[2] In 1906, he ‘came to Europe from Peking for the first time at the age of six months in the company of my mother, my brother and [two] sisters, a Japanese ‘Amah’ and two Chinese servants’.
In 1922 he returned to China to study the language, and visit his sister Madeline and Tuk-San[2] and then until 1924 attended Christ's College, Cambridge.
[1][4] In Paris he met many members of the Surrealist movement; he was particularly influenced by Giorgio de Chirico and Max Ernst.
[1] He was buried at Glanvilles Wootton Church, five miles south of Sherborne, Dorset on 22 January 1983 (record number 732 in the Parish Registers of burials 1880–1985).
[1] An exhibition at the Museum of Somerset in Taunton, ran from 9 November 2019 – 18 April 2020, see Landscapes of the Mind: The Art of Tristram Hillier.