a breach of the peace; it is not clear if this took place. He was during this period granted the rank of lieutenant-colonel by Russia and paid a retainer of $1,000 a month. Morrison noted that despite Norris-Newman's high level of remuneration he was still dissolute, having failed to honour a large number of promissory notes. Later life Details of Norris-Newman's later life are little known as he avoided attention, partly on account of his marital issues. By 1907 Norris-Newman was working as an intelligence officer for Russia. By 1910 he was living in Tientsin where he worked for the China Critic and by 1916 was working for the Gazette in Peking. Norris-Newman's Who's who in the Far East, 1906–7 entry lists a number of decorations: "Madagascar, first class", the Order of the Dannebrog third class, the "French Medal for Valour", the Egypt Medal, the Khedive's Star, the South Africa Medal (1880) and the British South Africa Company Medal. His hobbies were noted as riding, shooting and philately and he is stated to be a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Provincial Senior Grand Warden with the freemasons. Norris-Newman's interest in philately dated from at least his time in Aliwal North and he was elected a member of the Birmingham Philatelic Society in 1896. By 1912 he had given an album of 4,000 stamps to a C. H. Meekle to be sold. Meekle passed these stamps to Charles H. Hussman of the Columbia Supply Company in the United States but no money reached Norris-Newman. Hussman claimed the album was security for a loan he had provided. Norris-Newman launched a court case to recover the stamps, or their value which he stated as $1,500. A jury in the court of in March 1912 ordered Hussman to return the album or pay Norris-Newman $750. His stamp collection was auctioned on 19 June 1913. Norris-Newman died of stomach cancer at Victoria Hospital, Tientsin in May 1920. References 1852 births 1920 deaths People from North Yorkshire British war correspondents People of the Franco-Prussian War People of the Third Carlist War People of the Anglo-Zulu War People of the Second Matabele War People of the Russo-Japanese War British colonial officials Russian Navy personnel 19th-century British journalists 20th-century British journalists