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Born near Salisbury, England|Salisbury, he was the son of Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801), first baronet, diplomatist and Orientalist, and in 1792 accompanied his father, who had been appointed secretary to George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney|Lord Macartney's mission to China, to the Far East (1792-1794). He acquired a good knowledge of Chinese language, and in 1798 was appointed a writer in the British East India Company's factory at Canton (Guangzhou), and subsequently its chief. In 1805 he translated a work of Dr George Pearson into Chinese, thereby introducing vaccination into China. In 1816 he proceeded as second commissioner on a special mission to Beijing with William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst|Lord Amherst and Sir Henry Ellis. Between 1818 and 1852 he was MP for several English constituencies, finally for Portsmouth. He was a member of the East India Committee, and in 1823, in conjunction with Henry Thomas Colebrooke founded the Royal Asiatic Society. His publications include translations of Ta Tsing leu lee, being the Fundamental Laws of China (1810), the first Chinese book translated into English, and of the Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars (1821); Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China and our Commercial Intercourse with that Country (1822); Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences during the British Embassy to Peking (1824); Observations on our Chinese Commerce (1850). For the Hakluyt Society he edited Gonzalez de Mendoza's History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China. Category:1781 births|Staunton, George Thomas Category:1859 deaths|Staunton, George Thomas Category:Baronets|Staunton, George Thomas This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "George Thomas Staunton".
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