Watkins, C.T.

Updated October 10, 2014

C.T. Watkins, employees of the British Diplomatic Department, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1848. He worked for the Hong Kong Office of the British Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade as the Third Assistant in 1848.

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

Oakley, Horace

Updated September 21, 2014

Horace Oakley, employee of the British Diplomatic Department, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was an assistant in the Hong Kong Office of the British Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade 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.

Bird, G. Alexander

Updated October 23, 2014

G. Alexander Bird, officer of the British Diplomatic Department, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1845 to 1846. He was the acting Chief Assistant in the Hong Kong Office of the British Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in 1846.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Morrison, Martin C.

Updated September 21, 2014

Martin C. Morrison, officer of the British Diplomatic Department, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was the Chinese Secretary in the Hong Kong Office of the British Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade 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.

Elmslie, Adam Wallis

Updated September 21, 2014

Adam Wallis Elmslie, officer of the British Diplomatic Department, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was the Assistant Secretary in the Hong Kong Office of the British Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in 1846.

Variant names: Adam Wallace Elmslie. Elmslie died in 1875.

Selected Bibliography: Janus: Jardine Matheson Archives [online]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Conner, William

Updated October 29, 2014

William Conner, employee of the British Diplomatic Department, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1845 to 1850. He worked in the Hong Kong Office of the British Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade as the Second Assistant between 1846 and 1848, and as Chief Assistant and Keeper of Records in 1850.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Cleverly, Osmund

Updated August 1, 2014

An opium hulk. Credit: Okinawa Soba, flickr.

Osmund Cleverly, marine surveyor, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1841 to 1860. He was a ship captain, a merchant navy commander, a marine surveyor, an engineer, and the master of opium hulk William Hughes. He was a trustee of the committee of the Protestant Cemetery at Belle View, Macau in 1858. He was the British Consular Agent at Macau in 1860.

Cleverly, the eldest son of Samuel Cleverly, a medical practitioner, and Charlotte Louisa Worrall, was born in Levallois-Perret, France in 1813. He had four younger brothers: Oscar Worall Cleverly (born in1814); M. Frederic Cleverly (born in 1815); Alfred William Cleverly (born in 1817); and Charles Saint George Cleverly 基化厘, who was Hong Kong's Surveyor-General 量地官 from 1842 to 1850. Osmund Cleverly married twice. The first marriage [name of wife unknown] produced two children: Charles Osmund Cleverly (born in Hong Kong in 1842; he married Felicia Vicencia de Barros in Hong Kong on February 3, 1866); and Emily Cleverly. Osmund Cleverly married his second wife, Ellen Fagan, in Chusan (Zhoushan) 舟山 on October 2, 1845. Fagan was the daughter of an army officer, James Fagan of the 58th Regiment. Cleverly and Fagan had three children: Mary Cleverly (born in Ceylon in 1849; she married Louis Du Mesnil de Sommery, Ostend in Belgium in 1871); Alice Louisa Cleverly (born in Hong Kong in 1850); and Ellen Adelaide Cleverly (born in Hong kong in 1853). Osmund Cleverly died in London on June 1, 1861.

Selected Bibliography: Ancestry.co.uk [online]. The Cork Examiner, January 9, 1846. Geneanet [online]. Janus: Jardine Matheson Archive. The London Gazette, August 2, 1872, p.3468.

Bush, Frederick Thomas

Updated October 28, 2014

Frederick Thomas Bush, merchant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1845 to 1850. He was the founder and proprietor of the mercantile firm, Bush & Co.. He was a director of the Hong Kong and Canton Steam Packet Co. in 1850. He was the Consul of the United States of America in Hong Kong in 1850. He was elected Vice President of the Royal Asiatic Society, China Branch in 1850. He sat in a number of committees including the Committee of Management of the Society for Relief of Sick and Destitute Foreigners, and the Board of Trustees and Managing Committee of the Seamen's Hospital in 1850.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, 1850.

Burd, John

Updated October 28, 2014

John Burd, master mariner, merchant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1845 to 1850. He was a name partner in the mercantile firm, Burd, Lange & Co., in 1846. He was the founder and proprietor of the mercantile firm, John Burd & Co., in 1850. He was the Danish Consul in Hong Kong in 1850. He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, China Branch in 1850. Queen's Road West was listed as his address in 1850.

Burd was married to Hannah [maiden name unknown].

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845. Genealogy. com [internet]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, 1850.