Pierre Paul Ferdinand Mourier

Pierre Paul Mourier (5 August 1746– 30 December 1836) was a Danish Asiatic Company trader who spent 15 years in Canton.

In 1768–70, he was part of the large group of people that accompanied the young King Christian VII on his journey to England and France.

She was the eldest daughter of Jaques Salomon Courtonne, a Dutch merchant in the service of the Danish Asiatic Company.

In November 1770, he left the army with the rank of captain to join his father-in-law on an expedition to Canton with the DAC ship Dronning Sophia Magdalena.

He formed a close friendship with the Hong merchant Geowqua (Qiaoguan, 伍乔官: 1734–1802), (the first member of the Qu family to participate in the Canton system), whose warehouse was located next to the DAC factory.

Allegedly, Prince Lee Boo visited Mourier's home more than once when the Morse called at Macao on the way back to London.

[1] Before leaving Canton, Mourier had purchased 13 crates of silk cloth and nankings on commission from Niels Lunde Reiersen.

The cloth textiles were ultimately confiscated and Mourier was fined 1,000 Danish rigsdaler and fired from the DAC.

She was the daughter of a naval officer, vice admiral Adolph Tobias Herbst and Anne Magdalene Rasch.

During the British Siege of Copenhagen in 1807, Scottish soldiers suspected Mourier of being a spy due to his excellent command of the English language.

Nourier published three articles in Klaproth's journal Asiatisches Magazin in 1802, one of them was concerned with music and opera in Canton.

His eldest daughter Elisabeth Jacobine Vilhelmine Mourier (1778-1813) married the landowner Peter Johansen de Neergaard.

The daughter Henriette Marie Mourier (1788-1882= married the nobleman Balthasar Johannes Kaas af Mur (7180-1785) and secondly captain in the Royal Danish Nacy Georg Frederich Ulrich /1762-1830).