George Baldwin (diplomat)
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George Baldwin adalah seorang saudagar, penulis, dan diplomat Britania dari akhir abad ke-18 dan awal abad ke-19 yang kariernya terutama berbasis di Mesir, di mana dia membangun hubungan dagang yang berharga bagi Perusahaan Hindia Timur Britania dan melakukan negosiasi langsung dengan gubernur Utsmaniyah. Meskipun ada peringatan berulang-ulang mengenai pentingnya Mesir berhubungan dengan India Britania, nasihatnya diabaikan dan oleh karena itu, ketika Napoleon Bonaparte menyerbu Mesir pada tahun 1798, Britania merasa enggan untuk meresponnya secara langsung.
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George Baldwin was a British merchant, writer and diplomat of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries whose career was principally based in Egypt, where he established valuable trade links for the East India Company and negotiated directly with the Ottoman governors. Despite repeated warnings of the importance of Egypt to links with British India, his advice was ignored and thus when Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798 the British were ill-placed to respond directly. In 1801 he assisted the British counter-invasion of Egypt and later returned to Britain with his wife Jane Maltass, a famous society beauty. Although a highly successful merchant and diplomat, Baldwin found himself a subject of ridicule on his return to Britain for his belief in the healing power of magnets, th
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George Baldwin (diplomat)
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George Baldwin (diplomat)
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George Baldwin
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George Baldwin
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Earl's Court, London
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May 1744
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Lithograph of George Baldwin by Joseph Bouvier
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Jane Maltass
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George Baldwin was a British merchant, writer and diplomat of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries whose career was principally based in Egypt, where he established valuable trade links for the East India Company and negotiated directly with the Ottoman governors. Despite repeated warnings of the importance of Egypt to links with British India, his advice was ignored and thus when Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798 the British were ill-placed to respond directly. In 1801 he assisted the British counter-invasion of Egypt and later returned to Britain with his wife Jane Maltass, a famous society beauty. Although a highly successful merchant and diplomat, Baldwin found himself a subject of ridicule on his return to Britain for his belief in the healing power of magnets, then widely considered a pseudoscience. He retired to Earl's Court in London and died there in 1826.
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George Baldwin adalah seorang saudagar, penulis, dan diplomat Britania dari akhir abad ke-18 dan awal abad ke-19 yang kariernya terutama berbasis di Mesir, di mana dia membangun hubungan dagang yang berharga bagi Perusahaan Hindia Timur Britania dan melakukan negosiasi langsung dengan gubernur Utsmaniyah. Meskipun ada peringatan berulang-ulang mengenai pentingnya Mesir berhubungan dengan India Britania, nasihatnya diabaikan dan oleh karena itu, ketika Napoleon Bonaparte menyerbu Mesir pada tahun 1798, Britania merasa enggan untuk meresponnya secara langsung.
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