Thomas Gell (葛顯禮)

Overview

The translated histories identify Thomas Gell as an administrator, diplomat, and official. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese
Personal	Thomas Gell	葛顯禮
Title	Customs Commissioner	稅務司
Personal name	Gell	葛顯禮
Title	Ningbo customs commissioner	寧海關稅務司
Personal name	Thomas Gell	葛顯禮

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:152:s0020

Roles

Administrator
Diplomat
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒二十一年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1895
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:152:s0013, qingshigao:152:s0027, qingshigao:152:s0046
Source Date: Text: 光緒十一年 · Western Year: AD 1885
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0038
Source Date: Text: 光緒十一年間 · Western Year: AD 1885
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020

Career and standing

Label: Customs Commissioner / 稅務司 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020
Label: Ningbo Customs Commissioner / 寧海關稅務司 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0038

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:152:s0020, qingshigao:152:s0038
Place: Hong Kong / 香港 · Relation: traveled-to
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020
Place: Japan / 日本 · Relation: traveled-to
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020
Place: Ninghai customs / 寧海關 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0038
Organization: Customs service / 稅關 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020, qingshigao:152:s0038

Works and attributed material

Work: Universal Postal regulations / 萬國郵政條例 · Relation: submitted
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0046

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: negotiator · Action: negotiated-withdrawal-of-foreign-post-offices · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十一年間 · Western Year: AD 1885
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020
Kind: administrative · Role: advisor · Action: planned-postal-service-with-zhang-zhidong
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0027
Kind: administrative · Role: submitter · Action: submitted-universal-postal-regulations
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0046

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 152Volume 152 Treatises 127: Transportation 4, You Zheng · 4 passages

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光緒十一年間，前浙江寧紹台道薛福成據委員李奎條陳，請中國自行設局，以挽利權，並經稅務司葛顯禮前往香港、日本，向彼國商議，收回上海所設英、日兩國郵局，已有端倪。 In the eleventh year of Guangxu, Xue Fucheng, formerly intendant of the Ning-Shao-Tai circuit, acting on a proposal by Li Kui, urged China to open its own offices to recover commercial rights; Commissioner Gell had also gone to Hong Kong and Japan to negotiate withdrawal of the British and Japanese post offices in Shanghai, and progress was already visible.

現復與葛顯禮面加籌議，知其情形熟悉，各關稅務司熟諳辦法者當不乏人。 I have met again with Gell to plan further; he knows the situation well, and plenty of customs commissioners at the ports understand how to operate the system.

十一年，曾國荃咨稱州同李圭條陳郵政利益，並據寧海關稅務司葛顯禮申稱，香港英監督有原將上海英局改歸華關自辦之議。 In the eleventh year, Zeng Guoquan relayed Li Gui's memorial on postal benefits and Gell's report that the British superintendent in Hong Kong had once proposed turning Shanghai's British office over to Chinese customs.

葛顯禮呈送萬國郵政條例，聯約者六十餘國。 Gell submitted the Universal Postal Convention, signed by more than sixty countries.