George Carter Stent
George Carter Stent (1833–1884) was an English soldier in India and China, an agent of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, and a translator of Chinese texts into English.
Life
George Carter Stent was born into a family of modest means in Canterbury in 1833.Idema 2017, p. 119. He was the second son of James Stent, of 2 King's Bridge, Canterbury.{{Cite news |date=29 November 1884 |title=Deaths |pages=4 |work=Whitstable Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/816621285/?terms=%22George%20Carter%20Stent%22&match=1}} Shortly after his twentieth birthday he joined the British Army as a soldier of the 14th (King's Light) Dragoons and proceeded with the regiment to India, where in the 1850s he witnessed and later wrote about the Great Mutiny.Idema 2017, p. 120. By the mid-1860s, he was in China, serving in the guard of the British legation at Peking. He displayed an affinity for Chinese literature, and with the help of Thomas Francis Wade was recruited into the Maritime Customs Service. He died on 1 September 1884, at Takaw (Kaohsiung), China.
Works
- Scraps from my Sabretasche: Being Personal Adventures While in the 14th (King's Light) Dragoons (London: W.H. Allen & Co.).
- Chinese and English Vocabulary in the Pekinese Dialect (Shanghai: Customs Press, 1871).Idema 2017, p. 121.
- Chinese and English Pocket Dictionary (Shanghai: Kelly & Co., 1874).Idema 2017, p. 122.
- The Jade Chaplet, in Twenty-Four Beads (London: London by Trübner & Co., 1874), a collection of songs, ballads, &c., from the Chinese.Idema 2017, p. 123.{{Cite news |date=7 March 1874 |title=Literary and Artistic |pages=6 |work=The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/821018652/?terms=%22George%20Carter%20Stent%22&match=1}}
- Entombed Alive, and Other Poems (William H. Allen & Co., 1878), from the Chinese.Idema 2017, pp. 123, 125, 127.{{Cite news |date=28 September 1878 |title=Literature, Science, and Art |pages=6 |work=The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/385077640/?terms=%22George%20Carter%20Stent%22&match=1}}
See also
References
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Bibliography
- {{Cite journal |last=Idema |first=Wilt L. |date=2017 |title=George Carter Stent (1833–1884) as a Translator of Traditional Chinese Popular Literature |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/45014213 |journal=Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews |volume=39 |pages=119–33|jstor=45014213 }}
- {{Cite book |last=MacKay |first=Lynn |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv37kck66.8 |title=Women and the British Army, 1815–1880 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |year=2023 |pages=112–155 |chapter=3. Life Abroad|doi=10.2307/j.ctv37kck66.8 }}
- {{Cite news |date=24 May 1884 |title=Literary Notices |pages=12 |work=Supplement to the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/390349172/?terms=%22George%20Carter%20Stent%22&match=1}}
- {{Cite journal |date=1887 |title=Notes of the Quarter (March, April, May) |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25208873 |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=500–51|jstor=25208873 }}
External links
- {{Cite web |title=Stent, G. C. (George Carter), 1833–1884 |url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Stent%2C%20G%2E%20C%2E%20%28George%20Carter%29%2C%201833%2D1884 |website=The Online Books Page}}
- {{Cite web |title=George Carter Stent, MNCBRAS |url=https://www.takaoclub.com/personalities/Stent/index.htm |website=The Takao Club}}
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