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Sir Rutherford Alcock. Sir John Rutherford Alcock, KCB (25 May 1809 – 2 November 1897) was the first British diplomatic representative to live in Japan.
Mar 24, 2023 · Learn about Sir Rutherford Alcock, the first British Minister to Japan, who played a key role in opening ports and negotiating with the Shogunate. Read his observations and reflections on Japan in his book The Capital of the Tycoon (1863).
Sir Rutherford Alcock. Also known as Sir Rutherford Alcock primary name: Alcock, Rutherford ...
Rutherford Alcock obtained the MRCS diploma in 1831. During the following year he volunteered for service as a medical officer in the British Marine Brigade, which fought during the Miguelite War in Portugal from 1832 to 1834.
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Sir Rutherford Alcock. First British Minister to Japan (1859-1865), Consul (1844-1859) and Minister (1865-1870) to China. The son of a village doctor, Rutherford Alcock trained in medicine and became a battlefield surgeon, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars there in the 1830s.
Mar 15, 2011 · The Englishman in China during the Victorian Era, as illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L. Two vols. By Alexander Michie. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900.) | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society | Cambridge Core.
Mar 24, 2023 · Sir Rutherford Alcock was born in Ealing, a suburb of London, in May 1809. Raised in a physicians’ family, he initially pursued a career in the medical field, and served as a medical...
