Legacy Lay Road, beside Yangtzepoo Creek in old Shanghai's Hongkew district (although now part of Yangpu), was named for Lay. Following the Communist conquest of Shanghai in 1949, however, it was renamed Lanzhou Road. Notes Bibliography Jack J. Gerson. Horatio Nelson Lay and Sino-British relations, 1854-1864. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. A.C. Hyde Lay. Four Generations in China, Japan and Korea. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1952. Jonathan Spence. Western Advisers in China: To change China. London: Penguin, 1980. Britannica.com: Lay-Osborn flotilla People from Forest Hill, London British diplomats in China 1832 births 1898 deaths British expatriates in China British people of the Second Opium War Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan