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Who's Who in the Far East/BOURNE, Frederick Samuel Augustus

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3629594Who's Who in the Far East — BOURNE, Frederick Samuel Augustus

BOURNE, Frederick Samuel Augustus (SHANGHAI), Assistant Judge of H.B.M. Supreme Court for China and Corea, and H.M. Consul, Shanghai; b. Oct. 3,1854, s. of late Rev. S. W. Bourne, B.A., Queens' College, Cambridge, Rector of Winfarthing, Norfolk, and Mary Caroline, d. of late Henry Cassin, M.D.; m. 1889, Isabel Alice, y. d. of the Rev. John Chalmers, LL.D. Educ.: St. Edmund's School, Canterbury. Clerk, War Office, 1873; China Consular Service, 1876; employed on special service, 1885-86, exploring country bordering on Tonkin; received the thanks of the President of the United States for services rendered at Chung-king in 1886; Bar, Lincoln's Inn, 1800; H.M. Yice-eor.sul, Canton, 1893; Consul in charge of the Blackburn Commercial Mission, 1896-97,. subsequently appointed Assistant Judge H. B. M. Supreme Court for China and Corea, and Judge of High Court at Wei-hai-wei, which position.still holds. Address: Shanghai, China; Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, England.