The Foundations of Today's Davis Langdon & Seah

摘要

In the early 1930s, among the assistants working in the large Quantity Surveying firm of Horace W Langdon & Every in London, were Frank Angell and Eric Watson, Watson met with David Waters in Singapore and decided to start an independent quantity surveying firm called "Waters and Watson" in 1934. One of their early partners, Seah Mong Hee, was the first Asian Chartered Surveyor (RICS) in the world, having joined Waters & Watson in 1936. When the Japanese invaded Singapore in 1942, the office was closed. However, after the war, Watson and Angell both re-joined Horace W Langdon & Every in London. They were then subsequently asked by Tom Every to re-establish the office in Singapore in 1946.