OBITUARY.
Sm EDWIN DAWES. The local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company has received a cable 'message announcing the death of Sir Edwin Dawes, ; Chairman of Directors of the London Board. His death took place at Teneriffe on Monday, whence he toad gone to avoid the English'winter; Sir E. S. Dawes, K.C.M.G., was born in> Kent in 1838. and was the son of the Rey C. Dawes, vicar of Dilhorne, Staffordshire. He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, Birmingham, and' went to sea in 1854. He was in the Crimea throughout- the war, and in China from 1856 to 1865. In 1857 he was shipwrecked' off the coast of Sumatra, and," after being five days in an open-boat, was picked up and taken to Singapore. In 1865 he established the mercantil efirm. of Gray, Dawes and Co., London-, of which he was the senior j partner. In 'the following year he went to Persia, and opened branches of bis firm at Bushire and Bugreh, and in 1873 he visited Zanzibar in the interest of his firm. Since 184 he has occupied the position of chairman of directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company. The flag at the Lyttelton offices of the New Zealand Shipping Company was halfmasted to-day on account of the death of Sir Edwin Dajwes.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7892, 23 December 1903, Page 3
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