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SIR, S. INSTONE PASSES AWAY BRITISH COAL
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NOVEMBER
-16, 1937.
that he was William Farren, actor and member of a famous theatrical family. On September 11 a death nolice stated that "Percival Farren," beloved husband of "Adelaide Far ren," hind died at Wimbledon. William Farren, who was 04, was the fourth and last of a direct. Une noted actors, beginning with William Farren in 1754.
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Ealca Brigadier-General James Caunter, c.n., c..., of Elmbank, St. Sir Samuel Instone, the well-known Morychurch, Torquay, at the age of shipowner and a director of Im 78. He had a comparatively, short perial Airways, died here: to-day regimental career, but the held many aged 50. Sir Samuel was chairman staff appointments and for several of S. Instone & Co., witch he found-years was on the staff of the Royal ed at Cardir. He де a former Military College at Sandhurst. Lleutenant of the City of London.- Reuter,
Sir Samuel, British coat and ship- ping magnate, was born at Gravesend โค August 1878, His name was originally Einstein, but he changed It during the war. When he was 14, his father died and he had to go to work. When he was 15, he secured a job with the Compagnie Maritime Boulognaire ai Boulogne. At the early age of 21 he took over the management of the company's bust- ness in Cardiff. When he was 20 he and his brother started business on their own account in shipping. They began with two vessels and eventual- ly owned 30. Next they turned to coal-exporting and bought colileries. After the armistice when there was much delay in mails to France they overcame the difficulty by the ploncer step of using an aeroplane to transport their bills of lading Later Sir Samuel became a director 01 of Imperial Airways and of four other pers
was chairman companies. He of S. Instone and Co., steamship owners, colllery proprietors, coal
exporters and
ship one insurance brokers. Started as a private ven- ture with the title of S. Einstein and It was converted in 1922 into a
Co
public company. Its issued capital totals £1,207,102. Instone's colliery firms were the Askern Coal Brid Iron Co., and the Bedwas Navigation
Coal Co. In 1936 his insistence on membership of the Miners' Industrib! Union as a condition of employment|| at his Bedwas pits led to a serious labour dispute in South Wales where it was demanded that the men should be allowed to belong to the Miners Federation.
Sir Samuel, who was knighted in 1921, married in 1010 Miss Alice Maud Liebman, well known as a violinist.
VISCOUNT KURINO
The Rev. Charles Augustus Whit- tuck, In Oxford at the age of 60, II was an undergraduate of Oriel Col- lege, taiting a second cluss in Lit. Humiin 1872.
Northey, whose appointment us chict Mr. Herbert Wilbraham Hamliton
accountant of the B.B.C. was an- the car he was driving hit a tree on nounced the previous day died after
the pavement in Chiswick High Road.
Mr. Ceci J. H. Cowdy, of Crescent Road, Sidcup, Kent, 50, accountant to the Corporation of Lloyd's, and a body was discovered in a lake on the member of the Sidcup Golf Club. His
Sidcup course.
Mr. James Henry Stephens Brigh- ton at the age of 75. Senior partner in the well-known Arm of nc- countants, Lescher, Stephens and Co., he was also on the boards of some 14 companies, of many of which he was chairman.
Mr. John Drummond Hogg, M.D.E., British Consul-General in French Indo-China, in Paris, Mr. Hogg, who was a native of Berwick-on-Tweed, joined the consular service in 1017 and had been in the East ever since. The Duc de Talleyrand, a decin- lecun- dant of the famous Napoleonic French Foreign Minister, was found dead in bed at his Paris home from
natural causes. The Duke, who was
18. married at the Strand register office in London in 1908 the Countess Boniface de Costlelane, formerly Miss Anno Gould, daughter of the American millionaire.
Major-General Sir F. W, I. Lan- don, at a nursing home at Newcastle at the age of 77. lle was throughout his career concerned with the sex- vives of supply and transport. He saw the beginning of their modern organization, and had a share in their} development up to the outbreak et) the War:
Professor W. J. Woodhouse, Pro- Aged Japanese Statesman Dies fessor of Greek at Sydney University,
al Sydney at the age of 70.
At Kamamura
Tokyo, Nov. 15. The
death has occurred of the Privy Councillor, Viscount Shinichiro Kurino. 87, at Kamamaru-United Press,
Miss Annie Rogers, M.A., knocked down by a lorry while walking to her home in Oxford. She played u noluble part in promoting the education of women in the Univer- sity, und herself taught generations of classical students. She was 81.
who of
The Hon. D. &. MacDonald, recently retired from the office Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba, at Winnipeg at the age of 70.
Viscoun: Kurino was a graduate of Harvard University and after return- ing entered the diplomalle service. He was Foreign Office commissioner in 1881, and was sent to Europe na Japan's delegates to the International Post Conference. Iis next post was Director of the Political Affairs Mr. G. H. Wheeler, a former Bureau in the Foreign Office undersecretary to the Ecclesiastical Com- Viscount Enomoto.
missioners for. England at his home at Surbiton at the age of 67.
General Rafael de Nogales, the Venezuelan soldier of fortune, died In Panama. He was an exceptionally cultivated man who enjoyed fight- Created a Buron after the Russo-ing for its own sake, and Whose Japanese War, he was later promote from violent death-Our Own Cor- career-was-one-lung-series of escapes ed to Viscount. He was well-known
In connection with the Tonghak Disturbance he was despatched to Korea in 1893. In 1894 he was Minister to America, to Italy in 1890 and to France in 1897,
as the father of telephone administra-
tion in Japan.
PROMINENT PEOPLE
Recent Deaths Reported In England
The following deaths were report- ed in England during the past week: Mr. William Dewhurst, the London stage and screen actor, suddenly at his honic iri Moatland's House, Cromer-street, W.C. Mr. Dewhurst was a West End stage character and was known for the long cigarette- holder he affected.
well-
Mr. Andrew Williamson, a known and highly respected gure in the City, at his home in London at the age of 14. le ranked among the leading authorities on Australian aktairs,
Sir George Greville in Brussels ul the age of 80. He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1873, and after being successively Secretary of Legation at Rio de Janeiro Consul-General at Budapest he was appointed in 1090 Minister at Bang- Rox. In 1900 he was transferred as Minister to Mexico,
and
Mrs. Grimth, widow of Francis L. Grifth, Professor of Egyptology at Oxford University, at Oxford at the uge of 64, having survived her hus- band only three and a half years.
Mgr. Simeon, at the age of 90.. He was for 05 years Archbishop of Varna, and was revered by King and people alike. He fought a spirited Bght against the Greek Patriarciz' of Constantinople for the independence. of the Bulgarian National Church and, na vice-president of the Con- stituent National Assembly of Tirnovo, took an active part in the drafting of the Bulgarian Constitu- tion.
Mr. Robert Lydston Newman, n former director of the Bank of Eng- land, in London of pneumonia at the age of 72.
Lord Warrington of Clyffe at his residence, Clyffe Hall, Markot Lavington, at the age of 10. Ho was one of the eight Judges of the Chancery Division whom Lord Halsbury created during his long period of patronage as Lord Chen- cellor.
Seven weeks after the death of Mr. Percival Farren it was made known
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