The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-17
VICTIMS OF TIE Chinese
Best Known of the Foreigners Who
We're Slain in Pekin.
Estimated That Over Sixteen Hun
drcd Were In the Capital When
the Boxer Uprising BeEan-A List
of the Ministers and the Various
Members of Their Households.

| While ii Is impossible to obtain q com
pletc enumeration OF the Americans an
Europeans who were massacred in Pekin
the following lists. computed from tn
most reliable sources contain the name
of the best known among the sixteen hun
dred and odd foreigners who. it is esti
mated. were in the Chinese capital whei
the Boxer rising broke out.
Besides the regular residents OF the le
cations. the mission headquarters stations
the university staff, the maritime custom:
staff and dependents and marine guards, il
| must be remembered there were in the city
| a iioating stream OF European and American
merchants. visitors. and missionary refu-
gees. Nearly all the members of the zap
| anese legation it Is stated, were married
! and had their wives and families with
them. 1t is known for certain that no few
er than seventy Americans were cut of
from the outside world and probably
among the section connected with the mis-
| sionary and Pekin University. There were
| 500 guards and military men, rank and
| file. and Sir Robert tIart's establishment
would account for a considerable number.
| American.
Edwin Il. Congcf, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary, was born in Knox
County. Illinois, ls43; in the civil war was
brevetted major for gallant sorvice elected State
| treasurer of Iowa, 1850, and Representative in
| CCngress; received appointment at Minister to
| Brazil, and transferred to Pekin. ls9s.
NIs. Congtr, wife OF the United State Minister.
Miss Laura conser, daughter OF Mr. and Mrs.
| Conser.
Miss Mary Pi,."c, niece of Mr.. and Mrs. ConGer.
Mrs. NJ. 5. Woodward, OF Chicago, visiting at
legation.
Miss lone Woodward, of Chicago, visiting at
legation
Miss Ceciie Payne, one OF the household OF Mr.
COnger.
Herbert C. squiers. Secretary of Legation;
born in Canada settled in New York; appointed
second secretary Of the Embassy at Berlin in 1896,
and TO Pekin in 1925. His first wife Miss
Astor. of New York; his second and eight chill
dren were with him in Pekin.
William Z. Bainbridge, Second Secretary Of
Legation.
Fleming D. Cheshire, interpreter.
Miss Mary Condit Smith, daughter of Mrs.
Condit Smith, of Washington, and niece Of the
late Justic Field, of the United States Supreme
Court. Was visiting NJ. and MIS-. CoDger from
May 2j.
Capt. Jehn D. Myers L. s. NJ C., of the Ore.
son. in command Of the legation guard Of seven
officers and tifty-six men, who entered Pekin
June 1.
Capt. Newt H. Hail. L. s. NJ c.; entered the
Marine Corps July /, 1897. appointed irom Texas.
Thomas II. Hppitt, assistant surgeon, entered
the service juno, 1858, appointed from virginia
BrIti.h.
Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minister at Pc
kin, born 1859, sen OF the late Mai Gen. J. c.
Macdonald; entered Seventy fourth Highlandcrs
and ser,ed in Egyptian campaigns 1ssa-s5; acted
as military attache at Cairo; appointed Consul
General at Zanzibar. lss7ss; special commits
sioner Niger territories, and sent by Lord
Salisbury to Pekin in 1896.
Lady Ethel Macdonald, daughter OF Major W.
Cairns Armstrong, Fifteenth Regiment. Lost her
first husband and children by cholera in India.
Lady Macdonald had two young daughters with
her
Herbert Guy Neville Dering second secretary
Of British Legation; second son OF Sir Henry Ne
vile Dering. distinguished diplomatic, British
Minister 10 Mexico; was born at Florence, 1867.
Henry Cockburu, Chinese secretary of British
Legation; entered service by competition, ISs0.
and appointed student interpreter.
Col George fitzherbert browne, British mill
tary attache at Pekin; born in 1851; passed
through the staff college; saw ser'lce in several
West African campaigns, fer which he was mem
toned in dispatches ard made member OF the
Distinguished Service Order
DIR. Wordsworth Poole, physician to the British
Legation; principal medical officer Niger ex-
pedition OF 1890.
Right Rev Charles Perry Scott, chaplain of the
British Legation; was second Bishop OF North
q
Jesus College, Cambridge, and served i'll the mis-
sion field at Chefoo from 1874 to 1850.
j. ". Jamison, commercial attachc OF
Briti.h Legation.
Befthold G.. Tours, accountant OF British Legl-
tion.
W H. Brown. constable for many years Of
British Legation.
b. Tw,nan. second class assistant student in
terpreter at British Legation.
d. Olphant, student interpreter in training at
British Legation.
II. r. Tebbitt stndent interpreter in training
at British legation
j. I. Pratt, student interpreter, in training
L. G. Graham Cloete. student interpreter
in training at British Legation.
G. W. W. Pearson, student interpreter in train
ing at British Legation.
". e. NJ. Russell, student Interpreter in train.
ing at British Legation.
II. Phillips. student Interpreter in -Flinins at
British Legation.
c. {. Augustus Kirk, student Interpreter in
training at British legation.
A. ]. Flahcrty, student interpreter in training
At British Legation.
W NJ Hewlett. student interpreter in training |
II II. Bristow, student Interpreter in trimming |
at British Legation.
II. Porter, student interpreter in training at
C. A. W Rose. student interpreter i'll training
at British Legation. |
G. r Peacaey student interpreter in training at
BElllsh ltSdliON
j. g. Hancock, student interpreter in training |
a; British Legation.
r. Driry. 5trdent Interpreter in training a,
British Legation.
L. H. r Barr. student Interpreter in trimming |
at British Legation.
II. Warren. student interpreter in training at |
British legation
l.. Giles student Interpreter in trimming at |
British Legation.
y. Even Townsend student Interpreter in |
training at British legation, SON Of Mr. A. " |
Townsend. New York manager of the Hougkong |
and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Mrs Archibald Little, wife of wellknown |
English merchant and explorer of the upper |
Yangtse River. According 10 recent despatch |
Mrs. little. who particularly well known by |
her efforts TO prevent the cruel custom of binding
girls feet in China, was shut up in Pckin.
Foreigners in Imperial Customs.
Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Chi |
nese Imperial Maritime Customs: sixty five years
old: has spent forty-eight years in China has Or
Canized th. service since 1852 until it now in.
cludes 900 foreigners OF Ill natonalities and be-
tween 5000 and 1900 natives. Is an Irishman.
born at Portadown, Armagh and educated at
Queens College, Belfast; created baronet in
1893, and was nominated British Minister but |
declined the post; decorated by the Chinese au-
thorities with the Red Button, the Double Ora
gon and the Pcacock's Feather Married Hester
daughter OF Alexander Breedon, of Portadown. and
leaves a son, who holds post in the London Of
lice Of the Chinese customs department
r. G. Breedon, Vice Inspector General of the
Imperial Maritime Customs OF China brother.in. |
law OF Sir Robert Hart.