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Harry Edward Arnhold
Harry Edward Arnhold (born 16 January 1879 in Hong Kong) was for five years the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, the body that administered the Shanghai International Settlement in Shanghai, China; the chairman of Arnhold & Co., which is now Arnhold Holdings Ltd.; and the chairman of the Shanghai Land Investment Company, which owned the Broadway Mansions apartment building in the Hongkou District of Shanghai. Arnhold was a close business associate of Sir Victor Sassoon,〔''The American Mercury'' 1 (1924):67.〕 and managed various Sassoon enterprises.
==Personal details==
Arnhold was a British Jew of German ancestry.〔Robert A. Bickers, ''Britain in China: Community Culture and Colonialism, 1900-1949'' (Manchester University Press ND, 1999):132; see also Carl T. Smith, "The German Speaking Community in Hong Kong 1846-1918", 26-30.; http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/44/4402104.pdf〕 He was the son of Anne and Jacob Arnhold (died July 1903 at London), nephew of Phillip Arnhold (died on 29 March 1910 at Altona, Hamburg in Germany), and brother of Charles Herbert Arnhold (born 19 September 1881 in London).〔Carl T. Smith, "The German Speaking Community in Hong Kong 1846-1918", 26-27; http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/44/4402104.pdf;〕 Arnhold was educated in Britain.〔Bickers, 132.〕
Harry Arnhold's first marriage was to Mary Oldham. This marriage ended in divorce.〔Smith, 29.〕 Arnhold's second marriage was to Martha (Esther) Jean Arnhold.〔 Jean was eighteen years younger than Arnhold.
During World War II, Arnhold and his wife were interned by the Japanese. Jean was allowed to leave Shanghai on the MS Gripsholm in 1942. Arnhold was kept a prisoner for the remainder of the war. After the war, Arnold and his wife made their home in Hong Kong. In 1949, the Arnholds decided to move to New York. Harry died the following year at the age of 70. Jean died in 1965. In her will she established the Esther Jean Arnhold Fund to be administered by Community Funds Inc. She asked that income from the Fund be used to benefit young people and the arts.〔(New York Community Trust profile of Jean Arnhold )〕
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