[1] In 1894, he was advanced to the fourth degree by the Emperor personally and was appointed Mandarin of the Blue Button, honoured by the Dragon Throne with the Peacock Feather.

[4] An active philanthropist, he often provided dinners, gifts and entertainment at his own expense for recipients ranging from the Benevolent Society home at Liverpool, other leading Chinese-born merchants, including Yet Soo War Way Lee of Adelaide, to the newsboys of Ashfield, Summer Hill, Croydon and Burwood.

His tea rooms were the site of the first meetings of Sydney's suffragettes, and he devised new and improved employment policies for staff, such as paid sick leave.

In June of that year, Quong Tart also tried to win support for a ban on opium in Melbourne and Ballarat, Victoria.

[5] He was also part of the NSW Royal Commission on Alleged Chinese Gambling and Immorality and Charges of Bribery Against Members of the Police Force from 1891 to 1892.

[2] Quong Tart was born in 1850 in the village of Shandi[7] (山底), Duanfen (端芬鎮) in southern Taishan, Guangdong province, China.

[5] Quong Tart immigrated to Australia in 1859 with his uncle, transporting a shipload of miners to the goldfields around Araluen and Braidwood in regional New South Wales.

[5] Aged just 21, Quong Tart built a cottage at Bell's Creek with a small fortune developed from investing in gold claims and was prominent in sporting, cultural and religious affairs.

On 11 July 1871, he became a naturalised British subject, joined the Freemasons in 1885 and was appointed to the board of the Bell's Creek public school in 1877.

[5] In 1881, he returned to Taishan, China at the request of his family, and visited Canton and Nanking to set up operations for a tea trade to Sydney.

Quong Tart's Elite Hall in the Queen Victoria Market Building was formally opened by the Mayor of Sydney, Matthew Harris, in 1898.

Quong Tart's tea rooms were also located at 777 George St, in Moore Park Zoo, and in the Haymarket theatre district.

As part of his employment program, he devised new policies for his employees, including sick leave, holiday pay and time off for personal reasons.

On 26th of July 1903, Quong Tart was brutally bashed with an iron bar and robbed of a few pounds at his office in the Queen Victoria Building, a crime that shocked Sydney.

The attacker, Frederick Duggan, described as a "dim-witted thug,"[3] was jailed for 12 years, a light sentence for a crime that police believed was a simple robbery gone wrong.

After the attack, Quong Tart never fully recovered, and he died from pleurisy[5] at his Ashfield home 11 months later on 26 July 1903, aged 53.

Two hundred men escorted the coffin from his Ashfield mansion to a train which transported the funeral party to Rookwood Cemetery.