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

WRAY, Cecil (PAHANG), British Re-

sident, F.M.S. ; b. Aug. 18, 1853, e. s.

late Leonard Wray; m. Aug., 1894, Ethel Maud, 2nd d. late Rev.

Richard Baxendale. Educ: Private

Sch. Entered Public Works Depart- ment, Perak, Oct., 1881; assistant to Collector and Magistrate, Kinta, Perak, 1882; Collector and Magi- strate, Batang Padang District, 1887; Collector and Magistrate, Krian, 1892; acting District Magi- strate, Kinta, 1896; acting Senior Magistrate, Perak, 1897; Chief Magistrate, Selangor, Sept., 1897; District Magistrate, Kinta, 1900; acting British Resident, Pahang, March, 1904; confirmed, Sept., 1904; Fellow of Geological Society; Mem- ber of Royal Photographic Society; local Corresponding Member of Anthropological Institute. Address: British Residency, Pahang, Fede-

rated Malay States.

WRAY, Leonard (PERAK), I.S.O.,

M.I.E.E., F.Z.S., etc.; Director of Museums; b. 1852. Educ.: Privately.

Entered Perak Civil Service as Su- perintendent Government Hill Gar- den, 1881; Curator, State Museum, Perak, 1883; State Geologist, 1890. Publications: "Alluvial Tin Pro-

specting"; various scientific papers in Kew"Bulletin," Journal Royal Asiatic Society, Journal Anthro- pological Institute, Perak Museum Notes, Journal of the F.M.S. Museums, Pharmaceutical Journal; Journal of the Society of Arts, etc. Club: New, Taiping. Address: Taiping, Perak, Federated Malay

States.

WREFORD, John Frederick (PE-

NANG ), B.A. ; Advocate and Solicitor of Supreme Court, Straits Settlements; b. Dec., 1859, 8. of John Wreford, J. P., ('lannaborough, Devon; m. 1895, Marion Gertrude,

o. d. late Alex. J. Johnston, of

Shanghai. Educ.: Winchester; Exeter Coll., Oxford. Admitted as

Solicitor, London, 1883; called to

Bar of Straits Settlements, Feb., 1889; for many years, President Penang Turf Club; landowner, Clannaborough Bow, Devon. Club:

Sports, London. Address: Penang.

Straits Settlements; Clannaborough

Bow, Devon, England.

WRIGHT, Lieut.-Colonel George

(SINGAPORE), D.S.O.; Commanding

R.A., Straits Settlements; b. July

18, 1860. Educ.: Royal Military Acad., Woolwich. Served in South Africa, 1900-1902, as C.R.A., Rhode- sian Field Force; afterwards A.P.M.

and C.V.O. to Lord Methuen.

Decorations: D.S.O., Queen's Medal with four clasps, King's Medal with two clasps, mentioned in despat- ches. Address: Singapore, Straits

Settlements.

WRIGHT, George Henry Bateson

(HONGKONG), D.D., Oxon; Head Master, Queen's College; b. 1853. Educ: Queen's College, Oxford, B.A. 2nd class Theol., June, 1875; Denyer and Johnson Schol. and

Kennicott Hebrew Schol., 1876;

Syriac Prize; Pusey and Elerton Schol., 1877. Head Master, Queen's College, Hongkong, from 1881. Publications: "Critical Edition of

Book of Job," 1884; "Was Israel ever in Egypt?" 1895. Address:

Hongkong.

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