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THE CHALLENGER: HUGH HAMILTON LINDSAY AND THE RISE OF BRITISH ASIA, 1832–1865*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2012

Robert Bickers
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This paper explores the life and activities of Hugh Hamilton Lindsay (1802–81), an East India Company official who worked at Canton from 1820. Lindsay's is a key voice in the challenge to the Company's policies in China on the cusp of the abolition of its monopoly, and to British policy on the eve of the first ‘Opium War’ with the empire of the Qing. Lindsay first made his mark on Sino-British relations by leading a covert East India Company foray north along the Chinese coast in 1832 in the ship Lord Amherst, and in widely disseminating his bullish conclusions and policy recommendations in publications and reports that followed. He is known as a bellicose pamphleteer, but a more complex picture emerges if we follow Lindsay and his commercial activities as the British fanned out from Canton into the Chinese ‘treaty ports’ opened after 1842, and across Britain's wider developing empire in Asia. His field of operations developed to include the British colony of Labuan and led him into a heated public conflict with Sir James Brooke in the early 1850s. Lindsay was never happy with the status quo: he lobbied and hectored, and in business he innovated, and pushed hard on the frontiers of British power and influence. Commercial opportunity drove him, but so did a specific vision of the ‘English character’, and notions of pride and national and personal honour.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 22 , December 2012 , pp. 141 - 169
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2012

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The author would like to thank Sir William Young for alerting me to the existence of George Chinnery's portrait of Lindsay, and for allowing me to reproduce it here.

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25 SRO, D(W)1920/4/2, Hugh Hamilton Lindsay to mother, 15 Nov. 1829.

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38 Hugh Hamilton Lindsay letter to the Times, 23 July 1847, 6. The election is described in detail in the Standard, 11 May 1841, 1, and the Morning Post, 12 May 1841, 5.

39 Regular advertisements can be found in the Times, for example, between 15 Apr. 1840 and 22 Sept. 1864: office address, 8 East India Chambers, Leadenhall Street.

40 SRO D(W) 1920/5, H. H. Lindsay to Lindsay & Co., 10 Dec. 1856, and ‘Partnership Dissolution Agreement’, 10 Dec. 1856; [illeg.] to R. C. Antrobus, 21 Jan. 1863.

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44 Spirit: SRO, D(W) 1920/5, [illeg.] to R. C. Antrobus, 21 Jan. 1863.

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49 Dow letters, 16 Nov. 1851, 6 Jan. 1852, describing dinners at ‘Hoggs’: Hogg was the Shanghai partner, and would have been living at the house. On the persistence of social status as ‘a proxy for directorial integrity’ even as company structures and law evolved, see Johnson, Paul, Making the Market: Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism (Cambridge, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, quotation from 205.

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62 Johnson, Making the Market; Timothy Alborn, Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England (1998).

63 Northcote's affidavit: 4 Mar. 1854: EAC Report, 1854, 71–4.

64 Times, 28 June 1842, 4, 21 July 1852, 4; EAC Report, 1854, preface, v.

65 Brooke to Hugh Hamilton Lindsay, 7 Oct. 1850, SRO, D(W) 1920/4/2.

66 H. H. Lindsay, The Eastern Archipelago Company and Sir James Brooke (1853).

67 Calculated from data in EAC Report 1854, and detail from the EAC share register published in Sir James Brooke, A Vindication of his Character and Proceedings in Reply to the Statements Printed and Circulated by Joseph Hume, Esq. M.P. Addressed to Henry Drummond, Esq M.P. (1853), 29. Lindsay held 713 out of the 2,000 shares in Aug. 1851. Wise held 728.

68 Times, 21 Apr. 1852, 7, 21 June 1852, 7; law reports in The Queen on the Prosecution of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. against the Eastern Archipelago Company; Containing, the Judgements of the Queen's Bench and the Exchequer Chamber, Together with Two Articles from the ‘Times’ Newspaper on the Merits of the Case (1853).

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72 Lindsay retained involvement in a rump successor, the China Steamship and Labuan Coal Company, however, Times, 17 Aug. 1867, 4. The Company was active from 1861, at least, registered as a joint stock company on 8 June 1865, and formally struck off in 1883: London Gazette, 23 Jan. 1883, 403. Although it had been voluntarily wound up in 1866/7: see Law Times, 6 Feb. 1869, 667–9. See also Cuthbert Collingwood, Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Sea . . . (1868), 157–60.

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74 EAC Report, 1854, 317–18.

75 R. W. Little to parents, 17 May 1865, Little family papers, private collection.

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80 At the Great Exhibition in 1851 he provided sea slugs, swallows’ nests (including display), silk and china, and was commended his contributions; at the Sydenham Crystal Palace in 1855 ‘a Chinese homestead’; he had earlier sent back Manila birds, one of which was named for him; Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition Was Divided (1852), 66; Observer, 7 May 1855, 6; Philosophical Magazine, 10:58 (1831), 302–4, report of Zoological Society meeting of 28 June 1831.

81 ‘Brief Account of the English Character’, BL, APAC, IOR/10/30, Secret Consultations of Select Committee of Supercargoes, fo. 125.

82 Lindsay, Is the War with China a Just One?, 36–7, 140; Rupture with China, 26; Remarks On Occurrences in China, 41–2, 103.

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84 SRO, D(W)1920/4/1, H. H. Lindsay to mother, draft, ‘Amoy’, Apr. 1832.