Trig was born in Christchurch, Hants, England on October 20th,
1923 and lived his early years in Southbourne
(CLICK HERE FOR FAMILY TREE). Just before he turned four, in 1926, his father,
EWTH (PORTRAIT), died. Three and a half years later, his mother, Elsie Hoare,
née Hooper PORTRAIT),
also died, leaving Trig, not yet seven, an orphan.
Cared for by guardians, his education was seen to by the Masons (his
father had been very active in Masonic work), and from 1932 to 1940, he
was a boarder at the Royal Masonic Public School.
Trig has few
memories of his father: that he drove an
open car, that he was known around town as "the youngest old man we ever
knew", that he had the reputation of being a most charming and popular
person, particularly with the ladies. Trig
does recall several other individuals in the
Bournemouth area who helped look after him after his parents died,
mostly Masons: Mr
C R Blissett, a chartered accountant, and the Reverends Goddard and Bloomfield
(who was plump, Trig remembers, and rode a tricycle!).
One of Trig's early recollections
is particularly intriguing. Apparently from
out of the blue, a man called Sidney West appeared at the Royal Masonic School in a chauffer-driven limousine.
It was just after Trig's 10th birthday day in 1933. West asked for a tour
of the premises, specifying that Trig be his guide.
It was only six and a half years later, in 1940, when Trig was departing
for Canada, that he was told that West had at that time offered to adopt
him, officially, with full financial and social support.
The school had forwarded this offer to Trig's official guardian,
Clifford Hooper, his mother's youngest brother, a resident of Canada, with a strong endorsement, but Clifford wrote back refusing permission. (In conjunction with our research into EWTH's life,
we've identified Sidney West and explored his history and ancestry (CLICK FOR THE
WEST NARRATIVE), but no explanation for his interest
in Trig, nor any connection between the West and Hoare families - West
was not a
Mason - has yet been found.)
In 1940, Trig was sent
abroad to his guardian in Canada. It was
during the exodus of English children from London at the time of the
blitz. He left Liverpool in April 1940 aboard
the "Duchess of Bedford" (several months later, the ship "City of Benares",
on a similar mission, was torpedoed and sunk, ending the British program
of evacuating children to Canada -
CLICK FOR ARTICLE). After
he arrived in Canada, he made his way on his own, at age 16, by train,
via Montreal and Toronto, to St Catharine's, Ontario, to his uncle's
farm, where to his dismay he was treated as an indentured servant
and was worked 6 1/2 days a week.
In September 1940, Trig
was enrolled as a day student in the Bishop Ridley College, St Catharine's,
which he attended until June 1941, his tuition paid for by money left
him by his mother's father (though uncle Clifford claimed credit). He continued working on the farm that summer, but
in September he finally became so desperate that, with but two Canadian
dollars in his pocket, he ran away.
He soon found a job with
a road construction gang which paid him $20 a week, enough to keep him
until, in December, he started working as assistant to the Chemical Engineer
of the Lightening Fastener Company of St Catharine's (thus establishing
his initial career orientation).
In 1942, Trig joined the RCAF, and was taught navigation at London, Ontario, graduating at the top of his class as a Pilot Officer, Navigator. After further training in Canada, he was sent to England for operational training, and was then assigned to the 427 Squadron as navigator for the squadron leader.
(See http://www.rcaf.com/squadrons/400series/427squadron.php )
He completed his tour
of operations in Europe, which included night and day bombing trips
as well as night mining trips, and in the process was promoted to Flying
Officer and later to Flight Lieutenant.
After being discharged
from the RCAF 1946, Trig entered McGill University in Montreal to study
Chemical Engineering, and in 1947 was awarded the "Jane Redpath Scholarship"
as top student in first year studies. He accepted
an invitation to join the honor students' fraternity, Phi Epsilon Alpha,
earned a letter for playing English Rugby, and graduated in 1951 with
honors. He spent the summers of 1949, 1950 and
1951 with the RCAF Air Material Command in Ottawa.
On June 1st 1951, Trig
married Irene M. Gardiner in the McGill University Chapel. In September of that year, he started his career with
Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati. At that time
he stopped using "Treadaway-Hoare" as his last name, reducing it simply to
"Treadaway".
After Trig had gained
experience in running production departments in Cincinnati, he was posted,
in March 1953, to P&G's Philippine Manufacturing Company (PMC),
in Manila, as Oil Mill Supervisor. It was
there that he became actively involved with entomology, focusing specifically
on Philippine lepidoptera. And it was there,
in November 1953, that his first child, Alexandra,
was born.
Trig's career progressed
well. In April 1954 he was appointed the personnel
manager of the PMC. He subsequently was sent
for further training in production management to P&G's subsidiary
in Venezuela, and in February 1955 returned to the PMC to be made Supervisor
of the Soap Group.
In January 1956 the family
was transferred to P&G Indonesia, where Trig was given the responsibility
of Manufacturing Manager of the subsidiary, and in early 1958 was made
acting General Manager. In February 1958, his
wife returned to the more modern medical facilities of Manila to give birth
to Andrew, their second child.
In mid 1958, Trig was
sent to P&G Peru to become familiar with the processes of starting
up of P&G operations in a developing country (P&G's Philippine
subsidiary was a fully mature business). In
September 1958, Trig became manager of P&G's subsidiary in Morocco,
responsible for the company's business there, and in particular for establishing
its manufacturing operation: purchasing land
for the factory, building it, and starting it up.
In September 1960, Trig
was assigned responsibility for creating the manufacturing arm of P&G's
new subsidiary in Germany: acquiring land,
hiring staff, and overseeing plant construction.
This initiative in Germany was a major undertaking for P&G,
and from the startup on, proved to be a most successful one; the German subsidiary quickly reached a size larger
than that of the entire worldwide P&G corporation less than a generation
earlier. As the business grew, Trig's responsibilities
did as well. At different times, he managed not
just the company's Manufacturing function, but also Personnel, Public Relations,
Traffic, and Buying. Eventually, in 1978, he
was appointed Director of the company (Arbeitsdirektor, P&G GmbH),
and was made a member of the board.
During this segment of
his life in Germany, his personal situation evolved.
In February 1971 he divorced Irene and in October of that year, married
Waltraud Warnecke. A year later, in November
1972, their daughter Steffi was born.
This period also saw
Trig's entomological avocation reach new levels when, in 1981, he was appointed
an honorary member of the Senckenberg Research Institute.
In 1987 Trig retired
from P&G GmbH. The family moved from Frankfurt
am Main to the village of Wagenschwend in Baden Württemberg, located
in a rural area near Heidelberg, where Trig had had a house built. After his retirement, he became even more deeply
involved in the study of Philippine Lepidoptera. In
association with the Senckenberg, he made research trips almost every year
to the Philippines, camping for weeks
in jungles. He
had many notable adventures, some quite challenging, involving encounters
with pirates, guerilla groups (Communists, Islamist extremists, and the notorious
"Huks"), as well as a wide variety of "interesting" animals and snakes. In 2003 he was appointed honorary staff member of
the Malaysian University, Sarawak, North Borneo.
During the period of
1980 to 2005, Trig participated in the publishing of over 100 journal articles
in Japan, Germany, Holland, England and the Philippines, mostly on butterflies
and moths of the Philippines, covering over 300 holotypes (single specimens designated as defining a newly discovered
species or subspecies). In addition, he
took part in publishing the following books:
- "Hesperiidae of
the Philippines", by de Jong and Treadaway, 1993
- "Checklist of the Butterflies of the Philippines"
by C G Treadaway, 1995
- "Contributions to the Knowledge of the Insects
of the Philippines", Treadaway CG being substantially involved as co-editor
and co-contributor, 1998
- "Papilionidae of the Philippine Islands", by
Page, MP, and Treadaway, CG, 2003
- "Papilionidae of the Philippine Islands" supplement,
by Page, MP, and Treadaway, CG, 2004
- For the Zoological
Society of London in Animal Conservation, a key article "Priority Conservation
Areas for Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)
in the Philippines", published in 2004 by Danielson, F. and Treadaway,
C. G., copies of which were requested by a number of universities around
the world.
- "Amathusiini of the Philippine Islands", by Schroeder
and Treadaway, 2005
The family continues
to reside in Wagenschwend, where Trig is kept quite busy not only writing
and publishing scholarly works, but also serving as consultant in his field
to museums and universities around the world.
Aside
from the events of his professional career and of his family life, and
the accomplishments of his entomological his avocation, it is noteworthy
that Trig also is possessed of his father’s considerable social skills:
graciousness, urbanity, easy charm (think a cross between Fred Astaire and
David Niven - CLICK FOR PICTURE),
and, like EWTH, a most ingratiating way with ladies.