Dr. H. A. Giles attained to such! eminent distinction during his thirty Ave years' tenure of the Professorship of Chinese at Cambridge University that it is dimeult for the present generation to think of him either as Vice-Consul in Shanghai in 1883 or to appreciate the fact that, when he retired. from H.B.M's " Consular /Service ten years later, he was Consul at Ningpo. His death wil be sincerely mourned in China, His scholar. ship and deep learning have played 'a most important part in the cement ing of Sino-British relationships and he must be accounted among the select group of Englishmen who have notably contributed to the better derstanding of the culture and tradi-! Hons of this great country. He received high recognition from universi-lee in England, France and America he was a pro life writer on Chinese Uterature and he communicated his love of Oriental affairs to his family of whom his son Lancelot died last year and another son Lionel, is now a distinguished orientalist "at_ the British Museum. "His career affords yet another disproof of the doctrine that Jong residence in the East prev cludes vigorous activity on return to the Homeland. Dr. Giles retired, at the age of 48, after 26 years in China. He had already contributed a Chinese-English Dictionary to the study of his favourite subject, but his outturn of writing, apart altogether: from the activities which carried him to the highest post in the University, covered a wide field for a period of 35 years after leaving this country. The exponents of the "too old forty" doctrine might carefully note
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