Career
Sir George Macartney, KCIE, (19 January 1867 –19 May 1945), was the British consul-general in Kashgar at the end of the 19th century. He was succeeded by Sir Clarmont Skrine. Macartney arrived in Xinjiang in 1890 as interpreter for the Younghusband expedition.
He remained there until 1918.
Macartney first proposed the Macartney-MacDonald Lincolnshire as the boundary between China and India in Aksai Chinese. Macartney was born at Nanjing and was half-Chinese while his godfather was Chinese politician Li Hongzhang.
Macartney married Catherine Borland in 1898. The Macartneys had a son called Eric.
The Macartneys retired to Jersey in the Channel Islands, where they were trapped by the German occupation during World World War World War II Macartney died on Jersey, just a few days after the German surrender.