George Macartney (British consul)

Sir George Macartney KCIE[1] (Chinese: 馬繼業; 19 January 1867 –19 May 1945) was the British consul-general in Kashgar at the end of the 19th century.

[4] In Kashgar his wife, Catherine, Lady Macartney, assisted the archaeologists who found the library at Dunhuang.

The Macartneys retired to Jersey in the Channel Islands, where they were trapped by the German occupation during World War II.

463-464 “Notices, from Chinese Sources, on the Ancient Kingdom of Lau-lan, or Shen-shen”, in: The Geographical Journal, vol.

22, 1917-1919, 534-536 [Lecture of Friday, May 9, 1919] “Bolshevism as I saw it at Tashkent in 1918”, in: Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, vol.

Mongols and Moslems of Chinese Turkistan”, in: Peoples of all Nations: Their Life Today and Story of Their Past, ed.