it. E, S, Little Shanghai, Feb. 4, For many years a member of the Shanghai Municipal Council and a leading member of the foreign community in the port, where he was active in all phases of business, Public and social life, Mr. Edward Selby Little died at his New Zealand home on Thursday at the age of 15, After a long illness. Popular with all classes of the community, Mr, Little was chidly remembered as a founder of Kuling as a health resort Born in Dorsetshire in 1864, Mr. Little was educated at Taunton and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He went to America as a young man and there Joined the Meihodist Episcopal Mis-Sion, Later he returned to England where -he married Miss Caroline Amelia Bate, the daughter of 3 Wesleyan Methodist clergyman.
He arrived in China in 1886 and worked with the Methodist Episcopal Mission at Chinkiang, Kiukians, Nanking and Yangchow." Lis active ties and personality were such found missionary life, though very interesting, did not provide sutficient scope for his activities and in 1900 he Joined Messrs. Brunner, Mond & Ca, opening-up their buslnest in China, which at that, time was negligible. In the face of considerable difficulties he succeeded in building up a business with offices throughout the whole country. 1918 Mr, Little retired from the business which is now the Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd.
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