whom, although Anglican himself, he baptised in different denominations to avoid charges of prejudice. Quong Tart and his family lived in his mansion, 'Gallop House', in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield, while his four daughters attended the nearby Presbyterian Ladies' College at Croydon, the first Asian students to attend the school. He was well known as a uniquely Victorian character, being a Chinese Australian who adopted the dress and manners of an English gentleman, all while performing Scottish songs on his bagpipe. He is distinguished as the first Chinese person in Australia to be initiated into the Society of Freemasons. Quong Tart was "as well known as the Governor himself" and "quite as popular among all classes" in NSW. Romanised name Born in Duanfen (), “Quong Tart” is a romanization that reflects the local Taishanese dialect (a Yue Chinese dialect, related to Cantonese). In this dialect, his full name 梅光達 would be romanized Moy Quong Tart (cf. Cantonese Jyutping Mui4 Gwong1 Daat6). In Mandarin Chinese the characters are pronounced quite differently and would be written in Hanyu Pinyin as Mei Guangda. During his life, he was referred to by what non-Chinese Australians assumed was his surname—"Quong Tart", but was in actuality his given name, as a result of others not knowing that the surname goes first in Chinese names: "My lady friends will thus be shocked to hear that for all these years they have been calling the admirable Quong Tart by his Christian name. What should they have called him? That is the question. In full, the appellation by which he would have been known in China appears to be Moy Quong Tart …" The Daily Telegraph, 12 May 1888, p.5. The name Mei Quong Tart is thus a recent Australianism combining the historic Taishanese-based Romanisation (Quong Tart) with the surname in the now prevalent Mandarin pinyin, 'Mei.' Death On 19 August 1902, Quong Tart was brutally bashed with an iron bar and robbed of a few pounds at his office in the Queen Victoria Building, a crime that shocked Sydney. The attacker, Frederick Duggan, described as a "dim-witted thug", was jailed for 12 years, a light sentence for a crime that police believed was a simple robbery gone wrong. After the attack Quong Tart never fully recovered, and he died from pleurisy at his Ashfield home 11 months later, on 26 July 1903, aged 53. His funeral, held