Mr. Duncan Glass It is with very deep regret we learn that news was received here on Sunday, by mail, of the death of a very old and well known China! putting in 21 years' service in all-hand in the person of Mr. Duncan Glass, which occurred at his residence, Clutha Lodge, Bournemouth, on November 25, 1919, at the age of 74 years.
Born on November 18, 1846, at Ardrossan, Ayrshire, the late. Mr. Tuncan Glass served for a period of ten years first as apprentice clerk and later as accountant in the Ardrossan branch of the City of Glasgow Bank and arrived in Shanghai to join the accounting department of Jardine, Matheson Ca. in the summer of 1869, travelling via the Cape on the str Glenartney, of which the late Capt. C. J. Bolton (afterwards shipping superintendent for Jardine, Matheson & Ca.) was master and the late Mr. Colin Buchanan fourth engineer.
After 15 years' unbroken service with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson Ca., Mr. Glass went on home leave in March, 1884, _returning in the autumn of the same year, and ten years later again went on home leave. In 1897 he was appointed superintendent of the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Ao., Ld., a position he occupied in a hardworking and zealous manner until the time of his retirement in March, 1910, when on his departure for home he was the recipient of testimonials from his employers, as well as from the foreign and Chinese staffs of the Shanghai Hongkew Wharf Ca.
On September 12, 1903, Mr. Glass was married to Miss Mary Robort- tY, son, daughter of Mr. W. Robertson, solicitor, of Glasgow, who survives him, and to Mrs, Glass and her two sons, who are resident in Bournemouth, the deepest sympathy is extended in their bereavement.
On his arrival in Shanghai in 1869, Mr. Glass at once took a keen interest in rowing and yachting.
was the oldest living member of the Shanghai Yacht Club and the oldest' Commodore of the Club. He sailed his first yacht race in Shanghai on Christmas Day, 1869, and as a rowing man was 2 mom-ber of the first Scottish crew that competed in the old days of regattas on the Soochow Creek. He was a member of the Scottish Eight in the years 1871-76, and in addition to stroking the winning boats in Fours and Club r. Committee events, won the Junior and Senior Sculling races. Many who are still resident in Shanghai well remember his lavish hospitality at regattas, and his launch was often to be seen. at the close of al fday's sport, towing yachts and houseboats to Shanghai front the upper or lower reaches of the river.
He was the owner of three yachts, two of which—the Cluthal and the Violet (built to the design of G. L. Watson)—are still
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