George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
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The Right Honourable The Earl Macartney KB |
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Portrait of Lord Macartney by Lemuel Francis Abbott.
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| Governor of Grenada | |
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In office 1776–1779 |
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| Monarch | George III |
| Preceded by | William Young |
| Succeeded by | Jean-François, comte de Durat |
| Governor of Madras | |
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In office 22 June 1781 – 14 June 1785 |
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| Monarch | George III |
| Preceded by | Sir Thomas Rumbold |
| Succeeded by | Sir Archibald Campbell |
| Governor of Cape Colony | |
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In office 1797–1798 |
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| Monarch | George III |
| Preceded by | Abraham Josias Sluysken |
| Succeeded by | Francis Dundas |
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14 May 1737 Lissanoure, Loughguile, Ballymoney, County Antrim Ireland |
| Died | 31 May 1806 (aged 69) Chiswick, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, KB (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806) was a British , colonial administrator and diplomat. He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's success in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled "a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets".
He was an Irishman descended from an old Scottish family, the Macartneys of Auchinleck, who had settled in 1649 at Lissanoure, in Loughguile, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, where he was born. He was the only son of George Macartney and Elizabeth Winder. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1759, he became a student of the Temple, London. Through Stephen Fox, elder brother of Charles James Fox, he was taken up by Lord Holland.
Appointed envoy extraordinary to Russia in 1764, he succeeded in negotiating with Catherine II an alliance between Great Britain and that country. He was returned in 1768 to the Irish House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Armagh Borough, in order to discharge the duties of Chief Secretary for Ireland. On resigning this office he was knighted.
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