Education
He studied medicine and served as a surgeon in the Crimean War, then went with his regiment to China and resigned his commission to join the Chinese army of General Charles Gordon which was subduing the Taiping rebels.
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Halliday Macartney
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Career
He became a civil servant of the Chinese imperial government, first in China and then in England. The Macartneys lived in Nanjing until 1876 when Macartney left for London to serve as secretary to successive Chinese ministers at the Court of Street James. Macartney received the first class of the Order of the Double Dragon in May 1902.
Membership
Macartney was a member of the same family as George Macartney, the 18th century British ambassador to China.
