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William Gawan SEWELL [1898-1984]

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Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-08-28 21:56
Names
Given: 
William Gawan
Family: 
Sewell
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1898-07-06
Birthplace (town, state): 
Whitby, Yorkshire
Birthplace (country): 
England
Death
Date: 
1984-01-13
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
Connections: 
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Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2013-12-08 19:08.

William Gawan Sewell born July 6, 1898 in Whitby, Yorkshire. Died January 13, 1984.

Quaker missionary and lecturer in Chemistry in China before the war. Interned in  Stanley (author of the memoir 'Strange Harmony', 1946). After the war represented the University of Ghana in London until retirement in 1964.

A collection of his letters and other material is stored at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London: http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb102-ppms16

Submitted by annpake on Wed, 2020-05-27 18:28.

Passenger List arriving Southampton October 1945

William G Sewell, Hilda G Sewell and children Ruth Veronica Sewell 12, Daphne Joy Sewell 10 and Roger Guy Sewell 8 arrived together.