Advice has been received of the death in England on May 20 last of Mr. R. L. B. Wodehouse. ance Society of Canton, Ltd, at Tientéin, leaving there in 1936 w become Secretary of the Society at its Head Office in Hongkong, where he retired in 1938 owing to ill-health, Mr. Wodehouse leaves à widow Mr. Wodehouse was not well- and two daughters in England, with known in Shanghai, having only been whom much sympathy will be felts a short period in the port before the Great. War, but during his 28 years ti service with the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., he was well-Aut three of the Scandinavian known at many ports in the Far kingdoms are connected' by marriage East, particularly for his skill. with the Royal house of Windsor: all games, He won the Open Golf Queen Alexandra, grandmother of Championship at various times in King George VI, was daughter of Hongkong, Singapore and Tientsin, and in 1928 played cricket for All India against the l. C. C. One of his claims to fame was that he was a brother of "P. G."
During the latter period of his time in the Far East Mr, Wodehouse spent some six years as Branch Manager of the Union Insur-
King Christian "IX, of Denmark, Her youngest daughter Princess Maud, married her cousin, Pring@, Charles of Denmark, King Haakon: of Norway. The Crown. Prince or Sweden has had two English, wives, Princess Margaret, elder daughter of The first, who died in 1920, wag!
the Duke of Connaught,
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