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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1931.

SIR CHARLES ELIOT.

DEATH OCCURS ON BOARD SHIP.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

ages and an acquaintance with 27 altogether. In 1904 hè resigned his post and returned to. England owing to a disagreement with the authorities over the polley he had adopted, which as a matter of fact was also pursued by his successor,

As University Chancellor.

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From UNITED KINGDOM vla are hereby noted that their cargo will be discharged into Ilolt's Whart Kowloon, where it will lie at Con slated's risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godowe on and after 10th March, 1931.

remain aboard rather than go tonorary or Sir William Hor. of call to which the option extenda.

was due to heart trouble.

Sir Charles passed through Hongkong on March by the Hakone Maru. He was not in good health then, having barely recovered from an attack of in- fluenza.

During his brief stay he renewed contact with a number of

In 1905, Sir Charles accepted; the Vice-Chancellorahip of Shof- Singapore, Mar. 10. field University, (1906) and while The death has occurred at sen there (1900) he was a member of on Elec- of Sir Charles Ellot, K.C.M.G.the Royal Commission former Vice-Chancellor of Hong-

toral systems, kong University and more recently

It was in 1912 that Sir Charles British Ambassador to Japan.

Eliot came to Hongkong as Vice- Bir Charlos diad aboard the Chancellor of the University hore, steamer Hakone Maru,

Optional cargo will not be landed between then newly catablished. For his

unless notice has been given Penang and Colombo. He was torvices to the Incal Institution, hero. when the ship arrived in Singa-Sir Charles In 1924 was given the prior to steamer's arrival but carried degree of LL.D. and the on from port to port to the final port pore on Friday, but preferred to

All broken, chafed, and damaged bospital. It is believed that deathmell, then said of him: Sir Charles

Prouds are to be left in the Godowns, Elipt is not merely great scholar where they will be examined on any and a great linguist. He is also Tuesdays and Fridays between the eminent in the mysterious deld of hours of -10,46 a.m. and noon within Marine Biology. His verentility the free storage period. is as astonishing na tho range No claims will be admitted after, and depth of his knowledge in the Goods have left the steam's prodigious. Sir Charles Eliot's Godown, and all Goods remaining un- 23rd March mere acceptance of the frat Vice-delivered after the Chancellorship of this University, will be subect to rent was a guarantee to the world that the Government of Hongkong Sir Charles (Norton Edgcumbe) were in earnest. The eyes of the Ellot was born in 1862, eldest son learned world were turned to the of the late Rev. Edward Ellot new horn University. It la early B.C.L. He was educated at Chelyet

vet to write the hlatory of the tenham and Balliol College, Ox- University. When it comes to be ford, and had a distinguished written.

the debt which the Un- scholastic caroor. Even in his veraity owes to Sir Charles Ellot school days at Cheltenham s will stand out, for all to see. That kifta were phenomenal. Told to the University of Hongkong re- translate a portion of Vergil on cognize this debt is evident from one occasion,

confer their he run rapidly their decision to through it, but admitted that he honorary degree upon him-a dori- had not prepared it.

Asked what slon which was como to in 1910. nuthority he had for his reading | (Applause), of a passage, he at once cited twa Repold's Newspaper said of parallels from Horace, one from [kim:-"There is more in the ap- Juvenal and another from Cicero pointment of Sir Charles Ellot to before the master could stop him.be Principal of Hongkong Uni-

friends.

ant and showed the promise, later Charles is only in the forties, but

All Claims against the Steamor must be presented to the andersigned on or before the 6th April 11, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents,

Hongkong 16th March, 1931.

a day or two after the assassinn- tion of Stambuloff.

Ong of Sir Charles' experiences

was to have in Hongkont

his medals, including the Order of St. Michael and St. George, the Order of the Bath and the Silver Jubiles Medal. stolen from him by bur glars, along with his watch and gold pin.

Siberia and Japan.

