Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet

Quaker, sinologist (1873–1944).

Born October 20th, 1873 in Darlington.

Died January 8th, 1944 at 70 years old in Beijing.

Occupations
diarist, historian, linguist

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. Langston Hughes