Album 1 - China, Hong Kong and Japan 1920s. Includes photographs taken on the Empress of Russia, views of Swatow showing destruction after the typhoon of 1922 and deep-sea fishing off the Phillippines. Obituary for WE Kent.
Album 2 - Shanghai, England, Sumatra, India, 1937-38
Album 3 - Japan, Shanghai, Korea, India, 1930s-1940s
11 loose photographs various dates, chiefly Shanghai.
Captain William Essington Kent was born in Dewlish, Dorset in 1867. After serving his apprenticeship on sailing ships he went out to China where he first became a travelling pilot on Candian Pacific liners and, later, a Shanghai Licensed pilot. In 1923 he narrowly survived the earthquake at Yokohama where he also took part in a great deal of rescue work. He died at Dorchester, England in 1935 and is buried at his birth-place, Dewlish.
His son, Noel Essington Kent, was born in 1903. He worked for a subsidiary of Arnhold?s in Shanghai. When the Communists came to power in 1949 he moved to Natal in South Africa. He died in 1991.
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Donated by Carol Kent, the daughter of Noel Kent.
This description constitutes the only finding aid at present.
