Talk:T. G. Purvis

later life and death
Thanks to Haiguan for finding the obituary in the China Mail. It would be interesting to have more information on his later life, and perhaps add an example of a painting from his later Hong Kong career (there are plenty online, but I'm not sure about copyright issues (he has been dead more than 70 years)).

Specifically on the China Mail obit: it says he stopped sailing (as a commercial captain) in 1918, which is contradicted by the National Maritime Museum records, which give names and dates of the ships of which he was master or mate between 1915 and 1925 - the NMM record is from his applying for a replacement Master's certificate in 1926, so he may well have continued sailing after that date. A more trivial point: exactly which day did he die? If the China Mail is dated 17 Jan 1933, it probably implies he died on the 16th (exact wording is "last night"), whereas the previously cited source (official notice appealing for his son Osmond to get in touch) says 17 Jan.

(Dmollison (talk) 07:35, 1 August 2012 (UTC))

Can the China Mail cutting be uploaded to wikipedia? It's from 1933, i.e. 79 years ago. I have a copy, but for the present have erred on the side of caution by removing the link from the reference.

Dmollison (talk) 08:29, 12 September 2012 (UTC)