Margary, AUGUSTUS RAYMOND

Margary, AUGUSTUS RAYMOND, traveller, was born 26th May 1846, at Belgaum, in the presidency of Bombay, the son of an English officer. Educated in England at Brighton College and University College, London, he qualified for a student-interpretship in China, and went out in 1867. During the next six years he served at Peking, in Formosa, at Chefoo, and at Shanghai. In August 1874 he was ordered to cross south-west China to Burma to meet a British mission under Colonel Browne, the object of which was to open the overland route between Burma and China. Margary was to act as interpreter and guide to the mission. He successfully accomplished the perilous journey, and set out back again with Colonel Browne, but was murdered by the Chinese at a place called Manwyne on 21st February 1875. The Journals and Letters of his journey, together with a biographical preface, and a concluding chapter by Sir Rutherford Alcock, were published in 1876.