OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23052, 1 June 1938, Page 13

OBITUARY

MR. C. F. WARREN INSURANCE MANAGER SYDNEY, May 31 The death has occurred of Mr. C. F. Warren, general manager in Australia and New Zealand of the Prudential Assurance Company, Limited. Mr. Cyril Ferdinand Warren was born in London on January 24, 1882, and educated at Christ's Hospital. Leaving school in 1898, he joined the chief office staff in London of the Prudential Assurance Company, Limited, and had completed 40 years' service with the company at the time of his death. During the Great War the late Mr. Warren was on active service in France and

Italy, attaining the rank of major in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. In 1926 he made a business trip to India and was appointed manager of the London city office two years later. When the company began operations in the Dominion in 1931, Mr. Warren was made general manager for Australia and New Zealand, with headquarters in Sydney. He was well-known in the Dominion and paid his last visit to New Zealand in March of this year, when he made a trip to Wellington. Mr. Warren, who was a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, was an excellent public speaker. He took a kindly and persona] interest in every member of the company's staff with whom he came in contact. He was married in 1907 to Miss Alice Ellis, of Balbrigan, Ireland, and is survived by his wife and one son.