St. John's Cemetery Individual Record

Jeremy Richard Hargreaves

Jeremy Richard Hargreaves
(March 7, 1932 -- April 2, 2011)

Section: 19
Space: 2
Lot: 25
Spouse: Margery Marple Hargreaves
Place of Birth: Brighton, England
Military: Korean War
Occupation: Business
Comments: Cremation.
Owner: Hargreaves

Jeremy Richard Hargreaves, 79, of Pensacola, died on April 2, 2011. He was born and educated in Brighton, England. As a young man, he was a keen soccer and tennis player. He learned to fly and earned a private pilot's license. He attended a banking college in Oxford, England, and became a Junior Officer with the Westminster Bank. He was later conscripted into the British Army where he first served in HQ Eastern Command in London. Then he served with the airborne forces in Aldershot and finally in Singapore and Malaya during the emergency in the early 1950s. Upon leaving the military and in order to resume his career in banking, he joined the International staff of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) in London, and was transferred to Hong Kong in 1954. Over the next thirty years, he served in Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Hebrides, the Middle East, and India. He retired from his position as CEO India (the British Bank of the Middle East) in 1983. Since retirement, he lived in England, Portugal, Austria, and Pensacola, FL. He is survived by his wife of nineteen years, Margery Pierpont Marple, whom he met in Japan in 1967, and later married in Pensacola in 1992. He treasured his years in Pensacola, and his many friendships here. Also surviving are three children, Soames Edward Hargreaves and wife Debbie of Horsham, England, and their children Anna, Poppy, William, and Grace; Paget Henry Hargreaves of Queensland, Australia and his son, Jas; and Sophie Hayes and husband Stafford, of the Island of Cyprus. He is also survived by his sister and brother- in-law, Wendy and John Glover of Rustington, England, and a brother, Nelson (Bill) and sister-in-law Suzanne of Bude, Cornwall, England. He is also survived by two step-children, Elizabeth Sheldon Siegel of Gaithersburg, MD, and Tedford Warren Cann of Brentwood, TN. A memorial service will be held on Friday, April 15th at 11:00 AM at Christ Episcopal Church at Palafox and Wright Streets. His ashes will be interred at a later time in Wisborough Green, England, and in St. John's Cemetery, Pensacola. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the charity of choice.