Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Wodehouse, Ernest Hay 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ERNEST HAY WODEHOUSE, Corporation Executive. Ernest H. Wodehouse, son of Major 
James Hay Wodehouse, former British minister resident in the Hawaiian Islands, 
and Annette Fanny Wodehouse, has become a prominent figure in the business 
world of Hawaii. Born in Honolulu, he was educated by tutors. During the 
Monarchy he was a government official for eight years, serving as 
superintendent of the postal savings bank.
  He entered the firm of Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd., in 1895 as an assistant 
bookkeeper, and after a succession of promotions became a director in 1905 and 
a managing director in 1916. Mr. Wodehouse holds public office as president of 
the Territorial Board of Immigration, Labor and Statistics, and as chairman of 
the Board of Prison Inspectors. He was president of the Hawaiian Sugar 
Planters’ Association and the Sugar Factors Co., Ltd., in 1919, and in 1924 
served as vice-president of the latter organization. In addition to his 
executive connection with Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd., Mr. Wodehouse is a 
director of numerous other Hawaiian corporations. He married May Ward, 
daughter of Curtis Perry Ward, in Honolulu. They have one son, Cenric Nourse 
Wodehouse. Mr. Wodehouse is a member of the Oahu Country and Pacific clubs.


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