Howqua [SEP] date of death
Howqua
Wu Bingjian ()(17694 September 1843), better known in the West as Howqua, was the most important of the hong merchants in the Thirteen Factories, head of the "E-wo hong" and leader of the Canton Cohong. He was once the richest man in the world.
Biography.
A Hokkien by his paternal ancestry with ancestry from Quanzhou, Wu was known to the West as "Howqua", as was his father, Wu Guorong, the founder of the family business or
- October 6 – Isaac Brock, British general, administrator (d. 1812)
- December 13 – James Scarlett Abinger, English judge (d. 1844)
- December 26 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer, poet (d. 1860)
- "date unknown"
- James Dadford, English canal engineer
- John Bellingham, assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (d. 1812)
- Howqua, Chinese merchant (d. 1843)
- "probable"
- John Henry Colclough, Irish revolutionary