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others most eminently qualified to act as secretary, 

 for not only was he a most capable and efficient 

 official, but, having been attached to the Halifax Com- 

 mission in 1875, and Secretary and Protocolist to it 

 again in 1877, he was especially familiar with all the 

 intricacies of the Fishery question. What he didn't 

 know about it from every point of view was not 

 worth knowing. At this time he was Superinten- 

 dent of the Treaty Department of the Foreign Office, 

 a post his father had for many years held before him, 

 and which in after years fell to my lot. He was 

 always a staunch and valued friend of mine, and had 

 frequently promised to do his best to have me asso- 

 ciated with him when it seemed probable that a 

 special Mission would go to the ** States " in con- 

 nection with this vexed question — a promise which 

 he faithfully and loyally fulfilled. He was at that 

 time a C.M.G. In 1888, on Mr. Chamberlain's 

 recommendation, he was made a K.C.M.G., a dis- 

 tinction he greatly coveted. In 1902 he was made 

 a C.B., and in 1903 a K.C.B. He had rendered 

 invaluable services to His Majesty's Government, 

 notably in connection with Copyright and the Sugar 

 questions, and his all too early death in November 

 1908 at Berlin, the result of a chill, just as he had, 

 as the British Delegate, attached his signature to the 



