Qing · Merchant

Dent 顛地

Attested AD 1822 - AD 1830

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Dent was a Merchant.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1822 to AD 1830 道光
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 366, passages 169, 173

Career and standing

English consul 英領事
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 366, passage 173

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 366, passage 174

Events and relationships

Bribed
Legal · Briber · With Li Hongbin (李鴻賓)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 366, passages 173-174

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 366Volume 366 Biographies 153: Sun Yuting, Jiang Youxian, Li Hongbin · 2 passages

英領事顛地知洋行獲利厚，欲以洋廝容阿華充商，諸商不允，乃賄鴻賓得之。 The English consul Dent knew how profitable the foreign trade was and wished to install the foreign clerk Rong Ahua as a licensed merchant. When the other merchants refused, he bribed Li Hongbin and secured the appointment.

顛地曰：「吾以為總督若何嚴重，詎消數万金便營私耶！」 Dent said, "I thought a governor-general would be so formidable—who would have guessed he could be bought for private gain with only a few tens of thousands in gold!"