Background
Mr. King was born in Nanxing, Zhejiang, China, in 1886.
Mr. King was born in Nanxing, Zhejiang, China, in 1886.
King Soh-tsu G. went to England in 1902 and joined King's College where he specialized in electric engineering.
Mr. King returned to China in 1905 and organized the electric department in the technical school of the Board of Commerce in Peking and became its professor. He was appointed member of the Board of Communications and later joined the Nanyang College for four and a half years as head of the chemical department. In 1911 he again joined the Ministry of Communications. After the first revolution in 1911 King Soh-tsu G. went to Hankou as a managing director of a real estate and trading company there.
In 1916 he went to Peking to engage in business, his principal labors there were in the field of conchology. Mr. King organized the Peking Society of Natural History and the Peking Laboratory of Natural History, becoming president of the former in 1927 and custodian of the latter. King Soh-tsu G. served as a vice-president of the Peking Rotary Club and also vice-president of the Peking Institute of Fine Arts.
(The Shells of Peitaiho [Amadeus and Sohtsu G. King Grabau])
1928