Sir John Bronan's tenure of the! post of ILBAL Consul-General in Shanghai will terminate within tess inn six years of the centenary of that office. Sir John is the fourteenth holder of the post which was created in 1843 with the appointment. of Captain afterwards " Sir) Georse Balfour. It was raised toa Consulate-
General in" 1877 when "Sir" Daaiel Robertson who had been Consul from 1054 to 1858, coming in between Sir Rutherford Alcock and Sir Harry Parkes, but, accor not' proceed".
So actually Sir John Brenan is fifteenth in the line, The] British Consulates in China are not the oldest in the service: that privilege, judging from the Foreign] OMice' List, belongs to Cairo, where) Santo Seghezzio, who died on Jan, 4, 1630 was "consular-agent," although the next" substantive appointment there was not made apparently until 1830. Madeira has @ better claim to priority for John Cartre. appointed there in 1658, was duly followed by cloves successors carrying the record to 1771 when unless Charles Murray served for 3 years before Joseph Pringle took office in. 1802" there} seems to have been a hiatus. should be noted, however, that Henry Veitch "who succeeded ° Pringle Maderia "served from 1809 to 1635, Other British consulates dating from the 18th century are Salonika, 1724, Genoa, "1726, Basta, 1720, "Trieste, 1774, Philadelphia 1785, Cadiz 1790, Jumir 1703, New York, 1792, Baghdad} 4798 and Aleppo 1799,
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