William Pedder, British Royal Navy Officer, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1842 to 1850. He was a lieutenant of the British Royal Navy, acting as chief officer of the HEIC ship Nemesis during the First Opium War. He was appointed Marine Magistrate and Harbor Master on July 31, 1841; he kept the position until 1850. He was a Justice of the Peace (official) between 1843 and 1850[1]. He sat in the Committee of Management of the Society for Relief of Sick and Destitute Foreigners in 1850.
Military records, Royal Navy, Rank: enter April 5, 1814, Lieutenant 1824.
[1] He was one of the first 44 Justices of Peace ever to be appointed in Hong Kong. Their appointments were announced by Henry Pottinger on the fifth day after he had sworn in as the first Colonial Governor. The date was June 30 ,1843.
Selected Bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online]. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia, May - August, 1841, London: William H. Allen & Co., 1841. Royal Navy Biography 1849 [online]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846,1848 and 1850.
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