Well Known Lawyer Leaves for Home After 27 Years in the East Much regret will be. felt by a large circle of friends both Chinese and foreign if Mr, J. H. Teesds partner in the legal' firm Teesdale, Newman & MeDonald who with Mrs, Teesdale, left for Home on Thursday in the str. President Taft, does not return to the Far East, For: the past 27 years Mr. Teesdale has been a Well: known and popular resident of Shanghai, who has also taken a conspicuous part in the administration of the Settlement. He has been a Municipal Councillor since March last year, was a member of the Electricity Commission and has served on the Parks Committee. For many years he has been actively interested in the welfare of the Shantung Road Hospital. At the Annual Ratepayers Meeting a year ago he was instrumental in getting the annual grant of the Municipal Council to that worthy institution increased. He was a member of most of the clubs, While a member of the A. D,'C,, of which he was chairman for four years, frequently appeared in burlesq with much humour and success. For a number of years, too, he was chairman of the Shanghai Club and has served on the committees of this club and the Country Club, Mr. Teesdale came to Shanghai in May, 1899, to join the firm of Stokes, Platt '& Teesdale, He left this firm in 1913 and setup partnership with the late Mr, Edward Godfrey, and they were subsequently joined by Mr.
(Newman. "The firm ultimately became in 1919 Teesdale, Newman MeDonald.
Mr, Teesdale is a Wykchamist of the fourth generation, his great-grandfather, grandfather, father and himself having been educated at, Winchester. One of his two sons who are in England is now being educated at that famous English public school, while the second is at preparatory school and, also, will soon enter Winchester College.' Mr. Toexdale married in 1912" Miss Gull, a sister of Mr. Gull, secretary of the British Chamber of Commerce, During the war he served in the Chinese Labour Corps, in which he rose to the rank of Cap In the realm of sport he first took to rowing, but later became a keen rider. As a paper hunter he has always been held up as a nvodel to the younger generation in the matter of honestly hunting paper instead of lying back and waiting for others to find it.
In writing what it is feared may prove a farewell account of Mr. Toetdale's life in the Far Bast, it may be permissible to say that the nickname by which he "has been known for many. years to his friends is "Honest John." That name sufficiently describes the man to whom it is applied. Mr. Teesdale is one of the kindliest men imaginable, one to whom anybody would turn with sure conviction of getting. the best advice and the utmost sistance of which a man might be capable. If Mr. Teesdale docs not East his many ids, both Chinese and foreig, assuredly wile wish him many years of happiness in the Home country.
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