Commls-

Sir Charles never married and was and to share with Sir George the only unmarried member of the Graham the distinction of boing British Diplomatic Service to at

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At Oxford he was equally brill-versity than meets the eye. Sir From Hongkong Sir Charles fulfilled, of becoming a Unguist of he. has a record of distinction went in 1918 as High more than ordinary capacity. In which it would be hard to beat aloner to Siberia, in the period of 1881 he was Hertford scholar, and at his age. He is one of the most Allied intervention after the Rus- alan revolution. In 1919 he be- in 1883 won the Boden prize for rem

remarkable of Oxford's living

tamo British Ambassador to Sanscrit. In the same year he fons. The son of simple coun won the Ireland scholarship and try parson, he owes everything

He retired in 1928. Japan. in the following year took the his own abilities. At the 'Varsity According to Japanese reports Craven and Syrlac prizes. In 1886 carried everything before she sold all his bucks to Tokyo Im- he was Derby Scholar, received He went into the Diplomatic Serperial University for Y150,000, his B.A. degree and a fellowship vice, and was finally appointed the collection including a number of Trinity College, Oxford.

High Commissioner of British of valuable old Indian Buddhist other Oriental East Africa. He, however,

inscriptions and put Diplomatic Service.

works. his foot down

sharply against the From Oxford, Sir Charles join-easy way the Tory Government ed, in 1886, the Diplomatie Ser-were granting large tracts of land vice, and began as Third Secreto British aristocrats, and no these tary in the Embassy in St. Peters gentlemen had been particularly burg. In three months he got a favoured by those in authority, he special allowance for knowledge resigned rather than he a party in the rank of Ambassador. Re- of Russian. In 1892 ho was to it. Now comes his reward, and turning home in 1926, he came transferred to Tangier and in three it does the prosent Government back to Japan and was on his way months received an allowance for honour that they have remember home again.

of

From the wealth of his experi Arabic. In 1893 heed Sir Charles." knowledge

to

wrote several and Constantinople went inter qualified in

parts of the ence Sir Charles

books-a Finnish grammar (1890), Turkish. world which Sir Charles had not Turkey in Europe (1900), The In 1896 and 1897 he was for visited either as a diplomatist or East Africa Protectorate (1905), time Charge d'Affaires at Sofia as 11 traveller. He wandered Letters from the Far East (1907) and Belgrade respectively, and through India and Tibet, crossed Hinduism and Buddhism-a during the Greco-Turkish War his Central Asia into China, explored ma

manumental work in three Greek the Pamirs, traversed the wholt volumes (1921). He knowledge of modern proved of great value to him. length of the Nile, from Uganda hobby of Marine Biology and In 1898 Sir Charles became to Cairo, and in his carlier days wrote many papers upon this sub- Secretary to the British Embassy toured the West Indien and South

ject. in Washington and in 1800 went America where he learnt Spanish. as British High Commissioner to He spoke Tahition" and wrote Samoa. From 1900 to 1904 ha Finnish grammar.

Sir Charles was the recipient of was Commissioner and Comman-

carry & qualfled surgeon. Some stirring experiences foll many honours. He was an M.A., der-in-Chief of Britials Eust

to his. lot. Thus he was

at D. Litt. (Hon. Oxford). LL.D. Africa, and Agent and Consul Constantinople throughout the Hon. Edinburgh and Hongkong), General at Zanzibar. Ile ruled Armenian massacres when 5,000 D.C.L. (Hon. Durham) and Hon. there over a region, six times or 6,000 people were slaughtered Fellow of Trinity College (0x- the size of the British Isles. In the streets, and when he was ford). He was made Commander Here he studied the native lan-at Tangier an Englishman

Was of the

Bath in 1898 and Was guages, notably Swahili, and murdered by the Moors and he knighted in 1000, receiving the collaborated in writing a grammar had to threaten to bombard the K.C.M.G. He became Privy of Masai. At that period he was town, if they did not give up the Councillor in 1919 and in 1923 credited with speaking 23 langu-murderer. He reached Bulgaria was raised to the G.C.M.G.

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