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)
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Selwyn Henry Langston
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)