Dr. F. L. Pinching Dead
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THE death occurred on June 30 at Summer Hill, Sydney, of Dr. Frank Lawley Pinching, at the advanced age of 88. He was very well known in the Solomons. He was born in Ireland, the son of a doctor, and he and every one of his eleven brothers and one sister became qualified medical practitioners.
He served in the Matabele and Boer Wars; he was a fellow-prisoner of Dr.
Jameson; and his friend Cecil Rhodes sent him to England to study an obscure fever which was causing concern in Africa. Later, he went to Nauru as a native commissioner; and then he joined his old friend, Mr. Workman, then Resi dent Commissioner in the British Solomons, as a labour inspector. He transferred to the Levers Plantations ser vice, .in the Solomons, as a medical offi cer, and remained with Levers until he retired about 10 years ago. He held some of the highest degrees in Freemasonry.