IX (Holy See). 1886: Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Michigan. 1888: Grand Cross of the Order of Christ (Portugal). 1889: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (Great Britain; KCMG: 1882; CMG: 1879) 1889: Ancestral rank of the First Class of the First order for three generations (China). 1893: Baronet of Kilmoriarty in the County of Armagh. 1894: Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (Sweden). 1897: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands). 1900: First Class of the Order of the Crown (Prussia). 1901: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent (China) 1906: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Italy; Grand Officer: 1884). 1906: First Class of the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan). 1906: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (Belgium; Grand Officer: 1893; Commander: 1869) 1907: First Class of the Order of St Anna (Russia). 1907: Grand Cross of the Order of the Dragon of Annam (France). 1907: Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (Norway). Arms See also History of foreign relations of China Ernest Mason Satow, who met Hart many times while he was British Minister in China, 1900–1906. (See Satow's diary). Notes References and further reading Bell, S. Hart of Lisburn. Lisburn Historical Press, 1985. Bickers, Robert. "Revisiting the Chinese maritime customs service, 1854–1950." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 36.2 (2008): 221–226. Bickers, Robert. "Purloined Letters: History and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service." Modern Asian Studies 40.3 (2006): 691–723. online Bredon, Juliet. Sir Robert Hart: The Romance of a Great Career (1st ed.). London: Hutchinson & Co., 1909. Bredon, Juliet. Sir Robert Hart: The Romance of a Great Career (2nd ed.). London: Hutchinson & Co., 1910. Broomhall A. J., Hudson Taylor & China's Open Century Volume Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives; Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982. Brunero, Donna Maree. Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854–1949 (Routledge, 2006). Chang, Jung. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Vintage Books, 2014. Chang, Chihyun. "Sir Robert Hart and the Writing of Modern Chinese History." International Journal of Asian Studies 17.2 (2020): 109–126. Drew, Edward B. "Sir Robert Hart and His Life Work in China." The Journal of Race Development (1913): 1–33 online. Eberhard-Bréard, Andrea. "Robert Hart and China's statistical revolution." Modern Asian Studies 40.3 (2006): 605–629. online Horowitz,