Mr. Harold Browett, senior member" of the Bar of HM Supreme Court in China, and for fifty-one years a resident of Shanghai, a very rare record in the local community, died yesterday afternoon in his 77th year. Mr. Browett was also one of the very few honorary members of the Shanghai Club.
A native of Birmingham, Mr. Browett always described himself as a "family solicitor," whose shelves in the Dickensian-like office in Museum Road held one of China's finest collections and most complete legal libraries. He came to Shanghai 1887, joining "B" Company S.V.C. shortly after his arrival; he remained with that company for two years and then spent thirteen years in the Reserve Company, of which he was honorary secretary.
On September 26 of this year he celebrated the fifty-first anniversary of his admission to practice at the Bar of the Supreme Court here. As far back as 1932 he was senior member of the Bar and in that year he received a letter signed by the Judges, Registrar, the Chief Clerk and all members of the Bar congratulating him upon what was then the 45th anniversary of his admission to practice.
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