News reached Shanghai yesterday of the death at Worth, Sussex, on February 14 of Mr, Alfred Lindsay Blechynden, formerly of Shanghai, aged 68, Mr. Blechynden was very well known among the foreign community during the years which he spent in Shanghai, and his father was the founder of the New Engineering & Shipbuilding Works, of which Mr, Blechynden later became managing director, Mr. Blechynden was born on July 4, 1880, at Cabbage Bay, New Zealand, and was educated in England at Allan's School, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He arrived in China in 1895, and was awarded the China Medal in 1900 for service with the Volunteers during the Boxer Up-prising, In his Shanghai days, Mr. Blechynden was a member of the leading clubs, and was a keen sportsman, indulging in shooting, mptorboating and sailing, Mr, Blechynden retired to England some years ago after many years' residence in Shanghai,
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