Standatd-Vacuum Oil Ca. For the pst eighteen years, he was in part~ ership with Mr. W. I, Biser (who died about @ year ayo) and Mr. C. Reeves, now the sole surviving part ner of the firm bearing their name, Surviving him in Shanghai are his widow, Mrs, Agnes Murphy and son, Arthur Dennis Murphy, and a daughter, Murphy, while he has. another daughter, Mrs, Irene Sulliven, at Salem, Massachusetts, it Edmund Wyldbore-Smith Shanghai, Oct, 20. News was received by' the' local fice of Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd. yes ay of the death of Sir Edmund Vsidbore-Smith, chairman of the company. As a' mark of respect, the real office will be closed today.' Sir edmund, amongst other things, was so a Director of the Suez Canal Ca. nil of the British and Chinese Cor-
Born in January 1877, he was the ison of the late Sir John Vyldbore-Smith and son of the Into tov. Francis Alfred Smith, Rector of warrant Rushton, Blandford, Dorset.
was educated at Halleybury: Join-ug the consular service, he was Vice-Zonsul at Tangier in' 1900, acting sul 1900-1905 inclusive and Charge TAttuires during Sir Gerard Lowth-x's mission to Fez in 1905; and was hen transferred to Canea, Crete, in \o07, being acting "Consul-General here in 1907, 1908 and 1909.
1910, he was seconded for service 4 the Exhibitions Branch of the Board of Trade and in 1911 was ant Commissioner at the Inter wal Exhibition in Turin, The allowing year he was a British dele-
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