Robert Dundas Cay, judicial official, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1855. He was the Registrar of the Supreme Court as well as the Vice Admiralty Court between 1844 and 1855. He was the Auditor of the Trustees of St. John's Church in 1850. He sat in a number of committees including the Standing Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; and the Standing Committee of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1850.
Cay, born on August 20, 1807, was the youngest son of Robert Hodshon Cay, of North Charlton, and Elizabeth Liddell. R.H. Cay was the Judge of the high Court of Adminarlty. Cay was apprentice to David Welsh. Cay married Isabella Dyce, the fourth daughter of medical practitioner William Dyce, of Cuttlehill, Aberdeenshire, on October 29, 1835. Cay was admitted as a member of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet on March 7, 1833. He died on March 19, 1888.
Selected Bibliography: A History of the Society of the Writers to Hre Majesty's Signet, with a List of the Members of the Society from 1594 to 1890, Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univertiy Press, 1890. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, 1850.
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