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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (JUNE) 1906-7.

1904; Deputy Colonial Engineer

and Deputy Surveyor General, Pe-

nang, 1905. Address: Penang,

Straits Settlements.

PIGGOTT, Sir Francis Taylor (HONG-

KONG), Kt., M.A., LL.M.; Chief

Justice, Supreme Court of Hong- kong; b. April 25, 1852, 8. of Rev. Francis Allen Piggott, of Worthing; m. Mabel Waldron, e. d. of Jasper,

Wilson Johns, J.P., D.L. Educ.;

Paris; Worthing College; Trinity College, Cambridge. Called to the Bar, 1874; special mission to Italy, 1887; Legal Adviser to Prine Minis-

ter of Japan, 1887-1891; Secretary

to the Attorney-General, Sir

Charles Russell, M.P., 011 the Behring Sea Arbitration, 1893; act- ing Chief Judge, Mauritius, 1895-

1897; Procureur and Advocate-

General, Mauritius, 1894-1905; pre- sent position since 1906. Decoration:

Kt. (1905). Publications: Foreign

Judgments, Vol. I., 1879; Vol. II., 1881; 2nd Ed., I Vol., 1884; Princi ples of Law of Torts, 1885; Ex- territoriality and Consular Jurisdic- tion, 1892; Service ont of the Juris-

diction, 1892; Behring Sea Letters, 1893; Revised Edition of Laws of

Mauritius, 6 Vols., 2nd Ed., 1894; Nationality and Naturalisation, and the English Law on the Highı Seas, and Beyond the Realnı, 1904; The Garden of Japan, 1892; Music and Musical Instruments of the

Japanese, 1893. Recreations: Golf. Club: Thatched House, Hongkong.

Address: Hongkong; E whurst,

Surrey.

PINCKNEY, H. (HONGKONG), Banker, Manager, International Banking

266

Corporation. Resided in Colony over 14 years. Club: Hongkong. Address: 9, Queen's Road Central,

Hongkong.

PITZIPIOS, George Demetrius (SHANGHAI), H.B.M. Vice-Consul. Appointed Student Interpreter in

China, July 26, 1883; 1st Assistant, Sept. 27, 1897; acting Vice-Consul at Shanghai, 1896 to 1897; acting

Consul at Chinkiang, 1897 ; acting

Consul at Canton, 1898; Vice-

Consul at Canton, May 10, 1898;

Vice-Consul at Shanghai, since 1900.

Address: H.B.M. Consulate, Shang-

hai, China.

PLAYFAIR, Frank William Walter

(NAGASAKI), H.B.M. Consul; b. April 8, 1858, e. s. of late General Elliot Minto Playfair, R.A.; m. 1893, Jane, d. of late Major-General J. Orr. Appointed Student Inter- preter in Japan, March 30, 1880; acting Consul at Nagasaki, 1884 and 1885; acting Consul at Hyogo, 1887; promoted 1st class Assistant, Nov. 9, 1887; acting Consul at Hyogo, 1888 and 1889 ; acting Consul at Hakodate, 1889 to 1890; acting

Vice-Consul at Tokyo, 1891 to 1892;

acting Consul at Hyogo, 1894-5-6, 1897 and 1898; promoted Consul for Consular District of Hakodate,

Aug. 4, 1898; transferred to Shimonoseki as Cousnl for Consular·

District of Shimonoseki; was also in charge of Austro-Hungariau interests at Shimonoseki; transfer- red to Tamsni, May 21, 1903; Consul at Nagasaki, 1904. Recreations: Riding, cycling, boating. Address: H.B.M. Consulate, Nagasaki, Japan; c'o Chartered Bank of India,