The connection of Mr, Trenchard-Davis with tha Royal Society of St. George has been long and honour. able. For many years he served upon the committee, was for two years Vice-President, and in 1924 was President. That, however, did not fill the sum total of his work for this organization, for as the society's senior past president, he was called upon to act many times in the chair when there were absentees. On account of this, and. because of his readiness to assist in anything tending to further the interests of the society, he has been familiarly known among members for years past as "the good old. standby." This in ited is a very high tribute to his popularity. Mr. Davis, however, did not allow St. George's Society to monopolize all his activities, but he was" keenly interested in all charities, not only assisting with his services, but there have been very few occasions when his name has not appeared as a generous donor. In the departure fof him and Mrs, Trenchard-Davis, Shanghai loses two of its best workers for the sweet cause charity, and this will be an addition al regret, An all-round sportsman in his younger days, Mr. Davis still show. ed some of his prowess in his later years in China, although he no longer exhibited the form which put him in the first rank in football, cricket _and rowing while in Aus tralia, He had been an especially fine oar, having stroked the Mercantile Senior Four who hold the championship of Victoria for thro years. He had gone in for the now extinct sport of kangaroo shooting, and then won many cycling races, especially in Singapore, when that was one of the favourite sports of the world, Golf, bowls and croquet have occupied his attention latter! and at the last mentioned he w one of the best players in the Far East, while riding has always been 'a great recreation of hi The connection of the family is, happily, not being broken with Shanghai, for his son, Mr, Claude Trenchard-Davis, Me, remains here, He is, of course, very well-known here, and has recently been promoted captain in the Volunteers Mrs, Trenchard-Davis Mrs. Trenchard-Davis, who leaves. this morning with her husband, is also a well-known and popular figure in Shanghai social life, and has been since her first arrival here in 1909. Mrs, Davis has always taken avery keen intercept in the many activities of the British Women's Association, from the day of that organization's inception. particular, however, her mame is Connected with the work of the Gardening Section of the Association, of which she has for. many years ben a foremost member and of=which she was secretary last year, Mrs. Davis has also always helped with the supplying and arranging of fresh flowers at the} Headquarters of the-B.W.A,, and in many other ways has proved herself valuable member, whom the Association will be -sorry to love.
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