費正清：人生的悠長假期

George B. Glover (吉羅福) was an American who served as a diplomat and also a commissioner in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service (大清國海關稅務司) during the late nineteenth century. To Mahjong historians, he is well known for what he donated to the American Museum of Natural History in 1875 ── the first ever recorded Mahjong set in history. According to the American Numismatic Society, his collection of "Far Eastern" numismatic items was also donated to the museum after his death by his widow, Lucy H. Glover.

The following is quoted from Fairbank, J.K., Bruner, K.F., and Matheson, E.M. (ed.), The I. G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975, p.690:

George B. Glover had gone on leave from 1885 to 1887 and did not return to the Customs Service.

From Barney Genealogical Record, Nantucket Historical Association:

     George B. Glover was also known as George H. The "H" was crossed out and "B" written in. He was born on 8 July 1827. He married Lucy Happer, daughter of Andrew Happer, in 1870 at China. George B. Glover died on 4 October 1885 at age 58.