Talk:William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst

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Is this the proper name/title for the article, or should it be simply William Pitt Amherst? --zandperl 20:46, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

For all peers of the realm the proper title would include the peerage, so yes, William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst is correct. Mackensen 20:50, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

This note[edit]

NB.Amherst WAS allowed to enter Peking, having been rush there overnight. But on grounds of illness- in reality he hadn't had time to prepare nor did he even have his official clothes with him since his luggage lagged behind him, he rejected the emperor's call to appear. Instead of being granted another opportunity to appear before the emperor he was dismissed and didn't see the emperor.(See Tuck, Patrick Britain and the China Trade 1635-1842, Volume 10, Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences During the British Embassy to Pekin in 1816 George Thomas Staunton, Routledge, 2000 (First pub. 1824))

The above needs to be rephrased in any case, but is this true? Wally 06:46, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. There is a detailed account in the diary of John Francis Davis who was present as a young man, he acted as translator. He became the second governor of Hong Kong. Walt1860 (talk) 15:02, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

cost of the burma war[edit]

"The war was to take two years, with 15,000 killed on the British side and cost 13 billion pounds, contributing to an economic crisis in India." does anybody know what the source for this figure was? 13 billion pounds at the time was an *immense* amount of money.Zebulin 10:35, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, should've been "million", thanks for the catch. I'm correcting it now Karajanis 19:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Colonization of Singapore[edit]

It was by Pitt’s order that resident John Crawford of Singapore wrote and signed the Treaty of Friendship, which yielded the Malay sultans control of the island to the EIC. Should this not be included among his tenure as Governor General? 42.61.224.127 (talk) 14:27, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]