Acheson held Civil Rank of the 5th and 4th Classes, and the Order of the Chia Ho, 4th and 3 rd Classes. He was subsequently appointed foreign Co-Director of the Customs College, a post which he held till his death on the 8th December 1924. The last three years of Acheson’s service career were spent in the London Office as Non-Resident Secretary, from which he retired on the 21st January 1924. He had been promoted Commissioner on the 1st October 1915. He remained at Peking till the 31 st December 1919, serving most of his time in the Staff and Chinese secretariats, but during the last eight months of 1919 was on special duty working out the details of the staff superannuation and retirement scheme, a task in which he received much assistance from the late Mr. He was promoted Deputy Commissioner on the 1st June 1911, and on the 1st October 1914 was again transferred to Peking, this time as Assistant Staff and Private Secretary. He subsequently served at Canton for nearly two years, at the London Office for two years, at Shanghai for four and a half years, at Soochow where he was Acting Deputy Commissioner in charge of the liken collectorate, for four years, at Chunking as Acting Commissioner for two years, and a Santuao in the same capacity for three years. After graduating from Oxford in 1886, he joined the Customs Service as a 4th Assistant, B, on the 1st June 1888, and was first stationed at Peking, where he remained till the 31st October 1893 studying the language and acting as Private Secretary to the Inspector General. Guy Francis Hamilton Acheson was born on the 16th December 1863 at Gosport, England. He embodied his researches in the well-known book “Chinese Music” which was published by the Customs in 1884. Van Aalst was one of the first foreigners to make a thorough study of Chinese music. He held Civil Rank of the 3rd Class Order of the Double Dragon, 2nd division, 3rd Class Chevalier of the Order of Orange Nassau, Holland. Van Aalst served as a member of the Chinese Commission for the Liége exhibition, and it was largely due to his efforts that the Chinese pavilion on that occasion was such a success. From the 1st January to the 31st October 1905 Mr. As Commissioner he served at Samshui, Amoy, and Wuchow, and resigned on the 28th February 1914. On the 1st January 1899 he was transferred to the Postal Department and made Commissioner and Postal Secretary, a post which he held until December 1901, and after which he was retransferred to the Revenue Department. In February 1896 he was promoted to be Deputy Commissioner and made Acting Audit Secretary at Peking, to which were added in March 1897 the duties of Acting Postal Secretary. He joined the Customs Service on the 1st April 1883 as a postal clerk at Peking, and was graded as 4th Assistant, A, on the 1st August 1885. van Aalst was born on the 14th October 1858 at Namur Belgium. This reflected the interests of that cadre of officers, and is far from complete. The entries only reflect those deemed important in the story of the Customs by the (foreign) leadership of the service in 1937. Please note that entries are incomplete for all men who served beyond about 1937. This list consolidates information on CMS careers found in the footnotes of the seven-volume series Documents illustrative of the Origin, Development, and Activities of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service (Shanghai, 1937 – 1940).
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