SIR CHENTUNG LIANG CHENG Came to the US at age 12 in 1875 with the last Chinese Educational Mission group. He left the United States in 1881 when the Mission was recalled. Arrived in Tientsin in the fall of 1881 and was told to enter the naval school there. He felt it was useless and received permission to go home until the next spring. Went to Nanking in the spring of 1882, his elder brother being the Secretary of the Treasury of that province. August 1886: was private secretary to the Chinese minister in Washington DC He was the speaker at the 1903 Commencement at Phillips Academy (see “Youth from Every Quarter” by Allis) Was knighted as an Honorary Knight Commander of Michael and George at Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897- first Chinese to be knighted First Secretary to Prince Chun Chinese Minister to US 1903-1907 Chinese Minister to Berlin 1907 – ? In 1909 he became an Honorary Knight Commander of the Victorian Order while in London as a member of the Chinese Privy Council and of a Chinese Naval Commission in England.
