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.

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.

Dennys, Henry Lardner (Perseverance)

Updated December 26, 2014

Dennys was born in Hampshire in 1852. He was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in January 1874 and practiced as a solicitor, notary public and patent agent. He was name partner of the solicitors firm, Dennys & Mosop; his partner was William H.R. Mossop. He was the Secretary, Librarian and Curator of the City Hall from 1877 to 1900. He was appointed Crown Solicitor in 1896 and continued until 1900. He was admitted as a solicitor of the British Consular Court in China and Japan. He was a foreign [non-resident] member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online]. Who's Who in the Far East 1906-7, Hong Kong: China Mail, 1907.

Bridges, William Thomas 必列者士

Updated December 21, 2014

temp. Notes:

Acting Attorney General, Acting Colonial Secretary, in multiple occasions in 1850s when the office-holders were on leave.
Honor: naming of Bridge Street 必列者士街 (better known in its short form 必街)

William Thomas Bridges (b.1820–d.year unclear) studied at Oxford, and at the Middle Temple from 1844. He was called to the Bar in 1847 and came to Hong Kong in 1851 where he started a law practice. Wealth began to cumulate for Bridges as business at the law firm thrived. The first sign of his dubious character unveiled when he started lending money at high interest rates. Because of shortage of lawyers in Hong Kong at that time and owing to the introduction his college friend, William Thomas Mercer who was the Colonial Treasurer, Bridges was asked to temporarily take over the office of the Attorney General when the office holder, Thomas Chisholm Anstey, went on leave in 1855. When Mercer became Colonial Secretary and took home leave from February 1857 to November 1859, Bridges stood in for him as well; assuming the most important government office next to that of the governor, while still carrying on his private law practice and money lending business. Bridges resigned in 1859 after being implicated in a number of scandals, and left Hong Kong in 1861. Bridges was a member of the Masonic order in Hong Kong.

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