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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Macartney    
First Name(s)  George    
Titles, Honours, etc.  First Earl    
Birth Year  1737    
Death Year  1806    
Entry  Governor : son of George Macartney : born May 14, 1737 : educated at Trinity College Dublin : Envoy Extraordinary to St. Petersburg 1764 : knighted : Chief Secretary for Ireland 1767 : K.B. : Captain General and Governor of the Caribbee islands 1775~9 : made an Irish Peer 1776 : defended Grenada and made prisoner of war but released : appointed Governor of Madras and held the office from June 22 ,1781 to June 8, 1785 : reduced the Dutch settlements in S. India : conducted war against Hyder Ali and Tippoo : resented control from the Bengal Government : sent home Coote's successor Major General James Stuart : made treaty of Mangalore with Tippoo 1783 : resigned because his policy in S. India was not upheld : declined the Governor Generalship Feb. 1785 : granted a pension by the E. I. Co. : severely wounded by Stuart in duel in Hyde Park 1786 : made an Irish Earl in 1792 : sent as Plenipotentiary on an embassy to Pekin 1792-4 : deputed on a mission to Louis XVIII of France at Vevrai 1795 : made an English Baron 1796 : Governor of Cape of Good Hope 1796-8 : declined the Presidency of the Board of Control : died May 31 1806 : wrote accounts of his Embassies.     
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