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Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Baronet, GCB, PC (Chinese: 砵甸乍; 3 October 1789 – 18 March 1856), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and colonial administrator who became the first Governor of Hong Kong. ==Early career== Henry Pottinger was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1789. He was the fifth son of Eldred Curwen Pottinger, Esq., of Mount Pottinger, County Down, and his wife Anne, who was the daughter of Robert Gordon, Esq., of Florida House in the same county. They had three daughters and eight sons.〔"(Our Portrait Gallery—No. XL. )". ''The Dublin University Magazine'' 28: 426.〕〔Walford, Edward (1857). "(Right Hon. Sir H. Pottinger, G.C.B. )". ''Hardwicke's Annual Biography for 1857''. p. 20.〕〔Urban, Sylvanus (January–June 1856). "(Obituary.—Right Hon. Sir H. Pottinger. )". ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' 45 (new series): 517.〕 Eldred Pottinger was his nephew.〔Pottinger, Henry (2 November 1846). "(Letter from Sir Henry Pottinger )". ''The Dublin University Magazine'' 28: 768.〕 Henry studied at the Belfast Academy, today known as Belfast Royal Academy. In 1804, he went to India to serve in the army and explored the lands between the Indus and Persia, travelling in disguise as a Muslim merchant and studying local languages, under the orders of Sir John Malcolm. In 1806, he joined the British East India Company and in 1809, he was a Lieutenant who fought in one of the Anglo-Mahratta wars before rising to the rank of Colonel after his dangerous 1810 expedition from Nushki (Balochistan) to Isfahan (Central Persia). It would be 100 years before another European took this route. This expedition was funded by the West-Indian Company to map and research hitherto unstudied regions of Beloochistan (Balochistan) and Persia because of concerns about India being invaded by French forces. Pottinger later became Resident Administrator of Sindh in 1820. He later held the same post in Hyderabad. In 1820, he married Susanna Maria Cooke who in 1831 gave birth to their son, William Frederick who would go on to become notorious for his run-ins with bushrangers as Inspector of Police in New South Wales in Australia. Their second son, Henry, was born on 10 June 1834 and died on 18 October 1909. He was created a baronet when he returned to England in 1839. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Pottinger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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