What are Sir Edmund Barton honors?

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   Barton refused knighthoods in 1887, 1891 and 1899, but agreed to be made a Knight Grand Cross of St Michael and St George in 1902. He received an honorary LL.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1900.
   In 1905, the Japanese government conferred the Grand Cordon, Order of the Rising Sun, and Sir Edmund was granted permission to retain and wear the insignia. The honor was presented in acknowledgement of his personal role in resolving a conflict concerning the Commonwealth's Pacific Island Labourers Act and the Queensland protocol to the Anglo-Japanese Treaty.
   In 1951 and again in 1969, Sir Edmund was honoured on postage stamps bearing his portrait issued by Australia Post.

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