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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (June) 180C-7.

Joseph Kenny, J.P., Kingsmeadow House, Waterford, and Elizabeth Williams, Drumleigh. Educ,: Christian Brothers' School, Water- ford; French College, Blackrock; Germany; Senior Scholarship, Blackrock ('ollege. Appointed Student Interpreter in Japan, 1880;

Registrar and Interpreter of H.M.'s Court for Japan, until 1895; Vice-Consul, Tokyo, 1896; Barrister Gray's Inn, 1896; Consul for Hako- date and Niigata, and Consul for Tainan, Formosa, 1896; H.M.'s acting Commissioner and Consul-

General for the Hawaiian Islands

at Honolulu, 1898; present post,

since 1902. Recreations: Sports, exploration. Address: British

Consulate General, Manila; and Kingsmeadow House, Waterford,

Ireland.

KENT, Maurice Morton (BATANG PADANG), Federated Malay States Civil Service; b. July 24, 1867. Assis- tant Surveyor, Straits Settlements, 1888-89; Surveyor on Labuk River, British North Borneo, 1889-1891;

acting District Surveyor, Batang

Padang, 1898. Address: Batang Padang, Perak, Federated Malay

States.

KENT, Percy Horace Braund (TIEN-

TSIN), Barrister-at-Law; b. Sept. 11,

1876; m. 1901, Anna Mary, y. d. of late Rev. Henry Kingdon Simcox, of Harborne House, sometime Rector of Eweline, Oxon. Educ.: Rugby; Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Club National Liberal, Whitehall. Address: Tientsin, North China.

KER, William Pollock (NANKING),

H.B.M. Consul. Appointed Student

Interpreter in China, July 26, 1888; 1st class Assistant, Sept. 27, 1897;

acting Consul at Soochow, 1897 to 1898; acting Vice-Consul at Shang-

hai, 1898 to 1899; employed as As-

sistant in Chinese Secretary's Office, Peking, 1899; promoted Vice-Consul at Pagoda Island, Feb. 24, 1900; was at Peking during siege, 1900 ; acting

Consul at Wnlin, 1901 to 1902; pro- moted Consul at Wnhu, April 5,

1962; called to Bar at Middle Tem-

ple, June 24, 1903; Consul at Nan-

king, 1906. Decorations: China

Medal and Clasp. Address: H.B.M. Consulate, Nanking, China.

KERFOOT, James (SHANGHAI), En- gineer and Mill Manager; b. 1868. Educ.: Dukinfield Old Chapel School; Dukinfield Technical

School; Manchester Technical

School. Trained as mill mechanic and departmental foreman in manufacture of cotton, wool and silk, 1882-90; teacher in tliose subjects at evening classes, Dukin-

field Technical School; 1st honours,

Scholar in Cotton Manufacture, City Guilds, London; won the Koch Scholarship; Spinning and Carding Master and Assistant Manager at

Newton Moor Cotton Spinning Co., Ltd., Dukinfield; Head Manager at Messrs. John Leech and Sons,

Grosvenor St. Mills, Stalybridge, 1891-96; Manager and Engineer in Chief of Ewo Cotton Spinning and

Weaving Co., Ltd., Shanghai, since 1897; member of Council of Shang- hai Architects' and

and Engineers' Society; Past President of As- sociation of Lancastrians in China.

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