Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-24

and Geneva, so that he became a proficient
lnguist. an accomplishment which without
doubt had much to do in shaping his
successful diplomatic career. Although
it was originally intended that he should
qualify for the British Indian army serv-
ice, before his technical course was COM
plete his training was diverted to the law,
and he began that study at the Inner Tenn
pie in London, and was admitted to the
bar in 1852 Ten years later he was ten
dered and accepted a lucrative legal ap-
pointment at that emporium of the east,
Hong Kong, and in 1860 he appointed
attorney general of the colony, a position
of much influence. and one closely identifying
him with the government policies. While
engaged in this service he prepared and pub
lished '"rhe Code of Civil Procedure" rec
ognized as one of the most complete works
of it's kind, and still in force in the colony.
For his valuable services at Hong Hong
Mr.. Pauncefote knighted by Queen
Victoria upon his return to England
1872 Sir Julian was made chief justice of
the Leeward Islands, where he had a most
successful administration, reforming the
colonial code and adding to the material
prosperity of the islands
With Foreign Office.
Upon his return to England his connec-
tion with the foreign Office began, he being
appointed legal assistant under secretary
of state at the colonial office, and very soon
afterward assuming a similar post specially
created for him in the foreign office direct
ly. He discharged the onerous duties of
that office in the most creditabIe manner
from 1882 until 1889. He the favOrite
of both Beaconsfeld and Gladstone The
former caused to be bestowed upon him the
order of the Commander of the Bath, and
also Knight Commander of st. Michael and
st. George Mr.. Gladstone, for his part,
made him permanent under secretary of
state, and the queen, at his instance, con-
ferred upon Sir Julian in 1856 the Grand
Cross of the Order of ST Michael and St.
George She also advanced him in the Or
der of the Bath to grand commander His
last advanceme Mt in rank occurred thc year
of the peace conference at The Hague when
he was made peer under the title Uf Lord
Pauncefote of Preston, in reward for the
exceedingly valuable services he had rem
dered at his post in Washington. In 1858 he
married to Miss Selma Fitzgerald
daughter of Maj. William Cubitt of Catfeld
Norfolk, a distinguished army officer Lord
Pauncefote had four daughters, but no son,
so his title dies with him. OF the daugh-
ters the Right Honorable Maud is the
eldest Sybii the second daughter Audrey
the third and Lillian the youngest, last year
married to the Honorable Robert Bromley,
then an attache to the embassy.
Here in Washington.
Lord Pauncefote came to Washington in
1889, and his service here has been a rec
ord of successes in the diplomatic field.
He has it also to his credit that he
achieved these without ir the least taking
away from the credit of the American Sec
retares of State against whom he was
matched in the game of diplomacy. The
Dering negotiations already referred
TO were among his earliest works. In fact,
it was his familiarity with that difficult
subject that led to his selection by the for
eign office for the post at Washington.
Then followed the delicate and tedious ne
mo IN
the drafting of a general arbitration treaty
between the United States and Great Bri-
tain. The negotiators succeeded in their
task, which had been pronounced impos-
sible of accomplishment, though the United
States Senate afterward allowed it to perish
without ratification. That convention was
the forerunner of the great work accom-
plished at The Hague, and 1t may be said
that it embodied some of the most i'm
rortant principles of the great general
convention regulating arbitration after
ward framed by The Hague conference.
Then came a number of reciprocity treaties
and arrangements involving vast amount
of study and work, all Of which were per-
fected as far as the executive branch of
our government could cooperate with Lord
Pauncefote-
His Greatest Accomplishment.
Soon after Secretary Hay assumed office,
Lord Pauncefote began the task which he
himself regarded as the greatest accom-
plisbne mt of his busy life, namely, to for
ever set at rest the questions growing out
| of the old Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which at
| une xpected intervals arose to vex the two
| governments and even to threaten the
| PEACE. The first treaty which was intended
| to accomplish that object and permit of
| the obstruction by the United States of
| an list Smian canal was so amended by the
| United States Senate as TO be hopelessIy in
jused, and it was rejected by the British
| govern lms Mt. That event, however did not
discourage Lord Pauncefote, and after the
| lapse of a few months he entered with en-
ergy again upon new negotiations, the re-
| suit CT which was the framing OF the
fea,ous Hay-Pauncefote treaty recently
ratified.