Yule, John Alexander (Celtic [Edinburgh & Leith])

Updated March 23, 2015

[Entered Celtic Lodge 291 (October 20, 1857).]

Yule was born in Scotland in 1837. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. He joined the British Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon on October 20, 1859. Yule came to Hong Kong no later than 1864 as he was appointed Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital on June 21, 1864 (vice John Dollman, new appointment as Health Officer and Surgeon, Stone Cutters' Island Convict Hulk). He resigned in November the same year. Yule died on board SS Euxine on the homeward passage from Hong Kong on April 10 (or 16), 1866.

Yule was born to John Yule Jr. (d. May 15, 1851), Writer of Signet, and J. Morrison Browne (d. August 29, 1870), daughter of Robert Browne and Marion Morrison. Yule had two daughters, Jane Yule and Georgiana Yule. #11 St John Street, Edinburgh was listed as Yule's address in 1857.

Biographical Dictionary of Medical Practitinoers in Hong Kong: 1841-1941 [online].

Rienaecker, Robert (Zetland)

Updated March 23, 2015

[Secretary, Zetland Lodge 525 (1850).]

Rienaecker worked for the Colonial Treasury and Revenue Office as book-keeper between 1846 and 1850. He was listed as a member of the Committee of the Victoria Library and Reading Room in 1850.

Selected bibliography: Biographical Dictionary of Residents of Hong Kong, the First 10 Years (1841-1850) [online].

Marsh, T.W. (Zetland)

Updated March 23, 2015

[Junior Warden, Zetland Lodge 525 (1850).]
Marsh worked as a clerk in the Post Office in 1850.

Selected bibliography: Biographical Dictionary of Residents of Hong Kong, the First 10 Years (1841-1850) [online].

MacDonnel, Richard Graves 麥當奴 (Provincial Grand Lodge of South Australia, IC)

Updated March 23, 2015

MacDonnel was the 6th Governor of Hong Kong (1866-72).

Selected bibliography: South Australia Register (Adelaide), March 4, 1862, p.3.

Lena, Alexander

Updated March 22, 2015

Lena was the Assistant Harbor Master in 1846. He worked for the Census and Registration Office as an assistant in 1850. Lena probably was the only Italian employed by the Hong Kong Government in the 1840-50's.

Selected bibliography: Biographical Dictionary of Residents of Hong Kong, the First 10 Years (1841-1850) [online].

Jordan, Gregory Paul

Updated March 22, 2015

[Member, Board of Trustees of the Hong Kong and South China Masonic Benevolence Fund (1893, at the time when an application was made to the Legislative Council to incorporate the Fund).]

temp. notes:

Gregory Paul Jordan

Jordan, Gregory Paul (1885-1921)
(updated August 27, 2013) b. February 6, 1858, Calcutta – d. December 4, 1921, London. Edinburgh Univ., MB August 2, 1880; CM October 21, 1884. Studied in Vienna and Paris, and at St. Thomas’s Hospital. Registered to practice Hong Kong June 6, 1885. Private practitioner, name partner, Drs. Adams and Jordan 1885-89+, address: Pedder Street 1885-89 (the practice would evolve into Drs. Anderson & Partners); principal partner, Drs. Jordan, Forsyth, Grove & Aubrey 1921-24+, address: Alexandra Building 1921-24+. HKGov., Provisional Health Officer of the Port and Inspector of Immigrants (vice William Stanley Adams, resigned) May 1, 1888; Surgeon-Superintendent of Police ca.1914-18. Consulting Surgeon, Alice Memorial Hospital. HKBMA, co-founder and inaugural Secretary September 1886. HKCMC, member of Founding Committee 1887; lecturer in Eye Diseases 1903-12; head of Surgical Department 1889-96. HKU, first Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1913-21; first professor, Tropical Medicine 1915-21; acting Chancellor 1918-12; life member of University Court since 1911; University Senate 1912. Freemasony: first Grand Master, District Grand Lodge, Hong Kong and South China November 3, 1904 - 1921. Club: Hong Kong Club. Residence: #36 Caine Road 1885-1888+. Left Hong Kong for England due to ill-health 1921. Honor: Hon.LLD, HKU 1921; naming of Jordan Road in Kowloon [1].
[Jordan was the nephew of Paul Chater, Hong Kong’s first property tycoon.]
[1] Six Street and Gascoigne Road South was renamed Jordan Road on March 19, 1909.  Gascoigne Road 加士居道 is named after Major-General William Julius  Gascoigne, Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong and Hong Kong's last Lieutenant Governor 1898-1902.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 6, 1885, Notice; March 19, 1909, Notice #184; June 2, 1911, Appt. #163. Mellor, Bernard, Lugard in Hong Kong: Empire, Education and A Governor at Work, 1907-1912, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1992.

