Switzerland (nation)
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William Alexander Pickering, [circa 1902-1906], 1902 - 1906
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 7/22
Scope and Contents
113 x 149 mm (mounted on card). A full length portrait showing Pickering seated at a garden table in Locarno where he lived between circa 1902-1906. Pickering (1840-1907) served in the Far East in the Mercantile Marine between 1856 and 1862, joining in that year the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs at Foochow; from 1866-1870 he was employed by a mercantile house in Formosa and in 1871 was appointed a Chinese Interpreter in the Starits Settlements Civil Service. He became Protector of...
Dates:
1902 - 1906
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