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SUMMARY:Friends of Sir Robert Hart - Mary Tiffen
DTSTART:20121101T180000Z
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CONTACT:Jilly Hurley
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, and her recent book ‘Friends of Sir Robert Ha
 rt’\, Mary Tiffen examines her own family background\, and finds a fasci
 nating story of her connection over three generations with an outstanding 
 Ulster man\, Sir Robert Hart\, who was head of the Chinese Maritime Custom
 s from 1863 to 1908. Sir Robert Hart had a hectic career in the service of
  the Qing dynasty. It ruined his family life\, but  his friendship with th
 ree generations of Carrall women  helped to relieve  his loneliness and is
 olation.   Mary’s book uses letters\, diaries and over seventy photograp
 hs to bring nineteenth-century China to life.\n\nMary Tiffen read history 
 at Cambridge University and after a PhD at the London School of Economics 
 had a career in examining  the social and economic aspects of agricultural
  change in Africa and the Middle East.  After retiring in 2002\, Mary turn
 ed her attention to her own family history. She  visited the site of her m
 other’s birth and her grandfather’s death in China\, as related in the
  prologue of her book\, ‘Friends of Sir  Robert Hart’.\n
LOCATION:Lucy Cavendish College
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