The Archive · 1934

OBITUARIES AND FUNERALS Capt. George Gundry

'The death occurred of Capt. George Gundry, a retired member of the Shanghai Licensed Pilots Association, on June 30, in Southampton, at the age of 67 Captain Gundry was the son of Mr, R. S. Gundry, C. B., who, from 1865 to 1677, was' the editor of the "North-China. Herald" and the "North-China Daily News," the establishment of the latter paper being coincident with his appointment as editor. Mr. RS, Gundry played @ great part in' the pageant of Shanghai at "that distant. period and on his retirement was chairman of the China Association in London for many ye His only son, George, was destined by his father fo become a journalist, and started life on the editorial staff of this paper. That great lodestone of youth, the sea, however, called him from the restraining walls of a newspaper office; sri disregarding

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