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AN EASTERN CALLING (REVISED & EXPANDED ED.)

GEORGE WINDSOR EARL AND A VISION OF EMPRE

Ranald Noel-Paton

ISBN 978-1-85398-207-1

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Publication: 7 NOVEMBER 2024
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ISBN: 9781853982071
Price: £35

Binding: Hardback
Format: 234 x 156 mm

Extent: 288
Illustrated: Illustrated throughout

Thema: DNB Biography
Previous edition: 9781853981869 (2018)

George Windsor Earl (1813-1865) was one of that great band
of young British men who adventured far to the east in the
early 19th century to forge careers, make fortunes and help
build the empire. At the age of sixteen he sailed for Western
Australia to become one of the early settlers at the Swan
River (Perth). There soon followed four years of sailing,
including captaining a trading schooner in the largely
uncharted waters of the East. Returning to London, his widely
acclaimed book, The Eastern Seas, appeared in 1837. Earl

sailed back to the East in 1838 as a member of the expedition
Ranald Noel-Paton was born in Bombay in 1938. Growing up in that founded and manned a new naval station and settlement
Scotland and England after the War, he was educated at Rugby School at Port Essington in Northern Australia. Earl was largely self-
and McGill University. Ranald spent 21 years in the airline industry and educated and mastered a range of languages which included
served overseas in West Africa and the Asia Pacific region; in Hong Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Malay and various local
Kong as General Manager Far East for British Caledonian airways. He dialects. He was an imperialist in the tradition of his hero, Sir
returned to the UK in 1986 to be Group Managing director of John Stamford Raffles and his scholarly interests were legion. He
Menzies PLC. In 1991, he was awarded an Honorary doctorate by published numerous works encompassing navigation,
Napier University in Edinburgh. He and his wife have been married for hydrology, agriculture, commerce, geography, archaeology
more than 50 years and they now live in Scotland. and ethnography. Earl later joined the government service in
Singapore and filled the last part of his life there and in the
Ranald Noel-Paton is a direct descendant of George Windsor Earl. Straits Settlements as law agent, journalist, advocate,
magistrate and Assistant Resident Councillor. Finally, broken
by tropical diseases, this eternally optimistic, adventurous
and remarkable man died in Penang in 1865 at the age of 52.
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