Charles Batten Hillier, judicial official, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1850. He was the Assistant Magistrate of Police in 1846, and was the Chief Magistrate of Police in 1850. He was a Justice of the Peace (official) between 1843 and 1850[1]. He sat in a number of committees including the Committee of Supervision of the Government Chinese Free Schools at Victoria, Aberdeen and Stanley, 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. He was the Recording Secretary of the Morrison Education Society in 1850. Caine Road was listed as his address in 1850.
Hillier was the British Vice Consul in Macau in 1843.
[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 [internet]. 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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