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Macartney, George Macartney, 1st Earl

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Macartney, George Macartney, 1st Earl (1737–1806)

English diplomat and administrator. He was chief secretary for Ireland 1769–72, and sat in the Irish Parliament. He was later the first British ambassador to China (1792).

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. For two successive five-year periods, from 1775 to 1785, he was governor of Grenada and Madras (now Chennai) respectively. He was governor of Cape Colony 1796–98.



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