THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1949.'
Inchcape-The orphan who
refused a crown
THIS man Inchcape was not spectacular,
T
but his story is inspiring. He faith Almost brutally he said:
fully controlled money for others
rather than made it himself.
In spite of his enormous interests and his reputation for great riches his personal fortune was a little more than £2 million.
The other inspiring thing
la that he didn't accumulate this by inheritance or specu- lation or dramatic luck, but by plain, honest, persevering work.
Not that his life incked glamour. That could hard- ty Lag snid of Scottish
orphan who ruse to be an earl und was offered the crown of a European country.
HE fought
his teacher
was born James Mackay
It is a great compliment
MASTERS OF MONEY
umber six
Ce before he was inarried. FunSenftish reluctance to at- trant Curb But Zakza into fa mable
senior The strictly religious pear the areaved Jakay with On Sunday Mackay pag- of to
HE Watt Hential lesen gested jously they go
of Arbroath beside the North church "as usual" ared when they Sew In 1032 His fallver
Rut there they Jayad the church hart been shut for repairs musille
a couple of ur own sadbu shups trading around the world, and young "deemie" early ne insired a love for the sea that
Lont
be never
The lay was Deree Indivl
Threatened at six with an unjusted caning be sallest
a tencher with Arts and
Ft
A might be farther fresk k
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The noted Youngster travel la fell overhand twtor
Al ten bus father ww drewni
spur and Two years later
he mother direct He was left An plan with a small putin
PINELY
1 1874 he went to Irati na Jerk
for Mackinnon Marken
antial asso. ut of the flatul Trolia Coas
• Co
There in Cisleufta, moped 23 for Legati fu elge heese rul Shoulders above all the other Cletha just by hard and CAITL scientious elfort He never
10 inbigue of carry favour
The dam began to send ra expedams along a Tende tes of int
Jani
The
Muhdle Fuxi Orders for bas TIPA and freight potated in Ju wake
hu
At 26 the chatarier +1 The
for
Puble
arrived recognition when he became sheriff of Val- tulia, aml then
Towards
but it is not
in my line
by
PAUL BRICKHILL
ac end
Wat he began to ral) creadng With the
ferocity
Armistice
a prisoner sel in
owned
He
Glenapp, a enslie in Ayrshire, and this, his yacht, and shooting tors were his most beloved relaxations.
lie never quite adapted him- art to the post-war world.
lic
could not lose เวล old values of 74 wealthy empire, hard work, nd Nich nan knowing his station in life and these clashed with aizmost Hrittses
the new turalez of the diacontents and
fran- Viceroy's Crument an anbeard-
ponderabira of
the new era's of honour for a itader, especial-
such a young one
Ex
In 1804 L was kutghted for his work ons moerenON
Arcial CONSCIENCE
cape.
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Jum
He was tu have a
In
A
Tirana
summer
ace as well, and
the trappings of royalty in a Mos- country, strange destiny for Scottish orphan. Inchcape gave short laugh and bat down and wrote reply with almost brala brevity:-
great
IN
מ
compliment 10 1
offered the crown of Albania, but it is no in my line."
He continued to perve Gri various
committees,
Ernie Bevin,
then
The "Dockers' K.C.
port, satel:
speaking of the famous Geddes
" in inch
The hand of
rough"
The result was the develop ment of intolerance [07:57
Tirelessly efficient self he always tended to de mand the same quality in those Depi hii
tra India, and a couple of years. Juter returned to London aract Teksty odber in the British Todin Stene Navigation Company
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MISSED his biggest honour
Green sent fou, 19011 to Chania to frame a aparter, cal freaty Biowatig
тетт its
to waddles of the Homer masing
Markay
T Shanghai haggling with Scol Ch tenninty with Chinese offi cals whos weg t Chart wet the pan bessere
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He won fame as a negotinfor
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In 1904 he Time after a director d the bung Carin Campany, and The merpated spokes · mory for tubish shipuuASTORES
wan
wow
The Government
Ins Ptegrity and accepted his
beramanur sppan erst an pelvice altruist withmal question books shoginecked. Dad TOURN wila mnemotena) eyes, it Tiebt owtih anu nganhine ause
Some of the dey sinh Scottish but will survived an MR. Every bow and then the tank youikia 211 21 wend Elder bat-
vourite tabolend to say the staus 100 bis ofte
to the c Takana od be
50 years of happiness
IN 1881 be enught Typhond and was send busck to Englund
i was de a veron pailuet
the Bratek Turka Company.
10 100 The malest heauur
at all post luded har
Five Secretary of Slate fix Ire- to tour toutes and I tu Tu Vapy, fout Me Fees Trimbibe E
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Valued than the appnasciment
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Asquithe Patcher Mats Balea 11. has
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Alek lez For tunity and got a name for thenation to employees who
IN
28 YEARS
A CONVENT
MISS Monica Baldwin.
cousin of the late Earl Baldwin. former Prime Minister. has returned to the world
Gftles in her
after spending 28 years as a nun in one of the most striet enclosed orders in the world.
She was released hy special rescript issued by the Pope.
She has set down her story in a book, nad the first instalment will appear
this Un
patge next Saturday.
Inchcape
LORD INCHCAPE, – Controlled two million tons of shipping.
re-
Increape at
WIS particularly
for retrenchments. 11
J argund that There was no senar in creating ani mkurated class. for which There could be me place in the "binck -vented" profesMTOTIS.
The plane vanished. Her father got that news by cable, 100, and for five days he kept the whole cs- capade from his wife, stilling his own agony, hoping that the plane would be found, and that there would be no noed for Junio suffer.
to
Only when it was certain Elate was lost! for ever did he break down and tell Junio. It was rather a touch- ing fent of unselfish- ncss.
