THE WHITTINGTON TRADITION

Evening Star, Issue 21881, 19 November 1934, Page 11

THE WHITTINGTON TRADITION

There was a small twelve-year-old boy earning 5s weekly in a London; office sixty-one years ago; he is now, Lord Mayor of London. Short, rotund,; benevolent-looking, Sir Stepben_ Killik, now 73, member of the Committee of the London Stock Exchange, Fellow, and Prizeman of the Society of Accountants. and Auditors, senior Alderman of the .City of London, told a little about himself the other day. Sir Stephen says he left school ati twelve; bought second-hand books byr economising on meals; taught himself shorthand ; attended evening; classes-j got a job in a stockbroker’s office; i» still in a stockbroker’s office. “ My heroes have always been Dicki Whittington and David Copperfield,’* says .Sir Stephen. V They were poor, boys like myself. My. father, a doctor* died when I was twelve, and left only, debts. My mother, two sisters, and myself had to leave our Chelsea home and I had to go to work. I got a job as-an office boy.”