1873 - 1944
Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet British Linguist
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British Linguist Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet was born Edmund Trelawny Backhouse on 20th October, 1873 in Darlington, United Kingdom and passed away on 8th Jan 1944 Beijing, China aged 70. He is most remembered for China Under the Empress Dowager (1910); Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (1914). His zodiac sign is Libra.
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| First Name |
Edmund
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| Middle Name |
Backhouse, 2nd
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| Last Name |
Baronet
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| Full Name at Birth |
Edmund Trelawny Backhouse
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| Alternative Name |
Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet
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| Birthday |
20th October, 1873
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| Birthplace |
Darlington, United Kingdom
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| Died |
8th January, 1944
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| Place of Death |
Beijing, China
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| Zodiac Sign |
Libra
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| Sexuality |
Gay
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| Nationality |
British
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| University |
Winchester College, Merton College, Oxford.
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| Occupation Text |
Oriental scholar, Sinologist, linguist, WW secret agent, forger
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| Occupation |
Linguist
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| Claim to Fame |
China Under the Empress Dowager (1910); Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (1914)
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Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (20 October 1873 – 8 January 1944) was a British oriental scholar, Sinologist, and linguist whose books exerted a powerful influence on the Western view of the last decades of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Since his death, however, it has been established that the major source of his China Under the Empress Dowager is a forgery, most likely by Backhouse himself. His biographer, Hugh Trevor-Roper, unmasked Backhouse as "a confidence man with few equals," who had also duped the British government, Oxford University, the American Bank Note Company and John Brown & Company. Derek Sandhaus, the editor of Backhouse's memoirs Décadence Mandchoue, argues that they are also an undoubted confabulation but contain plausible recollections of scenes and details.
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