Marques, J.M.

Updated October 10, 2014

J.M. Marques, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1848. He worked in the Registrar General's Office as an interpreter in 1848.

Selected Bibliography: Williams, Samuel Wells (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 17, January to December, 1848. Canton: 1848.

Mattheus, Antonio

Updated October 9, 2014

Antonio Mattheus, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1848. He worked for the Surveyor General's Office as an overseer of convicts in 1848.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Reinacher, Robert

Updated October 9, 2014

Robert Reinacher, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1848. He was the Second Clerk in the Colonial Treasurer's Office in 1848.

Selected Bibliography: Williams, Samuel Wells (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 17, January to December, 1848. Canton: 1848.

Holgate, Henry

Updated September 25, 2014

Henry Holgate, surgeon, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846.

Selected Bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

temp.notes:

Henry Holgate was said to be a surgeon on a merchant ship who went to China in the 1830s. He was one of the first surgeons to work at the British Seaman's Hospital in Whampoa (Huangpu) 黄埔 when it opened in 1836. After having been appointed by Charles Elliot, Administrator of Hong Kong, to the position of Acting Colonial Surgeon in August 1841, Holgate set about his first task -- to establish a Colonial Surgeon's Department. The appointment was, however, quickly disallowed after Elliot was sacked by Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. It is uncleared why his appointment remained in a government notice given in the March 31, 1842 issue of Friend of China.]

A report on the Canton Register, dated October 12, 1841, cited by the New-York American of February 7, 1842, carried Holgate's comments on health conditions in Hong Kong. Might this be Holgate's only official act as the Acting Colonial Surgeon?

"Macao had suffered much from sickness, many of the inhabitants and Chinese having fallen victims to a kind of influenza which was travelling about.

The accounts of sickness at Hong Kong are contradicted. A Mr. Henry Holgate, writing from Hong Kong, under date of the 4th, states that there is no malaria, and that health of the troops has been gradually improving, not any having been ordered on board of the transports. The crews of vessels are very healthy, and in a population of 12,000 Chinese, there have been but 10 deaths in the last four months.”

After his short tenure as a medical official in Hong Kong, Holgate returned to his old job in Whampoa, and became the head of the British Seaman's Hospital on November 28, 1842. He moved to Macau in 1849, and went back to Whampoa in 1851. There was a company existing in Macau in 1842 went by the name of Holgate & Co., which was a ships' agent. Has this to do with Holgate, I have no idea. Henry Holgate was listed as a member of the Chinese Medico-Chirurgical Society (founded on May 13, 1845) in 1846.

Anderson, Alexander

Updated September 25, 2014

Alexander Anderson, surgeon, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1843. He was the Colonial Surgeon of Hong Kong in 1843. He was a Justice of the Peace (official) in 1843^[1].

[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]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Miles, W.H.

Updated October 9, 2014

W.H. Miles, judicial official, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1848. He was the Chief Clerk in the Police Magistracy in 1846. He was the Third Clerk in Colonial Treasurer's Office in 1848.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Bowden, William

Updated October 9, 2014

William Bowden, tavern-keeper, later civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1848. He ran a tavern named London Tavern, which was housed inside Chinam's Hong, in 1846. He worked for Surveyor General's Office as the Inspector of Roads in 1848.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850. Williams, Samuel Wells (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 17, January to December, 1848. Canton: 1848.

Dos Remedios, J.B.

Updated September 20, 2014

J.B. dos Remedios, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was the 3rd clerk in the Post Office in 1846

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Miles, Samuel

Updated September 20, 2014

Samuel Miles, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was the 2nd clerk in the Post Office in 1846.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Dill, Francis

Updated September 20, 2014

Francis Dill, surgeon, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1846. He succeeded Alexander Anderson as the chief medical officer in the Hong Kong Government in 1844, only the name of the position was different. Anderson's was the Hospital Surgeon to the Colony while Dill's was Colonial Surgeon. Dill died suddenly from liver complication (or malarial fever) in October 1846 and was the first Colonial Surgeon to died in office. He was the President of the China Medico-Chirurgical Society (vice Alfred Green Gayton Tucker, deceased) in 1845.

Dill, as in the case of Anderson, was a local recruit; he received a reduced salary of £600 p.a., which was cut back further to £500 in 1845. The primary responsibility of the Colonial Surgeon was to look after policemen and prisoners in the goal. He was permitted to carry on a private practice on the side.

Two months before his death, Francis Dill proclaimed Hong Kong to be the healthiest British Colony in the Orient.

Selected Bibliography: Biographical Dictionary of Medical Practitioners in Hong Kong: 1841-1941 [online]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

De Noronha, F.

Updated September 20, 2014

F. de Noronha, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was the sub-Collector of Police Rate in 1846.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Stevenson, James

Updated October 10, 2014

James Stevenson, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1848. He worked for the Registrar General's Office as a clerk between 1846 and 1848.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Inglis, A.L.

Updated October 10, 2014

A.L. Inglis, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1851. He was the acting Registrar General (vice Samuel Fearon) in 1846 and became the Registrar General in 1848. He was the Assistant Harbor Master in 1851. He went to California for the gold rush in 1851. He was a Freemason and belonged to the Royal Sussex Lodge.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Fearon, Samuel

Updated September 20, 2014

Samuel Fearon, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was the Registrar General of Hong Kong in 1846.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Kinnaird, T.

Updated September 19, 2014

T. Kinnaird, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He worked for the Surveyor General's office as a time-keeper in 1846.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Crawford, J.

Updated September 19, 2014

J. Crawford, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He worked for the Surveyor General's Office as the Overseer of Masonry in 1846.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Bruce, Murdoch

Updated September 19, 2014

Murdoch Bruce, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He worked for the Surveyor General's Office as the Overseer of Roads, and Superintendent of Convict Labor in 1846.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Harrison, G.E.

Updated October 10, 2014

G.E. Harrison, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1848. He worked for the Surveyor General's Office as a clerk between 1846 and 1848. He, together with Charles May, were the Joint Assessors and Collectors of Police Rate in 1848.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850. Williams, Samuel Wells (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 17, January to December, 1848. Canton: 1848.

Pope, John

Updated October 29, 2014

John Pope, civil engineer, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1848. He worked for the Surveyor General's Office as clerk of works and engineer between 1844 and 1848. He was also listed separately as a civil engineer having Aberdeen Street as his address in 1846. He and William Tarrant were the Joint Assessors and Collectors of Police Rate in 1846. He was a Freemason and belonged to the Royal Sussex Lodge.

Pope married Clarissa Rosa Cobham, only daughter of Thomas Cobham, of Ware, Hertfordshire, in Hong Kong on August 6, 1845.

Selected Bibliography: The Spectator (London), November 1, 1845, p.19. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Gordon, Alexander Thomas

Updated October 11, 2014

Alexander Thomas Gordon, architect, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1843 to 1846. He was the Surveyor General of Hong Kong between 1843 and 1846. He was a Justice of the Piece in 1843^[1]. Gordon designed the Seamen's Hospital which opened 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 [online]. Hong Kong Institute of Architects [online]. Lam Chung-wai, Tony, From British Colonization to Japanese Invasion, the 100 Years Architects in Hong Kong 1841-1941. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.