Horatio Nelson Lay and Sino-British Relations, 1854-1864 (Harvard East Asian Monographs, No. 47)

ix, 341 pp. "This study is an extensive abridgement of the authors doctoral dissertation, 'Horatio Nelson Lay: His Role in British Relations With China, 1849-1865.'" "Horatio Nelson Lay (23 January 1832 - 4 May 1898, Forest Hill, Kent, England)[1] was a British diplomat, noted for his role in the ill-fated "Lay-Osborn Flotilla" during the Taiping Rebellion."