News has been received of the death in Bristol, England, of Mrs. A. C. House (nee Miss A. C. Tilley), on May 25. Miss Tilley came out to China in 1915 as a governess, residing in Kuling in the house which was later sold to General Chiang Kaishek, and: which now forms his summer home, Before long, the demands of neighbours for the instruction of their children by her became so strong that with the assistance of friends she set about establishing a school.
Soon that school, the Redcroft School of Kuling, was known throughout the ports of China. Later, civil war made Kuling unsafe, and it had to be closed.. Undaunted, Miss Tilley immediately went to Tsingtao, and many of her pupils followed to form the nucleus of the new school she established there. Later, however, family needs necessitated her retirement from China, and while in England she married.
She combined in her own person and in perfect proportion, her pupils testify, headmistress, teacher and firmly tender mother, and her death will come as a personal loss to the many young people in China and elsewhere who studied under her.
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