[2] HKCMC teaches transferred to the staff of the Faculty of Medicine, HKU in 1912 were: Francis William Clark, Charles Forsyth, Arthur C. Franklin, Gregory Paul Jordan, Frederick Theobald Keyt, Wilfred Vincent Miller Koch, Harold MacFarlane, Oswald Marriott and Wilfred William Pearse.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 1, 1893, p.255.

Inglis, A.L. (Perseverance)

Updated March 22, 2015

Inglis 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.

Selected bibliography: Biographical Dictionary of Residents of Hong Kong, the First 10 Years (1841-1850) [online].

Eitel, E.J.

Updated December 27, 2014

Selected bibliography: Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch [online].

Eccleshall, Sidney (Naval & Military)

Updated December 27, 2014

[Worshipful Master, Naval and Military Lodge 848 (1920, 1922). Deputy District Grand Master; Honorary Junior Grand Deacon, Hong Kong and South China EC (1939)]
Eccleshall He was a Sanitary Inspector first appointed probably in 1932. He was authorized to perform vaccination by the Hong Kong Government on December 20, 1940. He was enlisted in the Hong Kong Defense Reserve on January 25, 1940 under Key-Posts Group, and was reassigned to Combatant Group on July 10, 1940. He was interned at the Stanley Camp during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. He, together with A. Tarbuck, R. Cunningham, W.H. Bailey, J.N. Fitzgerald, and several others were the only Freemasons allowed to hold meetings inside an internment camp in Hong Kong. He was a member of the [British] Royal Sanitary Institute. Eccleshall died in 1948.

[There was a Sidney Eccleshall who was with the British Royal Army Medical Corps (service #7194) and served in World War One. I wonder if they were related.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 26, 1940, #105; July 12, 1940, #785; December 20, 1940, #1371. Lives of the First World War [online]. The Skirret, A Brief History of the District Grand Lodge of the Far East, 1961, Lodge Naval and Military No.848, p.1. The Sydney Morning Herald, October 16, 1948, p.10

Cullen, W. (United Service)

Updated December 25, 2014

W. Cullen was very likely William Francis Cullen who was a sanitary inspector between 1902 and 1907 (or in later years), and was probably the father of Fred Cullen, who had a son also named William Francis Cullen. W.F. Cullen served in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defense Corps as a sapper in the Engineer Company between 1904 and 1908.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Civil Establishments, 1902, 1907. Hong Kong Government, Report on the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, Training Season 1904-05, 1905-06, 1907-08. Hong Kong Telegraph, December 9, 1904, p.4, United Service Lodge.

Cleverly, Charles Siant George 基化厘

Updated December 24, 2014

temp. notes:

Charles Siant George Cleverly 基化厘, architect, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1842 to 1865. He was the acting Assistant Surveyor General of Hong Kong in 1846.  He was the Surveyor General 量地官 between 1847 and 1865. He was a trustee of the St. John's Church in 1850 as well a council of the Royal Asiatic Society, China Branch in the same year. Cleverly retired in 1865 due to ill health. He received his first pension payment of £416 from the Hong Kong Government on April 28, 1865. Cleverly was responsible for the designs of the following landmark buildings: Government House (1854), Old Stanley Police Station (1859), St. John's Cathedral (1849), and Zetland Hall (1853).

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online].

Chan Tai-kwong 陳大光

Updated December 23, 2014

temp. notes:

Chan Tai-kwong 陳大光 - b.1827-d.1882; a protégé of the first Bishop of Victoria, George Smith; trained to be an evangelist (1850); while placed under probation before being ordained as a priest, licensed by the Bishop to peach to prisoners in the Victoria Goal; appointed assistant tutor in the St. Paul’s College where the Bishop served as the warden, despite the fact that Chan was deficient in both Chinese and English languages; quitted working for the church and took a job as a government interpreter (1856); became an Opium Farmer, a term used at the time to refer to the holder of the Opium Monopoly of the right to prepare and sell opium (1858); implicated in the corruption investigation of Acting Colonial Secretary William Thomas Bridges; caught in financial problems and disappeared from Hong Kong (1858); reappeared in 1867 and took over from Ng Choy 伍才as the Chinese Clerk and Shroff to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, a position he held until his death in 1882; member, General Committee of the Tung Wah Hospital; Chan Tai-Kwong would very likely be the first Hong Kong Chinese to be initiated a Freemason

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online].

Blake, Henry Arthur 卜力 (Quatuor Coronati Lodge)

Updated December 21, 2014

[District Grand Master, Ceylon Freemasons]
Blake was the 12th Governor of Hong Kong (1898-1903)

Selected bibliography: blake-world.com [online]. Transaction of Quatuor Coronati Lodge [online].

Baker, Henry George (United Service)

Updated December 19, 2014

[Worshipful Master, United Service Lodge 1341 (1905)]
Baker joined the Hong Kong Police Force on September 5, 1882. He was made Chief Inspector of Police and Assistant Superintendent of Fire Brigade on April 18, 1903.

Selected bibliography: The China Mail, December 9, 1905, p.4, United Service Lodge

Ayres, Philip Bernard Chenery (Perseverance)

Updated December 19, 2014

[Master, Perseverance Lodge 1165 (1883)]

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Telegraph, November 23, 1882.

temp. notes:

MRCS, LM (Eng.); LRCP (Edin.) August 1, 1865. Hong Kong 1873. Hong Kong Government, Colonial Surgeon November 4, 1873. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 3, 1884 through 1888. Residence: #27 Caine Road 1884.

[Ayres was one of the first nine doctors who registered as medical practitioners in Hong Kong immediately following the enactment of the "Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884" that required all doctors to be licensed before they could treat patients for monetary reward. The nine were: William Stanley Adams, Philip Bernard Chenery Ayres, Johann Gerhard Heinrich Gerlach, Antonio Simplieio Gomes, William M. Hartigan, John H. Lockhead, Patrick Manson, James Stockwell, and Richard Young.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, November 8, 1873, Notice #172; May 3, 1884, Notice; May 5, 1888, Notice #181.

The last Colonial Surgeon (1873-1897)

Philip Bernard Chenery Ayres

b.July 13, 1840 Oxfordshire – d. October 12, 1899 Kent; son of Philip Burnard Ayres (M.D., London; Chief Medical Officer of the Civil Hospital, Mauritius; lecturer in chemistry at Charing Cross Hospital); M.R.C.S.Eng; M.L.R.C.P.Edin; government medical officer posted in Mauritius and India; arrived in Hong Kong (November 1873) to take up the position of Colonial Surgeon and Inspector of Hospitals (and would become the longest serving Colonial Surgeon – twenty four years); the following establishment were under the purview of the Colonial Surgeon: Police, Troops, Government Civil Hospital, Tung Wah Hospital, Victoria Gaol, Lock Hospital, Health of the Colony, and Sanitation, the Lunatic Asylum was added in 1884 when it as established; annual salary GBP600, allowed to carry on private practice whilst holding the public office aiming to make up the difference of GBP200 ( Ayres had asked for GBP800 per year); oversight the opening of the Government Civil Hospital; instituted the nursing staff of trained nurses from the London Hospital (1889); played a pivotal role in fostering a higher standard in sanitation including institutionalized the Sanitary Board (1883); handled the epidemic of Plague (1894); Master of the Hong Kong Masonic Order, Officer of the District Grand Lodge of China; health began to fail in 1895; home leave (1896, this is the first and only home leave Ayres had ever took since arriving in 1873); retired (1897); died two years later at the age of 59; wrote in his last report before retiring, "What all my reports could not do the epidemic has done.", referring to the drastic improvement in sanitation standard following the epidemic; after his retirement, the position of Colonial Surgeon was changed to Principal Civil Medical Officer.

Annual Salary of some government officials in 1875 (in GBP)

Chief Judge	2,500
Puisne Judge	1,700
Attorney General	1,000
Postmaster General	900
Registrar General	800
Captain Superintendent of Police	800
Superintendent of the Gaol	700
Colonial Surgeon	600

(It will be interesting to find out why the Postmaster General was so generously paid...)

Ainslie, David Hunter (Zetland)

Updated December 18, 2014

temp. note:
Hong Kong nlt.1860. Hong Kong Government, Acting Colonial Surgeon (vice John Ivor Murray, absence on leave) December 15, 1860 - May 8, 1861.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, December 22, 1860, Notice #143; May 11, 1861, Notice #53.

Adams, William Stanley (St. John's)

Updated December 18, 2014

[Deputy District Grand Master, Hong Kong and South China, E.C. (1882)]

temp. notes:
The Forefather of Drs. Anderson & Partners.

Name variations: William Stanley Stanley-Adams [1]. b.1842, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire - d. January 10, 1898, Brentford, Middlesex. MD, CM (Glas.) April 15, 1862. Hong Kong nlt.1864. RS, Seamen's Hospital 1864-73. Hong Kong Government, Health Officer of the Port (vice James Orr Henderson, resigned) April 21, 1868; Medical Inspector of Emigrants April 21, 1868. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 3, 1884 through 1892. Private practitioner 1887-92; founder, Drs. Adams and Jordan 1885 [or 1887], address: Pedder Street 1887-89; the practice would evolve into Drs. Anderson & Partners. Hon. Assistant Surgeon, HKVDC July 23, 1864. Trustee, St. John's Cathedral May 4, 1885 and May 3, 1886. JP (unofficial) February 21, 1885. Residence: Forest Lodge, #11 Caine Road 1884. Retired, Edmonton, Middlesex 1892. General Council, Glasgow Univ.[n.d.].

s/o John Adams, b.ca.1815-d.1891.
m. Sussy Blanche Mary Hugo [2].

[Adams was one of the first nine doctors who registered as medical practitioners in Hong Kong immediately following the enactment of the "Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884" that required all doctors to be licensed before they could treat patients for monetary reward. The nine were: William Stanley Adams, Philip Bernard Chenery Ayres, Johann Gerhard Heinrich Gerlach, Antonio Simplieio Gomes, William M. Hartigan, John H. Lockhead, Patrick Manson, James Stockwell, and Richard Young.]

[Adams was said to have held the position of Colonial Surgeon, but I found no other references to confirm this. The only thing I could find that linked him to the top medical office in Hong Kong was that he lived next door to Philip Bernard Chenery Ayres, Hong Kong's last Colonial Surgeon (1873-1897, the position was renamed Principal Civil Medical Officer following Ayres' retirement). Ayres lived in a house called Dinder, #13 Caine Road.]

[1] Adams had his named changed to William Stanley Stanley-Adams while sojourning in Hong Kong, for unknown reason(s).

[2] Adams married Susan (Sussy) Blanche Mary Hugo (b. April 11, 1848, Jersey, Channel Islands - d. Jan 28, 1940, Heston, Middlesex) at St. John's Cathedral in Hong Kong in 1867. Hugo was the daughter of Harper Richard Hugo and Blanche Leggatt. Adams and Hugo had eight children: Hilda Agneta Bertha Stanley-Adams, Blanche J. Adams, Maude Beatrice Stanley-Adams, Stanley Hugo Stanley-Adams, Mabel Gertrude Adams, Percy Hugo Adams, Ethel Constance Adams, and Herbert Hugo St. Leger Stanley-Adams. They were all born in Hong Kong where the family lived in a house named Forest Lodge at #11 Caine Road. Julia Hugo, Susan's sister, lived with the family in 1885. Her husband, William Kaye, worked for the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in London.

Selected bibliography: Chronicle Directory for China, Japan, & The Philippines (1872) Hong Kong: Daily Press. Family Tree of Edna Killick and Terry Smith [internet]. Dennys, Nicholas Belfield (Ed.) The Treaty Ports of China and Japan, a Complete Guide to the Open Ports of those Countries, together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1867. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 9, 1864, Notice #63; July 23, 1864, Notice #119; April 25, 1868, Notice #47; February 27, 1869, Notice #20; May 3, 1884, Notice; February 21, 1885, Notice #73; May 9, 1885, Notice #188; May 8, 1886, Notice #159; May 7, 1892, Notice #206. Hugo, F.H.M. (Ed.) A Pedigree of The Family of Hugo of St. Feock, Co. Cornwall, Guernsey: Frederick Clarke, 1932. Private Residences of the Principal Government Officials, the Leading Merchants, the Consuls, Professional Men, and Justices of the Peace (1884), Hong Kong: Daily Press, pp.398-399. University of Glasgow › Biography of William Stanley Adams [internet].

Selected bibliography: Biographical Dictionary of Medical Practitioners in Hong Kong: 1841-1941 [online]. Hong Kong Telegraph, December 12, 1882, p.2.