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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Claude William
Kinder C.M.G., was an English engineer. For over thirty years he was
engineer-in-chief of the Kaiping Tramway and Imperial Railways of North
China. Claude William Kinder was the third son of Major Thomas William
Kinder who served as Master of the Hong Kong Mint from 1863-1868 and the
Director of the Imperial Japanese Mint in Osaka between 1870 and 1875.
Tutored by his father, Claude later studied railway engineering in St.
Petersburg before obtaining his first professional appointment as an
assistant engineer with Imperial Japanese Railways in 1873.