DOUGLAS, SIR ROBERT KENNAWAY English orientalist, was born in Devon. In 1858 he became at tacked to the Chinese Consular Service. Seven years later he returned to England and was made assistant in charge of the Chinese library in the British Museum and, in 1893, keeper of the Oriental books and manuscripts. He was also professor of Chinese in London. He died at Chippenham on May 20, 1913. His chief publications are Life of Jenghiz Khan (trans. from Chinese, 1877); Confucianism and Taoism (1879) ; China (1882); Society in China (1894) ; Li Hung-Chang (1895) ; and Europe and the Fay- East (1904)•