ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY.
PLAN TO REBUILD. (MOM OCX OW» COBBBSFOHMST.) LONDON, August 1. The Seal of the Boyal Empire Society has been affixed in the presence of members of the Council to the transfer of a bond for £IOOO in the 4 per cent. Funding Loan, which sum with interest coupons thereon to October 31st, 1927, has been presented to the Society by Mr T. H. Whitehead. Mr Whitehead, who at the end of last year made a generous gift for the creation of twenty scholarships for Scottish Boy Scouts, has for the past 35 years been a Life Fellow of the Boyal Empire Society, and from 1895 to 1902 served as its honorary corresponding secretary at Hong-Kong. After 28 years' work in the East with the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, he returned to this country in 1902, as London manager of that bank, and retired from its service in 1920.
Mr Whitehead's gift is earmarked for the New Building Fund, the Society having decided to commence the work of reconstruction npon its pre«ent site in Northumberland avenue early in 1930.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19724, 14 September 1929, Page 7
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