Slatin Pasha was appointed by General Gordon to the post of Governor of Darfur, Sudan, 1878 (?); British Inspector-General of the Sudan 1900-1914. Baron of the Austrian Empire, 1906; Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1898, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, 1908. Slatin was also an authority on Sudanese medicine: see R.C. Slatin, Additional notes to article by H.C. Zeki, 'The healing art as practised by the dervishes in the Sudan during the rule of the Mahdi and the Khalifa', Third report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College Khartoum, London 1908, pp. 277-279. Another portrait of Slatin in oils is in the Royal Collection at St James's Palace (1997).
