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, nŽe 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 WŸrttemberg, 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
After Trig and
Waltraud's daughter Steffi married John Ambler in 2002, and
relocated to England, Trig and Waltraud continued to reside in
Wagenschwend, where Trig 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.
When Waltraud passed away in 2015, Trig moved to England to
live with his daughter and her husband.
In 2019, Trig was awarded any honorary doctorate by the
University of Darby. Click here for his
gem of an acceptance speech.
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
fatherÕs considerable social skills: graciousness,
urbanity, easy charm (think a cross between Fred Astaire and
David Niven - CLICK
FOR PICTURE), and, like EWTH,
possessed of a most ingratiating way with ladies.