Career of a Well-Known in Many Hunts Victorious Shanghai loses one of its Leading) his proudest possessions was a architects by the death, which ocjeurred suddenly from heart failure fon Jan, 21, of Mr, Charles Gilbert Davies, at '975 Avenue Foch. My. Davies, who was born on Decemiber piano given to him, on the occasion Jof his marriage, by "the men on the He won many hunts, several of them on a pony called which afterwards" became ras subsequently: ap-Prenticed to a tea broker in Mining Lane, London.
Coming out fo Shanghai in March, 1888, for the tea firn of George fOtiver and: Ca, he was almost. mediately. twanaferred to Canton, that in fess than 'a year, owing the failure of this frm, he returned to Shanghai, 'Here he returned. his old' profession as architect, and for 'a. Short. time was associated with Mz, W. M. Dowall, PRILB.A,, afterwards joining the Public Works Department of the Shanghai Muni= Council, with which he remained unt' 1886, During this time he supervised the erection of various. works, hud Central Police. Station, Victoria Nursing' Tome, the ity station in. Yuhang Road, fand Bubbling Wel Chapel, On June 1, 1807, Mr. Davies started practice own account with an ofice Canton. Read, first commission' from 'Siz Pearce, and built for him his rest idence in Sinza Road. The practice grow rapidly, andthe offices were Moved, fret ¢o Riukiang Road, then the' old "North Chita" Balla and afterwards to No, 10 the Bun where the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building now stands, In 1900, the year of his marriage to Miss Alice Wright, the daughter jot Alexander Wright, manager of
d by Mr, Charles W. Thomas, th aes Charles WW. Thomas the fron being styled Davies and Thomas. his frm carried out a series of im] portant "works, comprising a large number of private residences, offers, godowns, and other buildings These included the otices of Butterfield and Swire, the Astor House Hotel "the "telephone "building in Kiangee Road and many wharves and godowns.
Mrs Thomas retired from China in 181" and Mr. J.T, W. Brooke, ALRILBA. became a partner in the firm, whose name was then changed to Davies and Brooke, under. which Dame the practice hag been carried on ever since. It is interesting to ote that, as" well as such import. fant etraciures as the Great. North-em Telegraph building and Holts Wharf, chis firm was' responsible or the only tunnel in Stanghal, which runs tudor Nanking Road and joing together the two New World buildings, Mr, Gilbert Davies was fan INS, and Mi. Struct E, for many years an ToRLBA, and 1930" was elected a Fellow of the Royal "Inctitute of British Archifects. He designed the Union Jack, Club, the New Lyceum Theatre, and much of the Race Club reconstruc Ie was this pony that he won the Jockey jin 1893, and the rose part. in. steeplechases, in-many other ponies to wietory, for
eluding such famous ponies pioneer, belonging to the late Mr, George' Coutt and Brassey and Prince belonging to the late Mr.
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