MARGARY

August us Raymond (3 son of Henry Joshua Margary). b. Belgaum, Bombay 26 May 1846; ed. in France, at North Walsham gr. sch. and at Univ. coll. London; a student interpreter on Chinese consular establishment 2 Feb. 1867, went to Pekin, March 1867, a third cla a istant 18 Nov. 1869; left Hankow on an overland journey to Mandalay 4 Sep. 1874, ascended the Yuen river and travelled by land through Kweichow and Yunnan, reaching Bhamo 17 Jany. 1875, being the first English man traversing this route; sent forward to survey road from Burmah to Western China 19 Feb. 1875; murdered at Man we in on the Chinese frontier 21 Feb. 1875. Notes of a journey from Hankow to Ta-li Fu. Shanghai 1875; The journey of A. R. Margary from Shanghai to Bhamo (1876), preface pp. i–xxi , portrait ; J. Anderson’s Mandalay to Momien (1876) 364–449; I.L.N. lxvi 233, 257 (1875), portrait ; Graphic , xi 296 (1875), portrait .