His skills as Inspector-General were recognized by both Chinese and Western authorities, and he was awarded several honorific Chinese titles, including the "Red Button", or button of the highest rank; a "Peacock's Feather"; the "Order of the Double Dragon"; "the Ancestral Rank of the First Class of the First Order for Three Generations"; and the title of "Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent" in December 1901. He was also appointed a "CMG", "KCMG", and "GCMG", and received a British baronetcy. In 1900, he was awarded the Prussian Order of the Crown (First Class), and received this in person the following year from the German Minister in China. In 1906, he was awarded a Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog by the King of Denmark.