Born on 28 8 1849 in Canaries, George Warrand died on 21 2 1898 aged 48.
By May Houghton, his half-sister.
"Educated at Marlborough College, where he was` Head of School for some time and carried off many prizes. He went to Trinidad and traded in a firm there (possibly de Putron and Ruth), and afterwards he was in Java, at Surabaya and Batavia, and then he took up the Manchester branch of the firm (George Houghton). He married but they had no children that I know of."
Note. I'm not sure that this reference to the Manchester branch of the firm of George Houghton is correct. His father intended, by his will dated 23rd. March 1867 that George Warrand should also become a partner in the firm of Houghton, Smith & Co on attaining the age of 21. (1870). At his father's death in 1878, he was almost certainly working with him in Las Palmas, Grand Canary. In 1879, in London, he was granted administration of his father's estate, the other executor being his brother Charles Warrand. Possibly at this time the business was in receivership.
There is mention of a Houghton born in Sourabaya between 1915 and 1920, in the consular records at St. Catherine's House.
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