Updated October 14, 2014
Peter Young, surgeon, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1850. He was ship surgeon of the barque King William and later became a private practitioner in Hong Kong. He was a partner in Hong Kong Dispensary, which was located at Queen's Road, in 1846. He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, China Branch in 1850. He was a member of the Board of Trustees and Managing Committee of the Seamen's Hospital in 1850. He was one of the three coadjutors of the Union Church in 1850. He was a Justice of the Peace from 1843 to 1846
[1]. D'Aguilar Street was listed as his address in 1850.
Six medical practitioners were listed in the 1850 Hong Kong Almanack and Directory, arranged according to priority of residence. They were:
Peter Young,
George Kingston Barton,
Thomas Hunter,
Andrew Howden Balfour,
William T. Morrison and
Nicolet Michel Clerjon.
Peter Young was the brother of
James H. Young.
[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.
Don't forget to add “HKR 1841-50” to your subject blank when you email me. I have a habit of deleting messages from people I don't know, and I don't want to throw away yours. Thank you.
The most boring task of compiling a biographical dictionary, speaking from my very limited experience, is to list up all the names and attach the most basic of information in each entry. My bases for this phase of the project lie upon three volumes of “The Hong Kong Almanack and Dictionary” viz. 1846, 1848 and 1850, which were compiled by William Tarrent, editor of The Friend of China. I hope I am able to get this done say within a couple of weeks and move into the next, and clearly a much more interesting, phase in which I will begin researching the individuals. (8/3/2014)
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