SIR ROBERT HART.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9114, 13 June 1908, Page 5

SIR ROBERT HART.

ARRIVES IN LONDON

Received Jui:e 12, 9.35 p.m. LONDON, June 12. Sir Robert Hart has reached London after an absenca of fifty-four years. Sir Robert Hurt, Bart, G.C.M.G., recently resigned from the position of Director of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs. Sir Kobert is the elde-t son of Mr Henry Hart, of Portadown, County Armagh, and was born in 1835. He entered the Consular Service in China in 1854. In 1859 he resigned in order* to join the Chinese Maritime Ciutjms. He was appointed Inspector-General in ISG3, and in 1885 assumed the position of Director. He has many Chinese decorations. During the Boxer outbreak he underwent the siige in the British Legation at Peking, and has since pullished his somewhat remarkable views on the pjsition in China under the title, "These from the Land of Sinim." His acadsmic and honorary distinctions include hon. M.A. and LL.D. Queen's University, Ireland, hon. LL.D. Michigan University, Hon. Member Roya! Asiatic Society, Hon Fellow Royal Statistical Society, and Hon. Member Institut de Droit International. He has been decorated by the sovereigns of almost every European country except Russia, was given the Peacock's Feather, China, in 1885, and the brevet title of Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent, China, in 1901.