Rt Hon. Sir Earl George Macartney PC KB
(1737-1806)

Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath, Member of Parliament (1768-1769), Chief Secretary for Ireland (1768-1772), Member of Parliament (1774-1776), Governor of the Caribbean Islands (1776-1784), Member of Parliament (1780-1781), Governor of Madras (1784-1785), Ambassador Extraordinary to China (1792-1794), Privy Counsellor (from 1792), Viscount Macartney (1792-1806), 1st Earl Macartney (from 1794), 1st Baron Macartney (1795-1806), and Governor of the Cape of Good Hope (1796-1798)