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  • Thumbnail for Rutherford Alcock
    Sir John Rutherford Alcock, KCB (25 May 1809 – 2 November 1897) was the first British diplomatic representative to live in Japan. Alcock was born in St...
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    Japan – including Engelbert Kaempfer, Philipp Franz von Siebold and Rutherford Alcock, who visited Edo-period Japan – described ohaguro as "an abhorrent...
    39 KB (4,153 words) - 04:20, 29 September 2024
  • Rutherford Alcock, British diplomat Siccature Alcock, birth name of Jah Cure, Jamaican reggae musician Terry Alcock, English footballer Thomas Alcock...
    2 KB (301 words) - 09:52, 24 September 2024
  • Japan wanes as British influence strengthens, led by Ernest Satow and Rutherford Alcock. In 1863, the Blade Twin continues working with Ryoma's group in Edo...
    23 KB (2,620 words) - 01:19, 16 September 2024
  • modern diplomatic representation in Japan of various European States. Rutherford Alcock (1859, United Kingdom) The first British diplomatic representative...
    18 KB (2,407 words) - 04:15, 29 September 2024
  • with the given name include: Rutherford H. Adkins (1924–1998), World War II pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen Rutherford Alcock (1809–1897), British diplomatic...
    7 KB (890 words) - 09:00, 23 June 2024
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    1873–1874 Sir Henry Frere 1874–1876 Sir Henry Rawlinson 1876–1878 Sir Rutherford Alcock 1878–1879 Frederick, Earl of Dufferin 1879–1880 Thomas, Earl of Northbrook...
    46 KB (4,908 words) - 22:07, 22 July 2024
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    foreigner was by Sir Rutherford Alcock in September 1860, who ascended the mountain in 8 hours and descended in 3 hours.: 427  Alcock's brief narrative in...
    68 KB (6,113 words) - 05:08, 20 September 2024
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    capital of £300,000. The directors were Dent himself together with Rutherford Alcock, Richard Biddulph Martin, Admiral Richard Mayne and William Henry...
    28 KB (2,938 words) - 03:23, 31 August 2024
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    commanding the British ships in the waters of Japan on orders of Sir Rutherford Alcock, representing Britain in Japan and the British government. Support...
    69 KB (7,748 words) - 17:35, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harry Parkes (diplomat)
    Parkes was appointed as a translator in Amoy. In March 1845, he and Rutherford Alcock (the British consul in Amoy) were transferred to Fuzhou, where they...
    30 KB (3,885 words) - 03:55, 2 June 2024
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    representative of the British government would be permitted to reside in Edo. Rutherford Alcock was appointed Consul-General in Japan and selected Tōzen-ji to be...
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    direct Japanese influence were made by Daniel Lee of Manchester. With Rutherford Alcock also organising the unofficial Japan Booth, the 1862 International...
    76 KB (9,466 words) - 12:07, 29 September 2024
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    Murchison Bingham Baring Roderick Murchison Henry Rawlinson Henry Frere Rutherford Alcock Thomas Baring Henry Bruce John Campbell Richard Strachey M. E. Grant...
    84 KB (7,214 words) - 19:04, 27 September 2024
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    Authority File Archived 24 May 2012 at archive.today. Nussbaum, "Alcock, Rutherford," pp. 22-23., p. 22, at Google Books Nussbaum, "Parkes, Harry Smith...
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    under direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate. British consul Sir Rutherford Alcock made the first recorded ascent on Mount Fuji by a non-Japanese person...
    15 KB (1,054 words) - 14:29, 3 October 2024
  • Murchison Bingham Baring Roderick Murchison Henry Rawlinson Henry Frere Rutherford Alcock Thomas Baring Henry Bruce John Campbell Richard Strachey M. E. Grant...
    20 KB (1,361 words) - 20:31, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leonard Darwin
    Murchison Bingham Baring Roderick Murchison Henry Rawlinson Henry Frere Rutherford Alcock Thomas Baring Henry Bruce John Campbell Richard Strachey M. E. Grant...
    7 KB (801 words) - 22:23, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet
    Murchison Bingham Baring Roderick Murchison Henry Rawlinson Henry Frere Rutherford Alcock Thomas Baring Henry Bruce John Campbell Richard Strachey M. E. Grant...
    21 KB (2,327 words) - 17:50, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Townsend Harris
    fellow Western diplomats Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek, Max von Brandt, Rutherford Alcock and Gustave Duchesne, Prince de Bellecourt. Although these men were...
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