Backhouse, E. (Edmund), Sir, 1873-1944

LC control no.	n 50020297
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Backhouse, E. (Edmund), Sir, 1873-1944 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Backhouse, Edmund, Sir, 1873-1944 Backhouse, Edmund Trelawny, Sir, 1873-1944 Backhouse, Edmund Trelawny, Sir, bart., 1873-1944 Backhouse, Trelawny, Sir, 1873-1944
Other standard no.	6586 0000000109886221 30513 74882793 Q724298
Associated country	Great Britain China
Birth date	1873-10-20
Death date	1944-01-08
Place of birth	Middleton Tyas (England)
Place of death	Beijing (China)
Field of activity	China--Study and teaching
Profession or occupation	Sinologists Translators
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Found in	Bland, J. O. P. China under the empress ... 1910 Trevor-Roper, H.R. Hermit of Peking, 1986: CIP t.p. (Sir Edmund Backhouse) LC data base, 5/5/86 (hdg.: Backhouse, Edmund Trelawny, Sir, bart., 1873-1944; usage: E. Backhouse) Décadence mandchoue, 2011: title page (Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse) page 277 (died January 8, 1944; born October 20, 1873) jacket (Baronet; translator working for the British Foreign Service and London Times in Peking; linguist and Chinese scholar) The dead past, 2021: title page (Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse) Oxford dictionary of national biography, via WWW, February 8, 2022 (Backhouse, Sir Edmund Trelawny, second baronet (1873-1944), Sinologist and fraudster; born on 20 October 1873 at The Rookery, Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire; Backhouse's notorious two volumes of memoirs, minutely detailing his intimacy with, among many others, Lord Rosebery and the Dowager Empress Cixi, are largely constructed around imaginary interactions between himself and the blue-blooded and infamous; died on 8 January 1944 in the Catholic Hôpital St Michel, Wangfujing, Peking, and was buried at the Chala Catholic cemetery at Pingzemen)
Associated language	chi eng