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Obituary  Notices. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
<-    December,  19 17. 
He  had  a  varied  experience  in  the  importing  and  wholesale  deal- 
ing in  drug  products  and  had  a  host  of  friends  in  the  various  drug 
organizations  and  pharmaceutical  societies  in  which  he  was  an 
active  worker.  He  served  a  term  as  president  of  the  Drug  Club 
and  was  president  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  191 1- 
1912. 
He  took  an  active  part  in  political  matters  and  his  ability  as  an 
ardent  worker  as  a  local  or  district  organizer  in  the  Liberal  Party 
was  recognized  by  the  leaders  of  that  political  party.  He  was 
knighted  in  1906,  and  in  1910,  in  recognition  of  his  record  in  polit- 
ical and  social  reform  service,  his  Liverpool  friends  presented  him 
with  his  portrait,  the  presentation  address  being  made  by  the  then 
Prime  Minister,  Mr.  H.  H.  Asquith. 
His  decease  in  his  seventy-second  year  terminated  a  successful 
business  and  social  career  marked  by  a  high  sense  of  integrity  and 
honor. 
