Edmund Backhouse

GPTKB entity

Statements (29)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Magdalen_College,_Oxford
gptkbp:baronetage Backhouse baronets
gptkbp:birthDate 1873-10-20
gptkbp:burialPlace British Cemetery, Beijing
gptkbp:deathDate 1944-01-08
gptkbp:fullName Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Edmund Backhouse
gptkbp:knownFor authoring 'China Under the Empress Dowager'
forgeries of Chinese historical documents
gptkbp:language gptkb:Chinese
English
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableFor fabricating diaries and memoirs
gptkbp:notableWork Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking
China Under the Empress Dowager
gptkbp:occupation translator
sinologist
forger
gptkbp:parent gptkb:Jonathan_Backhouse
Florence Backhouse
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Darlington,_England
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Beijing,_China
gptkbp:sexualOrientation homosexual
gptkbp:subjectOf biography 'The Dead Past' by Hugh Trevor-Roper
biography 'Backhouse: The Man Who Lied to China' by Derek Sandhaus
gptkbp:title 2nd Baronet
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Backhouse_family
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7