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RBL 1

Though not known by these names any more, the two houses at 2 Pollack's Path and 44 Plantation Road have been joined from the very beginning.  They are now known simply by their addresses.

I found them on a 1915 map, so I am guessing that they were built c. 1910.

copied from http://gwulo.com/belvedere-plantation-road-the-peak

8 Pollock's Path - said to be one of the earliest residences built on the Peak, it was the taipan house for Wallace Harper & Co., now it is the residence of the Consulate General of France.

Public Records Office

HKRS156-1-80       

R.B.L. NO. 549 (FORMERLY R.B.L. NO. 1, SEC. E, R.P. - BROCKHURST & LANDLESS) - APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL OF CROWN LEASE IN RESPECT OF ,   06.07.1946 - 01.11.1950

Public Records Office Notes - RBL 1

"Lease is for 150 years from 30.9.1878 at a Crown Rent of HK$216 per annum.  This house was reconstructed in 1948".

Public Records Office:

The original "Kirkendoa" was built in 1897-8 by Henry Lardner Dennys, a Hong Kong Solicitor on part of a lot he

In January 1909 the house was purchased by Murray Stewart, the founding president of the Hong Kong Benevolent Society and a member of the first committee appointed ot raise funds to establish the University of Hong Kong.

Public Records Office

Owned by A. Bryer (per Leigh & Orange) and the first tax was paid in 1912.

Purchased by "Staff Buildings Ltd" in Feb 1930.

File  HKRS156-1-1491       R.B.L. NO. 671 (FORMERLY R.B.L. NO. 1 SEC. B.R.P. - NO. 373, PLANTATION ROAD, "HILDEN") - APPLICATION FROM STAFF BUILDING LTD. FOR RENEWAL OF CROWN LEASE IN RESPECT OF - ,   07.04.1948 - 23.02.1955

Originally owned by Henry Lardner Dennys - who named it after his father's home - Brockhurst near Fareham, Hampshire, UK