Scottish Mandarin: The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Johnston

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Chapter 1 The Predictable Path (1874–1898) 1. In the Scottish census for 1861, Robert lists his occupation as a writer. 2. The Scottish Law Review 18 (1902): 229–30 and The Scots Law Times 10 (1902– 3), 19 July 1902. Writers to the Signet are the senior group of solicitors in Scotland. 3. Constance Margaretta Fleming Johnston was born on 5 May 1873. 4. The Scottish census for 1891 lists a gardener, cook, ladies’ maid, and housemaid as live-in servants at Goshen Bank. 5. A great deal of information about the family’s purchases is contained in a fascinating file, Concluded Sequestration Processes, Vol. 1, p. 23, CS318/50/175, Scottish Record Office. 6. Johnston to Stewart Lockhart, 27 May 1908, Vol. 9, Stewart Lockhart Papers, National Library of Scotland (henceforth cited as SLPNLS). 7. Enclosed in Johnston to Stewart Lockhart, 25 May 1908, Vol. 9, SLPNLS. 8. Johnston to Loveday, 2 August 1897, Loveday Family Papers (henceforth cited as LFP). 9. Johnston to Stewart Lockhart, 20 August 1926, Vol. 10A, SLPNLS. 10. Johnston to R. A. Robertson, 16 August 1934, File 1, Box 39, J. and R. A. Robertson Papers (henceforth cited as JRAR). 11. Johnston to Loveday, 29 September 1897, LFP. 12. Johnston to Robertson, 25 September 1912, File 2, Box 16, JRAR. 13. List of creditors, 14 January 1903, Concluded Sequestration Processes, CS318/50/175. 14. Johnston to Robertson, 1 May 1912, File 2, Box 16, JRAR. 15. Johnston to Stewart Lockhart, 9 January 1906, Vol. 9, SLPNLS. 16. Johnston to Stewart Lockhart, 27 May 1908, Vol. 9, SLPNLS. 17. Clementi to Loveday, 6 October 1900, LFP. 18. Clementi to Loveday, 30 December 1896, LFP. 19. Queen of the Fairies: A Children’s Opera in Three Acts, libretto by Reginald Fleming Johnston, music by C. E. Fleming Johnston (Edinburgh L Gray & Co, November 1892). 20. Ibid., p. 7. 21. The Scotsman, 19 March 1903. Notes 22. Johnston to Loveday, undated, LFP. 23. Johnston to Robertson, 25 September 1912, File 2, Box 16, JRAR, and Johnston to Loveday, 7 October 1897, LFP. 24. Johnston to Stewart Lockhart, 22 September 1915, Vol. 10, SLPNLS. 25. Johnston to Loveday, 30 March 1897, LFP, and Clementi to Loveday, 6 November 1900, LFP. 26. Memories of Oxford in 1894. Reminiscences of Thomas Loveday, transcribed by Mrs Sarah Markham, pp. 29–33 (Magdalen College Record, Oxford, 1983); Memories of Magdalen and Oxford. Reminiscences of Thomas Loveday, transcribed by Mrs Sarah Markham, pp. 39–45 (Magdalen College Record, Oxford, 1984). 27. Johnston to Loveday, 2 August 1898, LFP. 28. Ibid. 29. Johnston to Edith Stewart Lockhart, 18 May 1910, Vol. 9, SLPNLS. 30. Johnston to Stewart Lockhart, 16 March 1911, Vol. 9, SLPNLS. 31. Application for The United Empire Club, 2 June 1910, Vol. 9, SLPNLS. 32. Johnston to Loveday, 2 August 1898, LFP. 33. Johnston to Loveday, 29 September 1897, LFP. 34. Ibid. 35. Johnston to Loveday, 30 March 1897, LFP. 36. Johnston to Loveday, 2 August 1898, LFP. 37. She married W. E. H. Terry on 24 September 1897, Marriages solemnized in the District of Bourke, Colony of Victoria, 1897, Record Office of Victoria. 38. Johnston to Loveday, 2 August 1898, LFP. 39. Ibid. 40. Ibid. 41. Johnston to Loveday, undated [September 1898], LFP. 42. Ibid. 43. Ibid. 44. Johnston to Stewart Lockhart, 25 May 1908, Vol. 9, SLPNLS. 45. Johnston to Loveday, 29 March 1899, LFP. 46. Robert Nield, The China Coast: Trade and the First Treaty Ports (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K.) Co., 2010) gives an excellent survey of these ports. Chapter 2 China Beckons (1898–1903) 1. Johnston to Loveday, 29 March 1899, LFP. 2. Johnston to Armitage, 27 December 1898, LFP. 3. Johnston to Loveday, 29 March 1899, LFP. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid. 6. The extent of the unrest remains a matter of some dispute. A contemporary account can be found in Stewart Lockhart’s diaries for the period in Vol. 36 SLPNLS; in Peter Wesley-Smith, Unequal Treaty 1898–1997 (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1980); and in Patrick H. Hase, The Six-Day War of 1899: Hong Kong in the Age of Imperialism (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008). 250 Notes to pp. 9–24 7. Shiona Airlie, Thistle and Bamboo: The Life and Times of Sir James Stewart Lockhart (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989; reprinted by Hong Kong University Press, 2010). 8. Johnston to Loveday, 28 October 1899, LFP...