The death occurred suddenly terday at the aye of 59 years of Mr. W. B. O. Middleton for many years a -prominent resident of Shanghai, Surviving him are his widow and their two daughters; a sister in Tientsin; a brother in Australia and another in America; and a brother in Shanghai, Mr. Hugh Middleton. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. A Mr. Middleton came out to China at the beginning of the century. He was married here in 1908 and has remained in Shanghai ever since. except for periodic trips Home, of course, and brief holidays spent in other parts of China and Japan.
He was very well known and liked in the business world, being a director of Burkill & Sons and a number of their associated companies and a ce-director with his brother in the firm of. Hugh Middleton Ca. (Insur.), Ltd..He was president of the St. Andrew's Society during the past veer and was a member of the Shanghai Club, French Club and other clubs in Shanghai.
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