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Bland (JOHN OTWAY PERCY an English)

JOHN OTWAY PERCY, an English journalist and author; born in Whiteabbey, County Antrim, Ireland, Nov. 15, 1863. He studied in Switzerland and at Trinity College, Dublin. He was secretary of Sir Robert Hart, when the nection with the Chinese customs finances (1883-1885), and in 1906 became the replatter was in China on his work in conresentative in China of the British and Chinese Corporation. He was Chinese correspondent of the London "Times" from 1897 to 1910. His knowledge of Chinese life and character was extensive and most common is the blanching used profound. He lectured widely on the to exclude the light from seakale, rhubarb, and some other culinary vegetables, in which the green color is to be avoided.