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

Civil Medical Officer and President

of Sanitary Board, 1900. Ap- pointed to present position, 1903. Club: Hongkong. Address: Civil Hospital, Hongkong.

BELL, W. G. (SINGAPORE), M.A., Glas- gow; Acting Post Master General. Cadet, Straits Settlements, Oct., 1897; passed final examination in Chinese, May, 1900; Supt. Money Order Branch and Government

Say. Banks, Singapore, July, 1901;

2nd Assistant Prot. of Chinese, Penang, May, 1902; acting assistant Post Master General, Penang, May, 1902; acting Post Master General, Straits Settlements, Oct. 1903. Clubs: Singapore. Address: Singapore,

Straits Settlements.

BENBOW, Majcr John

Edward

(SINGAPORE), Army Paymaster; b. Aug. 16, 1858. 2nd Lieut., 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards, Jan., 1881; Lieut., July, 1881; Capt., Jan., 1888; Major, June, 1894; employed with Army Pay Dept.; since May, 1894 Army Paymaster, Straits Settle- ments. War Service: Operations in Sierra Leone, 1898-99. Address: Pearl's Hill, Singapore, Straits

Settlements.

BENHAM-BROWN, Rev. Henry John

(PEKING), Clergyman; b. May 14, 1864; m. Nov. 27, 1899. Educ: St.

Paul's Miss. Coll.,

Coll., Lincolnshire.

Ordained Priest, 1889; arrived in

China, April, 1887; S.P.G. Mission- ary at Tai-An-Fu, Shantung, 1887-93; Chaplain to Eng. residents at

Chefoo 1893-96 ; Tai-An-Fu 1897-1900; escaped during Boxer outbreak and took refuge in Corea; appoint-

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ed chaplain at Wei-Hai-Wei, 1901;

tansferred to Tientsin, 1903; in Eng.

on furlough, 1904; appointed Priest in charge of S. P.G. work at Peking,

1905. Publications: Several small

treatises in Chinese. Address:

Church of England Mission, Pe- king, North China.

BENNETT, Edward Leigh (PEKAN),

F.M.S. Civil Service; b. Feb. 25, 1874. Appointed to Public Works Department, Perak, 1992; Assistant Engineer, Pahang, 1904. Address: Pekan, Pahang, Federated Malay

States.

BENNETT, Ernest Fredk. (ICHANG),

H.B.M. Consul. Appointed Student Interpreter in China, April 7, 1884; acting Consul at Chinkiang, 1892; at Swatow, 1892 and 1893; at Kiungchow, 1894 and 1895; at Wuhu, 1896; promoted 1st Class Assistant, Sept. 27, 1897; acting Consul at Ningpo, 1899 and 1900; promoted Consul at Ssumao, Feb. 24, 1900; transferred to Ichang, April 5, 1892. Address: H.B.M. Consulate, Ichang,

China.

BENT, Herbert (Canton), Partner in Firm of T. E. Griffith, Raw Silk Merchants, b. Jan. 12, 1863, 2nd s. of Baldwin H. Bent, J.P., of Good- worth House, Andover, Hants.; m. May 24, 1900, May, 2nd d. of late C. D. Moss, of Yokohama. Educ.: Marlborough College. Clubs : Can- ton; Hongkong; Yokohama United; Grosvenor (Lond.) Address: Sha- mien, Canton, China.

BERINDOAGUE, Louis (HONGKONG), Manager Banque de l'Indo-Chine,;