Sometime in 1990's I landed at the Los Angeles Airport in transit to Lafayette to visit the Catterpilar Factory . So I boarded a limousine [more like a luxurious full size van] from LAX to take me to a hotel on the outskirts of the city. On this long journey the driver was actually happy that my entourage came from Malaysia. He said that his father used to be a head of a university in Penang. He could not remember the name of the University but upon my insistence to know who his illustious father was , he gave his business card on which was printed ...Hargreave. As a student at MCKK I remembered that there was a portrait of a Mr Hargreave hanging somewhere [ the Hall or the Library] , I told him the university that he referred to could actually be my old college -The Malay College. Anyway he could not be certain. He further explained that he was driving the van merely for 'money for marketing for sundry stuff'. He is actually an investor in an enterprise trying to create 'artificial blood' Then 'interferon' was the only artificial blood available and in the evening he would take a part time job. And his fellow investors weresome guys from Penang.
Incidentally, in 1979/80 I used to stay by Scotland Road in Penang and on the way to work I would pass Jalan Hargreave to reach my office in Bayan Lepas.And each time I paseed the road I cannot but be awed by the man I saw in the graduation gown whose picture hang somewhere in MCKK.
Interesting ha.. So if anybody can remember of the Hargreave that the man told me , could post a comment in this blog.
Re: The Day I Met Mr Hargreave Jr
William Hargreaves Esq. was HM of the PFS before being transferred to the MRS (renamed later MCKK) in 1905. He would have been at least 50 in 1905 basing on his white moustache.
If he were to be alive in the 1990's, he would have been around 140 years old. Assuming that cab driver is actually his son, I would assume that the son would be in his 90's, an improbability.
Maybe he had meant that the William Hargreaves was his grandfather.
PFS the oldest English school in Southeast Asia has a few of the earlier British Headmasters honoured with roads named after them. They are inter alia Jalan Pinhorn, Jalan Cheeseman, Jalan Hargreaves all in the vicinity of the PFS.
Its founding Headmaster, the Rev Hutchings has a school along Light Street named after him. That school building previously housed the PFS before its relocation to the Green Lane (renamed Jalan Masjid Negeri). Now that original PFS building is converted to the present Penang State Museum building owing to its historical significance. Hutchings School is moved to a location behind the State Museum.
Jalan Hargreaves in KK which the Prep School fronted is now renamed Jalan Tun Razak.