Talk:Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet

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Miscellaneous notices relating to China: and our commercial intercourse with that country, including a few translations from the Chinese language By Sir George Thomas Staunton

http://books.google.com/books?id=p9gMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Rajmaan (talk) 22:35, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Birth place

It seems to me "Born at Milford House near Salisbury" needs to be rephrased. This seems to suggest Staunton was born in a house called "Milford House". And this house does exist. However, Staunton's memoir suggested "I was born...at Milford, near Salisbury", rather than a house called "Milford House". The real world "Milford House", according to its website, was home for Earl of Ilchester. It doesn't seem to be what Staunton suggested as "house of my maternal grandfather, Benjamin Collins, Esq".

So seems to me it's better to reword as "born at Milford, near Salisbury".

Linmao (talk) 20:52, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]