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Tuesday, March 24, 2015 0 comments

Wu Lai-woon (Hu Liyuan) 胡禮垣

Updated March 25, 2015

Wu was the father of Woo Pak-chuen 胡百全.

Selected bibliography: Choa, G.H., The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai, The Chinese University Press, 2000, p.27.


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Woo Pak-chuen 胡百全

Updated March 25, 2015

Woo was the son of Wu Lai-woon 胡禮垣.

Selected bibliography: Choa, G.H., The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai, The Chinese University Press, 2000, p.27.


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Wei Yuk

Updated March 25, 2015


Selected bibliography: Choa, G.H., The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai, The Chinese University Press, 2000, p.27.
Sunday, March 22, 2015 0 comments

Ma Luk 馬祿臣

Updated March 23, 2015

temp. Notes:
Ma Luk. Credit: The Chinese Club, Hong Kong.
b.1882, Hunan 湖南 (or 1883, Hong Kong) – d.1963, Hong Kong. Variant name(s): in Chinese 馬六. Hong Kong nlt.1900.

HONG KONG. LMSHK 1905. Authorized to practice July 8, 1908 - EOP[1]. Public Dispensary, West Point 1908. Private practitioner net.1908-EOP, address: 3/F., King's Theatre Building (tel: 26504) 1941. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908-EOP. Inaugural directors of the board of Yeung Wo Nursing Home 1922. Vice President, HKCMA 1933-34. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948-1960 (or shortly before he died in 1963) at prewar address, with two sons, Ma Chiu-chong 馬超莊 and Ma Chiu-ki 馬超奇. Chairman, Chinese Club 華商會所 1900-1927. Freemason[2]. Ma died by heart failure in his Caine Road residence in the small hours of February 4, 1936. The funeral service was held in the St. John Cathedral two days later; he was buried at the Christian Cemetery in Pok Fu Lam Road 薄扶林道基督教墳場 (present day Hong Kong Christian Churches Union Pok Fu Lam Road Cemetery).

m. Li Huiying 李惠英 (educator, lawyer and promoter of Taiwan Strait relations; remarried writer and political commentator Tao Mulian 陶慕廉 after Ma's death). Had issues: 1. Ma Chiu-chong 馬超莊; 2. Ma Chiu-ki 馬超奇. 3. Ma Chiu-kuen 馬超權 (later Ma Shiu Kwan 馬兆君); 4. Ma Kwai-ying 馬桂英 [please refer to the comments (below) posted by Mr. Kent Ma on October 25, 2014]. According to the February 5, 1936 issue of the Wen Wei Po 文匯報, which had reported Ma's passing, Ma was survived by his wife, three sons, two daughters, seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

[Ma was a good friend and keen supporter of Sun Yat-sen.]

[1] LMSHK was the qualification awarded to graduates of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese HKCMC (1887-1912). Holders of LMSHK were not authorized to practice as private practitioners until July 8, 1908[a]. From that day on they were permitted to practice as "exempted persons", but not to be listed in the Medical Register and not be addressed officially as "Dr".

[a] There were hospital appointments, more particularly at missionary or charitable hospitals, prior to 1908. For instance, Kwan King-leung 關景良, LMSHK 1893, was permitted to practice at the Alice Memorial Hospital 1893.

[2] A source I have consulted says Ma was the first Chinese member of the Masonic order in Hong Kong. This cannot be true, early Chinese freemasons in Hong Kong had included such people as Ho Kai and Wei Yuk, years before Ma’s time.

Selected bibliography: Chinese Club, Hong Kong [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 10, 1908, Notice #482; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.
Saturday, March 21, 2015 0 comments

Lee, Richard Charles 利銘澤

Updated March 22, 2015

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online].
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Ho Kai (St. John's)

Updated March 22, 2015

Selected bibliography: Choa, G.H., The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai, The Chinese University Press, 2000, p.27.


Saturday, December 27, 2014 0 comments

Fung, Frederick Charles Mow (St. John's)

Updated December 28, 2014

[Worshipful Master, St. John's Lodge 618 (1925, 1926, 1946)]

Selected bibliography: The Skirret, Lodge St. John No.618 [online].
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 0 comments

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].
 
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