. Notable Londoners, an illustrated who's who of professional and business men. Bankers and Merchants of Calcutta, Bombay,Madras and many other cities in the East; and of Strich,Scott and Co., Ltd., trading in Persia and Iraq. He is alsoa Senior Partner in the firm of R. G. Shaw and Co. of Londonand Dundee ; Chairman, Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd. ; theBritish Tanker Co., Ltd. ; the British Petroleum Co., Ltd.,etc., and is on the Board of many other important companies,chiefly concerned with oil enterprise. Sir Charles spentnearly twenty-five busy years in India, during which heplayed a very imp
. Notable Londoners, an illustrated who's who of professional and business men. Bankers and Merchants of Calcutta, Bombay,Madras and many other cities in the East; and of Strich,Scott and Co., Ltd., trading in Persia and Iraq. He is alsoa Senior Partner in the firm of R. G. Shaw and Co. of Londonand Dundee ; Chairman, Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd. ; theBritish Tanker Co., Ltd. ; the British Petroleum Co., Ltd.,etc., and is on the Board of many other important companies,chiefly concerned with oil enterprise. Sir Charles spentnearly twenty-five busy years in India, during which heplayed a very important part in the industrial developmentof that country, more particularly in the production ofcoal, oil, tea and cotton goods. It was at his instancein 1914 that the British Government was persuaded toacquire lioldings in the Persian Oil Concessions, an invest-ment which has already proved a greater financial assetthan the British Governments share in the stock of theSuez Canal. He is a member, among other clubs, of theCity of London, Orleans, and Ranelagh. (Photo: Snaine). CHARLES CHAXTREY IXCHBALDLondon Manager and Member of the Board of ManagingDirectors of the Russo-.\siatic Bank. Educated at Chelten-ham College, on leaving which he entered the London Branchof the Comptoir dEscompte de Paris. Five years later,going out for a shooting trip to China, he rejoined theBank in Shanghai and remained for many years in the FarEast. In igon .Mr. Inchbald accepted an offer to comehome as London Representative of the Russo-Chinese,now the Russo-Asiatic Bank. Took part as one of the twoDelegates for Russia in the 1913 Five-Power a Director of several Russian Industrial sport, shooting. Club, Oriental. (Photo : Hiissdl)
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