PRESENTATION TO MR. F. J. HANBURY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2743, 11 April 1916, Page 9

PRESENTATION TO MR. F. J. HANBURY

At Liverpool Street Hotel, London, recently, the employees .of Messrs. Allen una Hanbury's, Limited, presented his portrait to the vice-c'hairman, lh\ Frederick Jauson Hanbnry, and, a case of plate to his co-director, Mr. W. Ralph flodd, together with illuminated addresses. The presentation "was made on behalf of the members by Mr.' P. W. Gamble, who said that it celebrated the 200 th anniversary of a firm which had been established on the site of its present offices in Plough Court, Lombard Street, in 1715.

Mr. 'William Allen, M.S., was the first president of the Pharmaceutical Society; the name of Mr. Daniel Hanbury, F.R.S., was commemorated in the wellknown Hanbury medal awarded annually to tlie most distinguished international worker in pharmacognosy. The link with the first of the Hanburys was the present chairman of the company, Mr. Cornelius Hanbury. In acknowledging ihe presentation ol his portrait, Mr. F. J. Hanbury mentioned that the artist, Mr. Percy Bigland, had painted no fewer than four generations of the Hanbury family. He regretted that the advanced age of his father, Mr, Cornelius Hanbury, chairman of Allen and Hanburys, Limited, who celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday the previous mouth, prevented his being present. His (the speaker's) own memortes of the firm dated back over forty years. He had seen the demolition' of the original buildings, erected after the great fire, in which Alexander Pope was born, and Brougham, Vilberfowe, and Clarkson had held their first anti-slavery meetings—which, with, other historic facts, were incorporated in a volume on the 2<!o-yeav history-of the house now in the Press. The transformation during his own i'oriy years' experience could not be depicted even in outline. It was hard to believe that the same single site had once sufficed for the whole premises of a. con. corn wlmso works, laboratories, branches, and subsidiary companies were now scattered over the entire world.', They had to meet a difficult future, but could face it with confidence, because tho staff worked in loyal co-operation; Mr. W. R. Dodd also acknowledged the presentation to himself, and said that friendship and loyal co-operation were tho secret of the wonderful success of the firm which here celebrated its bicentenary. He himself joined the house in JS73, About 200 cmploycos of tho house . were now serving their Kina and oountiy.