Sir George Macartney was the British consul-general in Kashgar at the end of the 19th century. He was succeeded by Percy T. Etherton. Macartney arrived in Xinjiang in 1890 as an interpreter for the Younghusband expedition. He remained there until 1918. Macartney first proposed the Macartney-MacDonald Line as the boundary between China and India in Aksai Chin.
- Occupation
- explorer, diplomat
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- January 19, 1867
- Died
- May 19, 1945
