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Fleming D. Cheshire
Fleming Duncan Cheshire (March 4, 1849 – June 13, 1922), also known as Fleming D. Cheshire, was an American businessman, foreign language interpreter and Consul-General of the United States to China. As the Chinese Secretary to legation during the Boxer Rebellion, Cheshire and other western diplomatic legations were under siege in Beijing until rescued by the China Relief Expedition.
In the rebellion's aftermath, Cheshire was instrumental in the adoption of America's first educational exchange program with China〔U.S.- China Educational Exchange: State, Society, and Intercultural Relations, 1905-1950 by Hongshan Li, Rutgers University Press, 2008 p. 55〕 and oversaw the commencement of trade relations between the two nations.〔San Francisco Call, Volume 98, Number 154, 1 November 1905〕 Fleming D. Cheshire served in the Consular Service of the United States for 38 years. He is the grand-uncle of jazz musician Andrew Cheshire.
== Early life and career ==
Fleming Duncan Cheshire was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jonas Cheshire, a ferry boat captain and later a Brooklyn court officer and Maria (née Havens), a homemaker. He was named after Fleming Duncan, his father's friend and partner in the ferry boat business. Attending school at both public and private institutions, Cheshire completed his academic education in 1869. In the same year, he entered into the mercantile business in China working for Russell and Co. and Augustine Heard & Co. In 1870 he was sent by Augustine Heard and Co. to Peking to study Chinese.〔Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries.L.R. Hamersly, 1909 p.333〕 Cheshire eventually became fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese, as well as other dialects. While learning Mandarin in Peking (Bejiing) he shaved his head, wore a pigtail, and dressed in traditional Chinese clothing. Cheshire thought that his facility with Chinese would not have been possible if he hadn't lived among the Chinese and adopted their way of life.〔The Deseret Weekly, Volume 50, 1895〕 He was appointed acting interpreter to the American consulate at Fuzhou in 1877 and was in charge of the consulate at Fuzhou in 1878-1879 and at Canton in 1879-1880. In 1882, Cheshire was appointed consulate-general in Shanghai and was acting interpreter to the American legation at Peking between 1884 and 1899.
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