Ronald Macleay and His successor Mr. Lampson Both Here Next Week Ronald Macleay, now retiring n the post of British Minister Shina, is expected to arrive in nghai from Peking, vid Tientsin, Sunday or Monday; and his esser, Mr. Miles Wedderburn 1PSON, C.M.G., M.Y-O>, Will arrive Shanghai, accompanied by Mrs lipson, by the P- & O. S. Mace-jo on Tuesday, November 30.
Ronald Macleay will come by and probably wilh travel from in to Shanghai in HM-S. it Ronald Macleay was born in the son of the late Col. A. C.
ay, o8., of the 3rd Battalion, forth Highlanders, his mother Mabel, daughter of the late 'W, Anderson, Cam, of the Raya gal Artillery, then wat lyn Emily, second daughter of late Right Hon, Sir Robert Peel, Bart, P.c, GE, whose mother "Lady Emily, daughter of the! ques of Tweedale. Educated Charterhouse and Balliol Col-Oxford, he became attached to Diplomatic Service in 1895 and different capacities in ashington, Copenhagen, Brussels, irid, Constantinople, Belgrade, Mexico, After more service in Foreign Office, he again went to sels, where he represented H-Government at the Second Con-nee for the Unification of Com-cla) Statistics. In 1914, Mr. leav was promoted Counsellor HM, Legation in Peking and, had conferred upon, 'From 1919 to 1922, to the Argentine, after relinquishing that post Ronald Macleay, for he was jo a Knight Commander of the er of St. Michael and St, George 1922, came to China to' assume appointment from which he has, retired:
The New Minister [r, Miles Wedderburn Lampson born on August 24, 1880, the of the late Mr. Norman Gear npson: His mother was the gater of Mr. Peter Blackburn, of Killearn, Stirling. Not yet ing reached his fifties, the new ister is one of the youngest jnls to become H. M- Minister to He married, in 1912, Rachel ry Hele, the daughter of Mr. Wil-Winton Phipps, and has two ghters- After being educated at Mr. Lampson entered the eign Office in 190%, and, three Tater, was seoretary to the ter Misvion to Japan. In 1906, was made a member of the torian Order, and, from 1908 to 1, was acting Second Secretary he British Legation in. Tokyo, ring, a year later, in Sofia, in liar capacity, Thus Mr.
is not a stranger to the Orient: much less is China strange to for he was acting First, Seereto He M- Legation in Peking in 8. In 1020, he was acting tish High ' Commissioner erin, and, two years later, he was lo a G.M.G- He also holds two nese honours, the third class er of the Rising Sun and the d class of the Sacred Treasure.
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