Macdonald, Sir Claude M., British Minister at Peking; served in the army in Egypt in 1882 and 1884, as a diplomatist in Zanzibar in 1887, and on the coast of Africa as commissioner in 1888; was sent to Peking in 1896; (b. 1852).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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