys retired to Jersey in the Channel Islands, where they were trapped by the German occupation during World War II. Macartney died on

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, just a few days after the German surrender.

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Bibliography

* *Lady Macartney, ''An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan''. London: Ernest Benn, 1931. {{DEFAULTSORT:Macartney, George 1867 births 1945 deaths British explorers Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire Explorers of Central Asia History of Xinjiang British people of Chinese descent British consuls