A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Chu Kuei
461 Chu Kuei 朱珪 (T. 石君. H. 南厓). A.D. 1781-1807. A native of Ta-hsing in Chihli, who was the youngest of four brothers, another of whom, Chu Yun, also became celebrated as a scholar and official. He graduated as chin shih in 1748; and in 1775, when Treasurer of Shansi, he was denounced for studying all day and recalled to be tutor to the young prince who subsequently reigned under the style of Chia Ch'ing. In 1790 he became Governor of Anhui; and five years later, while acting as Viceroy at Canton, he is said to have "turned back an English tribute-mission." What he appears really to have done was to return the gifts which the English mission had given to the former Viceroy and Hoppo, his action in which matter was approved by the venerable Emperor Ch'ien Lung only five days before his abdication. On the death of the Emperor Ch'ien Lung he became one of Chia Ch'ing's chief advisers, and in 1805 was made Grand Secretary. He was exemplary in all his family duties, and a stranger to corruption in every form. For the last forty years of his life, subsequent to the death of his wife, he lived alone, not even taking a concubine. Author of the 知不 足齋詩文集, a collection of poems and essays to which the Emperor prefixed some stanzas. Canonised as 文正, and admitted into the Temple of Worthies.