OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 238, 21 July 1941, Page 6

OBITUARY.

MR ROBERT HAMPTON. With the death of Mr Robert Hampton, at “Cumbrae,” IPendairves, on Saturday. Mid-Canterbury lias lost another of its pioneers. Mr Hampton, who was born at Kilmorp County, Armagh, Ireland, in 1850, was brought up to- a farming life. He came to New Zealand in 1874 in the sailing ship “Delharee,” arriving after a. voyage tha,t occupied, three months. After spending a year or two in the Ellesmere district Mr ‘Hampton, with his brother Thomas, did contract cropping on the Acton estate, Rakaia. Later they took up land out of tussock in the Scofield district and after. 25 years there they moved to “Cumbrae,” a part of the old Selma estate. Of a retiring disposition Mr Hampton never took any part in public life and never married. He was the last of a family of seven, sons and one daughter. Six of the sons came to New Zealand and one went to Canada. SIR GEORGE SHIRTCLIFFE. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 20. The death occurred to-day of Sir George Shirtcliffe, chairman of directors of A. S. Paterson and Co., Ltd., and a former chairman of directors of the Wellington Trustee and Agency Co., Ltd. Sir George Shirtcliffe was born at Worksop, England, in 1862. His parents took him to Christchurch, New Zealand, two years later, and lie was educated at Christ’s College. He began his career as a cadet in the Government Land Office at Timaru in 1877. A year later lie joined the National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd. In 1880 lie became accountant, and in 1882 be was appointed accountant for the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association, rising two years later to the managership. He became manager and a. partner in A. S. Paterson and Co., Ltd., in 1890. From 1912 to 1919 he was managing director, and in 1927 he became chairman of directors. He served on the Wellington City Council from 1907 to 1913, and was a member of the Wellington Harbour Board from 1906 to 1908. He pas past president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and had been a member of numerous Royal Commissions, including the 1932 National Expenditure Commission, of which he was He was a prominent member of the Anglican Synod. Sir George was a generous benefactor, and on his retirement from the chairmanship of the Council or Scientific and Industrial Research in March invested an endowment of £20,000 with the University of New Zealand to enable students of outstanding ability and character, but who lacked means, to continue their studies. MR W. G. FELLINGHAM. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. *Mr William George Fellingham, secretary of the Nntional Rifle Association since 1922, is dead.