“His friends will be pleased because he is getting on to the Continent and progressing, and they will be sorry because they will lose a sincere friend and energetic helper in any good cause that demands assistance.”[15]While in Hong Kong he was active in espousing British cultural values, as a subscription to the colony’s Coronation Celebration Fund in June 1902 can attest. We can also start to extrapolate conclusions of the prevailing cultural ideas and sentiments of the times by looking at the titles of various lectures held by the Odd Volumes Society in their annual report of 1902/3 such as ‘The Chinaman, the Anglo-Saxon and the Orient’, ‘The Reasonableness of Christianity, ‘The Defence of the Empire’, ‘Buddhism’, ‘Marriage’ and ‘Chinese Manners’.[16] Next Steps – Any Research Leads? Much more research is to be undertaken by our new PhD student who will take on this project and make it their own. However, if anyone out there has leads or archives that would be of interest, please contact the project’s First Supervisor, Dr Melanie Bassett via ptuc@port.ac.uk





Notes [1] See also, Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage and Education Centre, ‘Case Studies Lloyd’s Register Surveyors in China, 1869-1918’, https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/get-involved/lloyds-register-surveyors-in-china-1869-1918 [2] Lloyd’s Register, ‘This month, Lloyd’s Register is proudly celebrating its 150-year anniversary in China’, https://www.lr.org/en/who-we-are/lr-in-china/ accessed 10 March 2020. [3] Robert Bickers, China Bound. John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816-1980, (London: Bloomsbury, 2020. (Kindle edition)), location 152 [4] Catherine L. Phipps, Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1858–1899, (Harvard University Asia Centre, 2015), 7-8. [5] Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage and Education Centre, ‘List of Surveyors’ https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-library/lists-of-surveyors [6] Grace’s Guide, ‘Newman Mumford’, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Newman_Mumford [7] J. F. Bosher, Imperial Vancouver Island: Who is who? 1850-1950, (Indiana: Xlibris, 2010), 515-516. [8] Overland China Mail, 22 April 1905, 8. [9] Library and Museum of Freemasonry; London, England; Freemasonry Membership Registers; Description: Membership Registers: Colonial and Foreign C 646-8900 to Colonial and Foreign D 801-1041; Reel Number: 24 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/60620/images/43971_cl%5Ef%5Ecd%5E188709-00633?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=163f99a1ec024ff03b7a54eea31f1865&usePUB=true&_phsrc=evX1764&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.251751945.1625508299.1634726540-21813019.1547568596&pId=913686 [10] Overland China Mail, 23 January 1906, 9. [11] Overland China Mail, 22 April 1905, 6. [12] Overland China Mail, 22 April 1905, 7. [13] Overland China Mail, 08 September 1903, 7. [14] Overland China Mail, 13 December 1904, 6. [15] Overland China Mail, 13 December 1904, 6. [16] Overland China Mail, 26 March 1904, 7.
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