35 years; for many years Sec. of Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.; resigned 1933. Club: Hongkong. Address: Hongkong.
ARTHUR, James Startin Wills (PENANG), B.A. Oxon; Straits Settlements Civil Service: b. March 9, 1881. Educ.: Oxford. Entered Straits Settlements Civil Service Oct. 1904; attached to Resident Councillor's Office, Penang, Dec. 1904. Address: Cadets Bungalow, Penang, Straits Settlements.
ASABUKI, Yeiji (TOKYO), Director of Mitsui Co.; b. in Oita-ken, Feb. 1849. Is manager of spinning dept. of Mitsui Company. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
ASADA, Yasunori (TOKYO), Member House of Peers; b. Kyoto, Nov. 1848. 1st Class Councillor to Japanese Legation, Washington, U.S.A. 1874; Councillor of Foreign Affairs Dept. 1879; Director of Commercial Affairs Bureau 1886; Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture 1899; Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs 1900; alter Vice-Minister of Communications. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
ASANO, Soichiro (TOKYO), President of Toyo Steamship Co.; b. March 1848. Is interested in cement and petroleum business. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
ATKINSON, Dr. John Mitford (HONGKONG), M.B., Lond., 1881; M.R.C.S. Eng; L.S.A., Lond., 1878; D.P.H., Cantab. 1894; Principal Civil M.O. and President Sanitary Board; b. Dec. 3, 1856. Prizeman at London Med. Coll., 1895-1897; Res. Med. Off. St. Mary Abbott's Infirmary, Kensington, 1878-1885; Med. Off. No. 3 Dist. St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, 1885-1887; Supt. Govt. Civil Hosp. and M.O. to Small-pox Hosp. and Govt. Lunatic Asylums, Hongkong, in 1887; in 1895 was appointed Acting Col. Surgeon; in 1897 to present position; received thanks of Sec. of State for services during plague 1898. Since 1903 has been an official member of Legislative and Executive Council. Club: Hongkong. Address: Sanitary Board, Hongkong.
ATOMI, Takino (TOKYO), Painter and educationalist; b. at Osaka, April, 1840. Is one of Japan's distinguished lady painters and educationalists; founder and proprietor of Atomi Girls' School. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
AWDRY, Rt. Rev. William (TOKYO), M.A., D.D., Bishop of Ch. of Eng. in South Tokyo; b. Jan. 24, 1842,?.,of Sir John Writher Awdry, Kt,, late 'Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Bombay; Oxford University Commissioner; m. Frances Emily, d. of Right Rev. G. Moberly, i Bishop of Salisbury. Educ.: Winchester; Balliol, Oxford; Fellow of Queen's Coll. Oxford. Won Ellerton Theol. Essay Prize, Oxford; rowed in Oxford Univ. Boat 1863-64; Ordained Deacon and Priest by Bishop Wilberforce (Oxford) 1866-67; Second Master of Winchester Coll. 1868-72; Head Master of St. John's Coll., Hurstpierpoint 1873-79; Prebendary in Chichester Cath.,
