Dupree, William Sherlock, 1881-1975 (businessman)
Dates
- Existence: 1881 - 1975
Biography
William Sherlock Dupree worked for the Chinese Maritime Customs before joining Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd in 1912. He was employed as the company's Agent at Changchun, Hankow and Harbin until his retirement in 1941. He rejoined the firm during the Second World War, working at Chungking and New York, before retiring again in 1946.
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Green correspondence files, 1932-1941
Selected semi-official, private and confidential, and other letters of Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd regarding particular subjects, with related papers. The principal correspondents are B.D.F. Beith; D.G.M. Bernard; Butterfield & Swire; W.C. Cassels; A.L. Davidson; W.S. Dupree; V.M. Grayburn; J.H. Keswick; W.J. Keswick; D.F. Landale; Lowe, Bingham & Matthews; E.R. Morriss; D.L. Newbigging; J.F. Owen; J.J. Paterson; F.A. Pollock and J.C. Taylor.
Property letters from Chungking to London, 2 June 1943-30 Nov. 1945
Property letters from Hankow to Shanghai, 26 Apr. 1929-28 Aug. 1941
Property letters from Hankow to Shanghai, 16 May 1946-22 Sep. 1954
Property letters from London to Chungking, 8 Nov. 1943-5 Sep. 1945
Property letters from Shanghai to Hankow, 13 Apr. 1946-7 Sep. 1954
Property letters from Shanghai to Hankow, 9 Mar. 1928-20 Nov. 1941
Semi-official and other letters from Chungking to London, 1942-1946
Copies of semi-official, property and private and confidential letters from Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd and the Jardine Engineering Corporation Ltd, Chungking, to Matheson & Co. Ltd, London, with enclosed letters and papers. The correspondents are B.D.F. Beith, D.I. Bosanquet, G.P. Charlton, W.S. Dupree, H.Y. Hsu, W.J. Keswick, H.H. Lennox, P. Morrison, J.F. Owen, C.F. Stockar and A. Wright.
Semi-official and other letters from London to Chungking, 1942-1946
Copies of semi-official letters and some property and private and confidential letters from Matheson & Co. Ltd, London, to Jardine Matheson, Chungking, with enclosed letters and papers. The files also include copies of telegrams exchanged between London and Chungking. The correspondents are B.D.F. Beith, D.I. Bosanquet, G.P. Charlton, W.S. Dupree, H.Y. Hsu, W.J. Keswick, H.H. Lennox, J.F. Owen, C.F. Stockar and A. Wright.
Semi-official and private and confidential correspondence between Hankow, Hong Kong, London and Shanghai, 11 Feb. 1938-29 Dec. 1938
Semi-official and property correspondence between Shanghai and Hankow, 1921-1927
Copies of semi-official correspondence between Jardine Matheson, Hankow and Shanghai, with related letters (including property letters), telegrams and other papers, including Hankow monthly reports and financial statements. The Hankow letters are numbered, but those from Shanghai are not. The correspondents include R.M. Austin, G.S. Aveyard, B.D.F. Beith, Cedric C. Boyd, W.S. Dupree, John Johnstone, J.F. Owen, J.J. Paterson, Andrew Ross, A. Brooke Smith and J.C. Taylor.
Semi-official and property correspondence of the Yangtsze Ports, 1920-1927
Semi-official and property letters from Hankow to Shanghai, 1945-1954
Copies of semi-official and some property letters from Jardine Matheson, Hankow, to Jardine Matheson, Shanghai, with enclosed letters and papers. The correspondents are Thomas Beesley, R.H. Box, W.S. Dupree, Captain J. Horner-Smith, A.G. Jacobs and W.J. Wu, Hankow, and R. Gordon, J.H. Keswick, H.H. Lennox and F.A. Pollock, Shanghai.
Semi-official correspondence between New York and Hong Kong, London and Shanghai, 1941-1947
Semi-official correspondence between Shanghai and outports, 1942-1951
Semi-official correspondence between Shanghai and the ports, 1918-1921
Semi-official letters from Calcutta to Chungking, 15 Jan. 1943-9 Nov. 1943
Semi-official letters from Chungking to London, 1942-1946
Semi-official letters from Hankow to Shanghai, 1927-1936
Copies of semi-official letters from Jardine Matheson, Hankow, to Jardine Matheson, Shanghai, with enclosed letters and papers, including annual and monthly agency reports. The correspondents are H.A. Allan, R.M. Austin, B.D.F. Beith, R.E. Coxon, W.S. Dupree, J.P.B. Eastwood, G.M. Jameson, W.J. Keswick, H.H. Lennox, J.J. Paterson, W.B. Rigden, A. Ross and A.E. Smith.
Semi-official letters from Hankow to Shanghai, 1938-1941
Copies of semi-official letters from Jardine Matheson, Hankow, to Jardine Matheson, Shanghai, with enclosed letters and papers. The correspondents are H.A. Allan, W.S. Dupree, J.H. Keswick, W.J. Keswick and F.A. Pollock.