Donald Mennie
Illustration — A Bridge at Wan-Hsien, Plate XXII from The Grandeur of the Gorges, published 1926 Donald Mennie (9 March 1875 – 10 January 1944) was a Scottish businessman and amateur photographer who worked in early twentieth century China. Mennie was born in Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland in 1875, the son of Adam Mennie, a druggist, and his wife, Barbara Macleod. He had an elder brother James and a younger brother, Adam.
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Illustration — A Bridge at Wan-Hsien, Plate XXII from The Grandeur of the Gorges, published 1926 Donald Mennie (9 March 1875 – 10 January 1944) was a Scottish businessman and amateur photographer who worked in early twentieth century China. Mennie was born in Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland in 1875, the son of Adam Mennie, a druggist, and his wife, Barbara Macleod. He had an elder brother James and a younger brother, Adam.
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Born at Golspie in 1875, died in Shanghai in 1944.
Identificatie Titel(s): Altaar des Hemels te Peking
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Identificatie Titel(s): Altaar des Hemels te Peking
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1875
Donald Mennie born at Golspie.
1944
Donald Mennie died at Shanghai.
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- 1.National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon. 1875 MENNIE, DONALD (Statutory registers Births 051/ 10). Scotland's People.
- 2.Worswick and Spence, 150.
- 3.California, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959
- 4.Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936
- 5.Worswick and Spence state that Mennie "appeared in China in 1899" (p. 146), Hahn states that Mennie "resided in China between 1891 and 1941".
- 6.Worswick and Spence, 146; Hahn. A.S. Watson & Co. were chemists, druggists, and wine and liquor merchants.
- 7.Worswick and Spence, 146. Coastal China was notably the location of the principal treaty ports.
- 8.Hahn.
- 9.Worswick and Spence, 146.
- 10.Worswick and Spence, 124, 146, 150; Hahn.
- 11.UK, WWII Civilian Deaths, 1939-1945
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