There was still the understanding alde of him, the de- tachment of the
wealthy munn realisation vf
from the
problems of ordinary people.
Be was genuinely horrified to And the ordinary working mau clamouring for more ease and recreation,
"1 look on work an recreation," he pro- claimed rather smug- 13. "There is no greater pleasure in this world than work."
He called the dole "A sin against the country."
He became an carl
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at 77, but he still 8:00 P.M. Sunday, Friday, Saturday Nights
wouldn't stop work-
ing.
the
particularly
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depression wns cramping the balance sheets
of his beloved
companies.
Mort and more he
inveighed against high
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interference. He clung
His temper remained dicta- to his possessions and privileges torial, but just a wee bit he was with anger.
softening. To a secretary whe
made note:
A
mistake he wrote
We
all make mistakes make many. You make few,
my am always pleased when memory is better than
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Neuring 80, he used
more
to
1
in family for affection. iked the rule of patriarch.
He
J
yours You are a great
It is not often. help to me'
Inchenpe iad had a wonder- ful life crowned wit health, greatest of all success, wed prizes, a faultlessly happy mar- ringe. And then at 75 he mel grout tragedy.
him
team
And then in 1831 his Brat real liness struck and beautiful new 2,000-ton yacht over brok him to the Mediterranean
help Lay ward off death.
Dirvelor or chairman of over 40 companies he kept on work- Ing
was the first time he ever really tusted piiblie disapproval
in 1924 he became a visegant, and then be brought down public wrath on himself again with an attack on the strlet HIS adventurou daughter When his servitit went to Scolith Sunday and Klomy Elate had a pilot licence, and wake him in Monte Carlo churches.
while her parents were out of May 23, 1932. he found him up the way in Egypt she took off and at work at his desk in a with Captain Hinchliffe to my dressing-gown. the Atlantic in a little cockle- his heart shell of an aeroplane.
This row had not long died down when he stirred up on other; this time in a startling address as P. and O. chairman. blantrag the missionaries ib China for the F. and O. losses
of
The
condition t»f4-4༩༑ཏྟཱt
In Chino is ntagonism to 149 due to sending missionaries there to
ntud cravert Try people," he said.
The
Chiarse "I
how sk you wonk he regarded here, if they started mission stations here to
19 : Buideliais convert
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The well-
meaning people Elve up their
erusades in india and Chine the better 1 will be for us all "
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There were columns of letters the newspapers expressing
Everything about but had to bewyser
two be voriget, and out bis beloved for yuch he was tynneal in his
with an bakmay He bevatte Land Inch- demands for pulish and cran
itness.
STILL working hard at 74
told Inchcape WES
nothing about it after the take-off."
back dead,
COME
NIGHT
SUNDAY
Mandarin Lectures 7 P.M. SUN., FRI.. SAT. Kowloon.
tater WIVES
little stopped and he tell
London Express Service)
C. V. R. Thompson
Quiet wedding had them all excited
NEW YORK. compute J special fabrics,
E happy ending to the glass and china cabinets, child- ren's
wheel fullure, Luys, nut publie non-Holly-
Koods utensila and kitchen wood courtship in recent gadgets, and cutlery.
And heard years was seen by millions.
British goods whhh he thinks are not dangerous are A widower
furniture, of 71, the most these upholstered
and lovable politician in Washing- bedroom
dining-room There Was always a wel Trop
ton Vice President Alben sultes, fridges, and stoves. hardly because he had the habit As the years passed inchcape Barkley, or the V.P. us he likes
K adjusted bimself
little to call himself—fell in love at
As the Great War brakes___mtal, Ity his catum in the yacht bachcape completed the merger of the British India and P
arul
to rest Back In Arbroath h met Jane Shanks, an engineer 'n (> companies, bringing the elmughter, and, after one of those dignified, prolonged, and long range Victorian Tarried her.
romances.
combined fleets of 2 miljon torin under his control.
he
the
More than ever now he was
Ogore the most inucnligi British shipping. and he colossal service in co-ordinating the
sea ENOVANJA
transport problems of war,
to
It was the best thing Mackay ever
better than all money he made
They had 50 years of hup- piness, and no one can recull James Mackay
crossly al Janle
even
looking
Jante had only moderate suc- cess in enticing him to church.
shoot Mackay preferred snipe
ing
is
MAGH
Inevitably this meant neeepi- ance of Government interfer- too wus Inchcape ence, and
and Independent character and ton devoted efficiency to be happy officialdom.
of suddenly wanting to wipe a mark from the deck
better in the post-war world first sight this summer.
But the
Scolish lad never and even allowed himself to br sht dhe in the great
with Socialists magnate friendly For all his wealth he never Ramsay
ceased clutte he was not just
relatively humble commander of one his own ships,
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in reported Among of America's atom There are strong ru- that mours
David Lilienthal, Atomic Energy soon resign. is
of the
Is weetheart was a lovely bosses. like widow, 38-year-old Mrs Carle- who MacDonald.
В ton Hadley, They met at a head regretting that couple of years earlier he had cocktail party Elven by Pre- Commission, will
brainlruster, His regarded as an agent of Bolshe-sident Truman's
Clark Clifford. vism.
ان
he kept
While-haired at 74 Yet he was too dour a Scot ever to be seduced by ginnour. his wonderwal health, his energy
for work, and his passion thoroughness. He was nt his nine or earlier asked to be offer desk at each morning.
แ An extraordinary suggestion
to was made to him In 1921 - with secretly he was
king of Albania.
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And from then on he began companies over which of them
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TV pressing his
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The romance had Americans America. Washington's hard- up with ---even Lolled cynics-in hearts-and- D.B.C. official, Sir Novi flowers mood. And they would bridge, that no definite terting not allow the V.P. and his arrangements had widow the quiet wedding they yet with any firm. bed arranged.
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