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William Henry Macleod Read : ウィキペディア英語版 | William Henry Macleod Read
William Henry Macleod Read (7 February 1819 – 10 May 1909) was an active participant in the commercial, political and social life of Singapore and the Malay states between 1841 and 1887.〔(See article on Singapore Infopedia )〕 ==Early life== Read was born in Scotland, the son of Christopher Rideout Read, co-partner of A. L. Johnston & Company. Aged 22, he travelled to Singapore to take his father's place at A. L. Johnston & Company, Singapore's leading merchant company at that time, his father retiring and returning to England the following year (1842). Alexander Laurie Johnston, his father’s co-partner, retired and left Singapore in December. Read headed the company until his own retirement in 1887.〔An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore: From the Foundation of the Settlement Under the Honourable the East India Company on 6 February 1819, to the Transfer to the Colonial Office as Part of the Colonial Possessions of the Crown on 1 April 1867 By Charles Burton Buckley Published by University of Malaya Press, 1965; p. 367〕 Read was predeceased by his wife, Marjory Cumming-Read at age 21 on June 24, 1849. Cumming-Read was the daughter of banker John Cumming of Forres, Scotland and there is a (stone marker in her memory ) as his "beloved and lamented wife" at St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore.
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