foreign Tientsin has suflee a loss which is all but irreparable, and which painfully affects every individual in the community as well as the body corporate The deceased gentleman had been in feeble health ever since the siege and was com-templating a journey home, to end possibly in complete retirement, when he succumbed toan attack of blood poisoning. He died on Good Friday and was followed to the grave on Easter Sunday by practically the who's. European population'ot Tientain an well as by great numbers of British officers and of natives who had known by experience either his boundless hospitality or his high professional skill, Ever since the year 1878, when he came out as colleague to his old friend Dr. John Frazer, the deceased doctor's personal history has been the history of benefic-nco and goodness in this port. He was typical Irishman, warm-hearted and generous to a fault,' wonderfully kind to Both man and beast, and eager in the pursuit of his profession: a man who spoke no scandal nor listened to it, and who could only see the beter side of his fellow creatures. A passionate lover of sport, he has left " deep mark in almost eve.y form of it practised in the Far East ho was a sound cricketer and especially excelled in the trundling of the bull, a fine cross-country rider in the times when foxes were common on our plains, a capital rac r on the flat, and a crack shot well as billiard player. The young doctor in the later seventies and" early eighties seemed to be a compendium of sport in himself, and by his pre-eminence in everything became a surf of latter. day Adinirable Crichton.
But after all, this was but the lower plane of his manifold activities, and was hover for a moment allowed to obtrude into the domain of his highest life: he was fiom the first a devotes to his profession, and was one of the greatest of that noble hand of piomecrs of the healing-art Northern China, His amiable euructer made him persona grata to the Chinese of all ranks, from the Viceroy of Chihli to the outcast dying in the streets, He was Li Hung-chang's private physician, as sell confidential friend and elviser it was at Dr. Tewin's initiative that the Viceroy tried to p-rpetuate the fine work of Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie by establishing the Imperial Medical College, and that he introduced Western practice into. the Chinese Navy and in some brunches of the Army.. He accompanied Li on Lis famous mission to Europe, and was for years on terms of the greatest intimacy with the distinguished old Chung Tang. The old satrap sent muy a great official to the doctor, but yet the chief sphere of his medical activity towards the Chinese lay in his practice among the poor; they came to him in countless numbers and got the benefit of his great skill without feo or hope of reward.
Dr. Irwin went home in 1885 and spent a well-earned holiday in taking the Fellowship of the College of Surges, Dublin: he further increased his happiness and that of Tientsin. by marrying Miss
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