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 Mr. JOHN CAIRNEY BUCIIA- NAN, Resident Manager. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society. Calcutta.

was horn in Glasgow in [871 and has been activelv connected with lnrttrance since ﬁnishing his schooling at Larch- ticltl Academy, liclenshurgh. Scotland ; his lirat experience hiring heen gained in the County Fire Insurance tlt'ﬁce. Glareow, in t889. hearing that Oflice he gained further experience in the Equitable Fire and Acct

dent Assurance Company and

in the City of Glasgow Lite

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Light Horse Volunteers. and is a pro- minent member 0' the Calcutta Rowing Club.

DAV”! tftlkSAR BLAIR nay. horn in ltunhlane, Scotland, "I [30L lie was (ducatrd in that district .tlld began his business career in t878 tn the home of Messrs, James Finlay & to. Merchants. Glasgow. Eight years later he (amt: out to Calcutta for Messrs. l‘inlay. Muir .\' Co. of nhtch ﬁrm he is now one at the Managers. Heis a Member of the ('nmmtttee of the Bengal Cham- ber of Commerce and of the Indian jute Milk Association. and on the latter body he served as ('hairman itt Isoquqoo. He is also the Chair— man of the Calcutta Hydraulic Press House Association.

ALEXANDER (‘LASSEX t\' (T). .m- tit-twrnl Merl-hank and EK- lutrtcn and have their lit-ad ottit‘t- at 5, .\'«-w (‘hina Itaur Street. Cal- cutta. where they established them- wlvcs in tNiy. Thrv deal princi- pallt' tn jute. linseed. wheat and minutes and have a branch in Lott- «lun under thr name nl ('lasscn at (‘0.

Alexander (haunt. the sole pro- prietor. was l-orntn Bt‘fllﬂ tn 186v),

CARRITT. MORAN & COM. PAN Y. The ﬁrm of Alessrs. Cam'tt 6: Co. was started in 1875. and llll‘ original members were Mean. Thomas and Alfred Carritt. The partan tn-tlat' are Messrs. A. C. 5. Holmts and )1. Trevor. For Illt' past 30 wars Illt‘V have acted as llfukt'l“ in tea and general country produce at every descrip. tmtt. At present Messrs. (Larritt & t'u. are general pro-lure hmken only. their tca littstnrvz luring Work ed midi-r the name and Sh‘lt‘ 0| Messrs. Carritt. Moran & Cu. Messrs. Farritt took over the tea litts’iness of Messrs. Moran 6: (ft-- in tooz. with Mr. T. Moran as a partner. and since then the ﬁrm has ll‘l‘n worked. in rtspcct of tea nnlt‘. under the latter title.

don ﬁrm. on his own account tn mg}. under the tttlv ot Husk-y. JOHN & ('n. In tt'ln5 he started tltc ﬁrm of Alcxanticr ('lassen 43' CO. in Cologne. Germany. and in [897 thc present plareot hust- ness in Calcutta. Mr. l‘la‘xscn isa Director ol various Banking and Industrial mncurm tn Germany.

Mr. Ernest tiruehcr, Manager ul the Calcutta house. has tilled that otﬁcc since "‘07, having served

Assurance Company. ulti mately migrating to the Norwich Union Fire lnsu~ ranCc Society. Glasgow Branch. in t894. In Octo— her 1899 Mr. Buchanan came out to Calcutta to take charge of the “ Norwich Union‘s" interests there under the Agency of Messrs. Kilburn & (‘0. In February [903, when the Society opened out its own Branch Oﬂ'tce in Calcutta, to control its agencies in that city and in Northern and Southern India and in Burmah, he was appointed Resident Manager in charge. Mr. Buchanan is a hlt'mhct’ of the Committee of the Calcutta Fm- Insurance Agi-ntI' Association, and for two years past has been a Member of the Management Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is also enrolled in the Calcutta

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and was educated at I’nivcnitv College in that Citv. Alter complet- ing his education he acquired com- mercial practice in several houses of hnsiness. both in the Fatherland and in England. and opened the Lon-

lnr thret‘ wars in the London tirm from 1304, and previous to this {or three years with a firm of General Merchants in Hamburg. H:- was born in German)~ am! there min- rated.

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