Many friends in Shanghai will re-to learn of the a ior residence (49 Roland Gardens, Sowh Kensington) of Captain Claude fvcn Williams, Into of the Maritime Customs at Shanghai which occurred Tuesday, November 6, at the Captain Withams had been in hes ith for a long time but the end came very sudécnly to the great sorrow of a wide circle of friends, Eld-'08: son of the late Rev. John Wil-hams, Vicar of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devonshire, deceased was an eld Worcester boy and originally Joined the P. & O. service and after-words was appointed to a post in the Chinese Maritime Customs in Scull Chita and later in Shanghai, retiing in 1910 after 30 years ser: vice when in command of the s. Lui-Hsing. He way a founder member of the Overseas League and formerly took an active interest in Freemasonry for which he was received in the Sth class of the order of the Excellent Crop in 1915. Dur-{Ing the war he was engaged in mine sweeping in the Chinese seas.
Fis wite, who survives him, with daughter, was a daughter of General Brabszon Pottinger of Poona, Into, and was a great niece of Sir Henry Pottinger, the first Governor of Hongkong.
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