# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sir-edmund-backhouse-2nd-baronet
# Generated: 2026-08-16T00:32:13.438Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sir-edmund-backhouse-2nd-baronet"
name: "Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet"
slug: "sir-edmund-backhouse-2nd-baronet"
description: "Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet was a British oriental scholar, Sinologist, and linguist whose books exerted a powerful influence on the Western view of the last decades of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). Since his death, however, it has been established that the major source of his China Under the Empress Dowager, Diary of His Excellency Ching Shan, is a forgery, most likely by Backhouse himself."
tagline: "Quaker, sinologist (1873–1944)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Sir_Edmund_Trelawny_Backhouse.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1873-10-20"
deathDate: "1944-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.493666666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AC%AC%E4%BA%8C%E4%BB%A3%E5%BE%9E%E7%94%B7%E7%88%B5%E5%9F%83%E5%BE%B7%E8%92%99%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E6%81%AA%E6%80%9D%E7%88%B5%E5%A3%AB"
    title: "第二代從男爵埃德蒙·巴恪思爵士"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "سير ادموند باكخوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Backhouse"
    title: "Edmund Backhouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Backhouse%2C_2nd_Baronet"
    title: "Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Backhouse"
    title: "Edmund Backhouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edmund_Backhouse%2C_Baronet_na_biyu"
    title: "Sir Edmund Backhouse, Baronet na biyu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Backhouse"
    title: "Edmund Backhouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Backhouse"
    title: "Edmund Backhouse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Backhouse%2C_T%C3%B2ng_Nam_t%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Bc_th%E1%BB%A9_2"
    title: "Edmund Backhouse, Tòng Nam tước thứ 2"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724298"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump