Fort San Domingo: Address by Giles Pickford

Illustrations for Address by Giles Pickford

These photographs, along with hundreds of others covering the period 1860 – 1950, can be seen at this site in the Australian National University Library: http://images.anu.edu.au/giles.html

Herbert Allen Giles – aged 12 years old Professor Herbert Allen Giles at Selwyn Gardens

Herbert Allen Giles at Ningpo at the time of the final work on the Dictionary in 1889

HA Giles Family Photo: Back row Valentine, Lionel, Bertram, and Lancelot.

Front row Mabel, H A Giles, Kathleen, Elise, Edith.

Giles (centre back) at the excavation of the old Dutch Fort at Kaoshuing

Lancelot Giles with Marjory Giles and my mother Rosamond in 1912

A messenger, aged 14 years, who took secret messages to Tientsin from Peking in 1900 during the fighting. Have you ever seen such strength and pride?

Ministers at the Signing of the Protocol in Peking after the Boxer Uprising

Lancelot and Marjory Giles at Tientsin 1932

My mother (seated left, biting her doll) aged one year and two months, 1908

My mother and father on vacation at Belstone, Dartmoor 1931

Rosamond Pickford and son in 1942, when I was eight months old.

A vase, a foolish old man and a wise old man, now in the possession of my daughter Kylie Gass

A Brocade Jacket and Jewellery Box in the possession of my daughter Jennifer Pickford

Below is the collection of works of art belonging to my aunt Marjory House.
Photographs are courtesy of her son Richard House

My Gifts to Fort San Domingo from the Giles Family Collection

This is a small ivory study of two Mandarin Ducks (Guangxu 1875, height 5.5 cm). It is my favourite of all the works of art that my parents brought back from China. To me, it represents faithful love, and it is with faithful love that I give it to Tamsui.

A carved fruitwood box of a finger-like lotus root form (Guangxu 1875, length 10 cm.). It has travelled around the world many times and has unfortunately sustained some breaks. But it is still a thing of beauty.

Inside this box I have placed an opal, which is the national jewel of Australia. In this way I have joined Taiwan and Australia symbolically and made the bond visible to all future visitors to the Museum