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In between Lord Elgin's two trips to China, he had visited Japan. In August 1858, he signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, whose negotiation was much eased by the recent Harris Treaty between Japan and the United States.
20 lip 1998 · In 1857–59 and 1860–61 he served as special commissioner to China, and in 1858 he made an official visit to Japan. In England he served as postmaster general (1859–60) in Lord Palmerston’s Cabinet, before undertaking his last post as viceroy of India in 1862.
26 kwi 2016 · Lord Elgin, as a diplomat for Britain in China during the Second Opium War, was sent abroad to convince Chinese officials to renegotiate a treaty between the two parties, as the Chinese in the past were beginning to reject the old treaties.
He served as Governor of Jamaica (1842-1846), Governor General of the Province of Canada (1847-1854), and Viceroy of India (1862-1863). In 1857, he was appointed High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East to assist in the process of opening up China and Japan to Western trade.
In 1857 Laurence Oliphant (1829–88), lawyer, journalist, diplomat, and sometime spy, later Liberal MP, satirical novelist, and, for a time, adherent of the religious mystic Thomas Harris, became private secretary to Lord Elgin (1811–63), accompanying him to China, and thence to Japan, on a mission to protect and extend British trading ...
10 lip 2024 · Notwithstanding his views regarding the need for European influence to shape China's future success in government, his clearly written narrative illuminates contemporary diplomacy and the events surrounding the Convention of Peking in October 1860.
Visiting China and Japan in 1858 and 1859, he oversaw the end of the Second Opium War and ordered the destruction of the Summer Palace (the ruling Qing dynasty's residence and seat of government), near Peking (today Beijing).
