We greatly regret to announce the death at Sidmouth of Mr. Henry William Goodenough Hayter, one of the best known and most deservedly popular residents of Shanghai. The nows was received in Shanghai on Monday night.
The late Mr. Hayter was educated at Charterhouse and began his career in the officers of tea brokers in Mincing Lane. He came out to China in 1882 and ed the firm of Messrs, Wilkinson Ca, as @ tea-taster, at the same time acting as selling agent for his father's firm, Messrs. Hayter Hayter, the well-known Government packers of Upper Thames Street. He next joined Messrs, Iveson whom @ few years ago he left to join the Oriental Advertising Ca.
however, less as a business man than 4s an exceptionally clever artist and @ man of quite extraordinary social aptitudes that the late Mr. Hayter will live in the memory of Shanghai. Three papers, all of them amusing and clever, the "Rattle," the "Eastern Sketch" and the '"Quack" owed much of their vitality end genial incisiveness to his pen. For Mr. Hayter was a cartoonist who combined exceptional powers of penetration and satire with the kindliest disposition and the gentiest sense of the incongruous. Many of his pictures are well-known throughout the Far East, and deservedly occupy prominent positions in social clubs.
For "H, H." was a great club man, keenly interested in all that appertained to the social amenities of life. He took a prominent part in amateur theatricals, especially in burlesque, and the success of many an A. D. C. performance in the eighties early nineties, when ladies with histrionic abilities were scarce, owed its success to his clever acting in women's parts. He was a member of most of the local clubs and served on the committee of the Country Club, the Shanghai Club and the Race Club. It was in 1909, if we remember accurately, that the Race Club presented him with a large silver bowl, which he always counted amongst his most cherished possessions.
In the previous year his health began to fail, and part of the year 1910 was spent in endeavouring to recuperste in Germany. He returned
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