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Amherst, William Pitt Amherst, lst Earl, Viscount Holmesdale, Baron Amherst Of Montreal

British diplomat

born January 14, 1773, Bath, Somerset, Eng.

died March 13, 1857, Knole, Kent

diplomat who, as British governor-general of India (1823–28), played a central role in the acquisition of Asian territory for the British Empire after the First Burmese War (1824–26).

Amherst inherited in 1797 the baronial title of his uncle Jeffrey Amherst. After serving as British envoy at the court of Naples (1809–11), he was sent to China (1816) to negotiate commercial matters. At the imperial court, however, Amherst declined to perform the kowtow (to strike his forehead on the ground nine times in obeisance), and his mission failed.

In India he was confronted by a demand from the ruler of Bengal to surrender the whole of eastern Bengal. That demand precipitated the First Burmese War, which Amherst brought to a conclusion with the annexation (1826) of the jungle coastal strips of Arakan and Tenasserim (both in modern Myanmar 【Burma】) and Assam (a state of modern India). He was created earl in 1826.

词条	Amherst, William Pitt Amherst, lst Earl, Viscount Holmesdale, Baron Amherst Of Montreal
释义	Amherst, William Pitt Amherst, lst Earl, Viscount Holmesdale, Baron Amherst Of Montreal British diplomat born January 14, 1773, Bath, Somerset, Eng. died March 13, 1857, Knole, Kent diplomat who, as British governor-general of India (1823–28), played a central role in the acquisition of Asian territory for the British Empire after the First Burmese War (1824–26). Amherst inherited in 1797 the baronial title of his uncle Jeffrey Amherst. After serving as British envoy at the court of Naples (1809–11), he was sent to China (1816) to negotiate commercial matters. At the imperial court, however, Amherst declined to perform the kowtow (to strike his forehead on the ground nine times in obeisance), and his mission failed. In India he was confronted by a demand from the ruler of Bengal to surrender the whole of eastern Bengal. That demand precipitated the First Burmese War, which Amherst brought to a conclusion with the annexation (1826) of the jungle coastal strips of Arakan and Tenasserim (both in modern Myanmar 【Burma】) and Assam (a state of modern India). He was created earl in 1826.
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