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

35 years; for many years Sec. of Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.; resigned 1903. Club: Hongkong. Address:

Hongkong.

ARTHUR, James Startin Wills (PENANG), B.A. Oxon; Straits Set-

tlements Civil Service: b. March

9, 1881. Educ.: Oxford. Entered

Straits Settlements Civil Service

Oct. 1994; attachel to Resident

Councillor's Office, Penang, Dec. 1904. Address: Cadets Bungalow, Penang, Straits Settlements.

ASABUKI, Yeiji (TOKYO), Director of

Mitsui Co.; b. in Oita-ken, Feb.

1849. Is manager of spinning dept.

of Mitsui Company. Address:

Tokyo, Japan.

ASADA, Yasunori (Tokyo), Member

House of Peers; b. Kyoto, Nov. 1848. 1st Class Councillor to Japanese

Legation, Washington, U.S.A. 1874; Councillor of Foreign Affairs Dept. 1879; Director of Commercial

Affairs Bureau 1886; Governor of

Kanagawa Prefecture 1899; Vice- Minister for Foreign Affairs 1900;

alter Vice-Minister of Communica-

tions. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

ASANO, Soichiro (Tokyo), President

of Toyo Steamship Co.; b. March

1848. Is interested in cement

and petroleum business. Address:

Tokyo, Japan.

ATKINSON, Dr. John Mitford (HONG-

KONG), M.B., Lond., 1881; M.R.C.S.

Eng; L.S.A., Lond., 1878; D.P.H.,

Cantab. 1894; Principal Civil M.O. and President Sanitary Board; b. Dec. 3, 1853. Prizeman at London

Awd

Med. Coll., 1893-1897; Res. Med. Off. St. Mary Abbott's Infirmary, Ken-

sington, 1878-1885; Med. Off. No. 3 Dist. St. Mary Abbott's, Kensing- ton, 1885-1887; Supt. Govt. Civil Hosp. and M.O. to Small-pox Hosp. and Govt. Lunatic Asylums, Hong- kong, in 1887; in 1895 was appointed Acting Col. Surgeon; in 1897 to present position; received thanks

of Sec. of State for services

during plague 1898. Since 1933

has been an official member of Legislative and Executive Council. Club: Hongkong. Address: Sani- tary Board, Hongkong.

ATOMI, Takino (TOKYO), Painter and educationalist; b. at Osaka, April,

1840. Is one of Japan's distinguish- ed lady painters and education- alists; founder and proprietor of

Atomi Girls' School. Address:

Tokyo, Japan.

AWDRY, Rt. Rev. William (Tokyo),

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M.A., D.D., Bishop of Ch. of Eng.

in South Tokyo; b. Jan. 24, 1842, s. of Sir John Wither Awdry, Kt., late Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Chie

Bombay; Oxford University Com- missioner; m. Frances Emily, d. of Right Rev. G. Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury. Educ.: Winchester;

Balliol, Oxford; Fellow of Queen's

Coll. Oxford. Won Ellerton Theol. Essay Prize, Oxford; rowed in Ox- ford Univ. Boat 1863-64; Ordained Deacon and Priest by Bishop

Wilberforce (Oxford) 1866-67; Second

Master of Winchester Coll. 1868-72;

Head Master of St. John's

Hurstpierpoint 1873-79 ; Prebendary in Chichester Cath.,

Coll.,