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MR. HENRY LESTER'S DEATH.

FAMILIAR. SHANGHAI FIGURE,

THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1926.

that he ought to have a motor car or a trap, shake of the head Tm- plying negation was their only answer. Ils dally stroll along the Bund was a

well-known incident to friends and acquaintances, and

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In a letter anno ding his re- Judgment as regards the other accused will be announced on May

25.-Reutor.

CAIRO CONSPIRACY, ONE DEATH SENTENCES

Cairo, May 19, The conspiracy trial has closed, and the court announces A very, familar gure has dis- though an old man he still gave the papers in connection with

considerable attention to Appeared from Shanghai in the

Mohamed Fahmy All will be sent person of Mr. Henry Lester, who affairs of the firm with which he to the Mufti; which indicates that had been connected, This firm died yesterday morning about seven o'clock, says the N. C. Daily was formed in 1919 when the busi ho alone is sentenced to death.

neayes of Mr. Lester and Mr. News of Saturday last. He had been in failing health for a con- George A. Johnson were amul- siderable time, and in the middle gamated, while at the same time of April was taken to the General Mr. Gordon Morriss was taken into partnership, when the concern took Hospital, where he had been since the title of Lester, Johnson & Mor-signation as chairman of Hertford Prior to this, he had had a stroke, iss. In June, 1915, Mr. Lestor Quarter Sessions, which was read and there is no doubt that this un-retired, but continued to attend yesterday, Sir Alfred Roynolds dermined a constitution of a very the office dally until a few weeks said:"I am not sufficiently alert. robust nature, hastening the end." ngo. For many years also he put in my left car to take every point, Mr. Lester came to Shanghai In in a daily appearance at the bank and a chairman should not be in

that position." 1863 or 1864, according to old re-which handled his finances and sidents who had known him for took a markedly keen interest in".

He received his many years.

the mounting numerals training in London as an archi-

fortune. tect and land surveyor, and it is

A SONT OF RETIREMENT, anderstood that he came to Shang-

About 25 years ago Mr. Lester bai first in connection with a sur decided to retire from the Far vey of the Settlement which the East and, having entrusted his in- Municipal Council had decided to tereats here to Dowell & Co., we carry-out. He served for a time think, went to London. He took in the Public Works Department to operating on the Stock Ex of the French Council, also, and change and lost heavily in the first survey of Shanghai, in American rails, the worry days when the boundary line of which brought on insomnia. He the Treaty Port at the west was tried the cures of several Con- Hohun Road, was made by Mrtinental 'spas" and eventually

Læster during these years.

The filling in of the Bund along the Ewn foreshore is also attribut ed to Mr. Lester as well, as the building of the China Morchants' wharf and pontoon some 40 years ago, the latter having been, a source of pride to its architect even till a little time before, his death when he was to be seen strolling along this section of the Bund with gront frequency.

ARCHITECT AND LAND PURCHASE.

It was following the completion of his work with the Council that Mr. Lester resumed his profession of architect, and, after being in partnership with one of the archi- Lects of that time, he established himself in business. A great many of the old hong buildings, whieh have by now almost entirely dis- the Settlement, appeared from

of his

of

came back to Shanghai for

lie drifted holiday. Somehow into business again and stayed for the remainder of his days. He

shook off quite insomnia, but he was able to hold to his depreciated stocks which ultimately turned out very well.

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As a young man in China, Mr. Lester did considerable riding, but soon the concentration of business drove him more more into himself. That he en- on occasion, couraged sports while not taking part in them, is evidenced by his having given for a number of years a bat to the cricket player making a "century, though this was also many years ago.

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THE CATHEDRAL ORGAN. Few of his gifts to the were designed by him, while he munity have ever been known to did an immense amount of impor- the public. An exception, how- tant work in the construction of ever, to this was in the ease of numerous wharves, and godowns the Cathedral organ, when along the river front.

meet an unexpected deficit and

to wipe of all debt in A man of great foresight, he so very early saw the potentialities nection with it, he gave a donation of Shanghai, and made large in-of Tls, 25,000. It is generally un- vestments. in property. How well derstood that by the provision he gauged the situation may be of his will several local charities" gathered from the fact that prior will benefit to a very considerable many years Mr. to his death he was probably the extent. For

was a regular attendant" largest landowner in Shanghai, Lester most of his property being used at the Cathedral,

He was the Shanghai Club's for the purpose of Chinese build- ing. To the very end he took the oldest momber, having joined in keenest interest in property here, 1868 and throughout yesterday and it was always interesting to the Club flag was hung at half meet him on the Bund, for in- mast. Mr. Lester's death is alao matter of personal regret to stance, and learn from him the a changes which had taken place those who served on the "North- there in his time and to note how China Daily News a decade ago. greatly prices had advanced for For long he was Chairman of our

and took land since his arrival here, some Directors

great interest in the paper and its sixty years ago.

note stuff. It is of interest to that the firm bearing his nanic- Messrs. Lester, Johnson & Morris

Having taken advantage of the great opportunities offering in these years of dealing in land, Mr. Lister was naturally a very wealthy man, and his estate is, be- lleved to be in the neighbourhood

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designed the present building, which replaced the structure that had stood for so long on the

of two and a half or three millions Bund.

WAR DEBTS.

THE ANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS.

of pounds sterling. He was B Mr. Lester was 87 years of age. generous man, though few of the gifts which he made were ever known to the public. Though he had few intimates do secount of his close attention to business pro- jects from the earliest days of his residence in Shanghai, those who know him best sny that he took a kind of humorous, delight in appearing close with his money, and almost miserly at times. His personal habits were of the sim piest, and no luxuries marked the routine of his daily life.

London, May 19.

M. Peret has left for Paris. In- terviewed by Reuter, he said he was satisfied with the result of his conversations with Mr. Churchill. "We have arrived at nothing de-. finite yet, but it is better perhaps to go slowly where each party has

When friends commented upon his pedestrain habits, telling him to make concessions."Reuter.

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