Thomas Chaye Beale

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Not to be confused with Thomas Beale.

Thomas Chaye Beale was a Scottish merchant operating in the Far East during the 19th century.

Biography

Thomas Chaye was a cousin of opium trader and merchant Daniel Beale and his brother Thomas Beale.^[1] As early as 1826 he was a partner in the trading firm of Magniac & Co. in Canton, China. In the 1830s he left Magniacs and operated on his own until 1845 when he established the Shanghai based agency house of Dent, Beale & Co. with Lancelot Dent. By 1851 Beale was Portuguese Consul and Dutch Vice Counsel in the city.^[2]

References

↑ "Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau". Retrieved May 31, 2011.
↑ Cranmer-Byng J.L. and Ride, Lindsay T., Journal of Occurrences at Canton 1839 [sic] in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch; Vol. 4 (1964) p. 37

v t e Foreign Trade in Imperial China

Topics	Canton System Cohong East India Company James Flint Old China Trade Thirteen Factories

Chinese Hongs	Ewo Yong Howqua

Foreign Hongs	Dent & Co. Lancelot Dent Dodwell & Co. Gibb, Livingston & Co. Augustine Heard & Co. Augustine Heard Jardine, Matheson & Co. William Jardine James Matheson John Abel Smith Magniac & Co. Daniel Beale Thomas Beale Thomas Chaye Beale Hollingworth Magniac Russell & Company Robert Bennet Forbes John Cleve Green Abiel Abbot Low William Henry Low Samuel Russell Russell Sturgis Shewan, Tomes & Co. Robert Shewan David Sassoon & Co. David Sassoon

Chinese Officials	Lin Zexu

Key Locations	Amoy Canton Foochow Hong Kong Macau Shanghai

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