第二次鸦片战争期间的英国对华交涉全权代表的称谓在各种文献中的表述可以说是杂陈百出。时人两广总督叶名琛呼其为“英酋额尔金”(贾桢等《咸丰朝筹办夷务始末》(二),中华书局1979年版,第610页);而“英酋额尔金”在其后的《中英天津条约》中文本中的全称则是“大英国特简世袭 The expression of English appeals to China by the British during the Second Opium War in various documents can be said to be mixed. Ye Guangchen, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi at that time, called it “Elgin Elgin” (Jiazhen et al., “The Xianfeng Chaebology” (Zhonghua Publishing House, No. 2, Zhonghua Book Company, 1979, p. 610) Subsequent “Sino-British Tianjin Treaty” in the full text of the Chinese version is "the Great British special raiders