Selwyn Henry LANGSTON [1889-????]

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Names
Given
Selwyn Henry
Family
Langston
Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Born
Date
Birthplace (town, state)
Camberwell, Surrey
Birthplace (country)
England

He is mentioned in the list of civilian internees:

Langston S H 53 Merchant

Comments

Born May 10th, 1889 Camberwell, Surrey, England.

Served in WW1.

Married Evelyn Blair in Kingston, Surrey in 1917.

In Hong Kong he was a businessman at one time associated with the Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company and at another with the Cow & Gate Milk Food company.

He and  Evelyn Mary Langston were transferred to Bungalow D/1 from Bungalow C after it was partially destroyed by an American bomb on January 16, 1945. John and Barbara Fox had been living in D/1 but after the birth of their daughter Maureen earlier in the month they moved to D/6, a small amah's room which had become vacant when Hilda and Mary Selwyn-Clarke were sent to Ma Tau-wai Camp in Kowloon to join Selwyn after his release from prison in December 1944.

Sources:

Selwyn Henry Langston, London, Dulwich College Register 1619-1926 (Find My Past).

England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005, Kingston, Surrey, England (FMP)

'S. H. LANGSTON Exchange Building' South China Morning Post, 16 Jan 1935: 11. 

 Franklin Charles Gimwon Papers, Volume 2 Lists/Maps, 2.25, p. 120 (University of Hong Kong, Special Collections)