I'm looking for photos / sketches / portraits of him for the CPS project's history book.
Details of birth & death taken from the Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. It also mentions that he was appointed acting Police Magistrate in 1880, the first Chinese person to take this role. It is his connection with the CPS project. It also shows a good photo of Ng Choy.
I searched for choy in
- the photo search at HKPRO: nothing
- HK Public Library photo collection: nothing
- HK Museum of History: good photo of him in his horsehair wig & robes
He served in Legco, and they have a photo (cropped from photo at Museum of History): http://app.legco.gov.hk/member_front/english/library/member_detail.aspx?id=539
No relevant results for ng choy hong kong in the UKNA.
There are more photos of him in later life, when he had government posts with the pre- and post-revolutionary government in CHina, see: https://www.google.com/search?q=Wu+Tingfang&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=8x2nUYu6PMWpiAeA9oDYBQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1124&bih=738
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Ng Choy
The book "Wu Tingfang (1842 - 1922)" by HKU Press (1992) is your best source for info, but no photos therein.
re: Ng Choy
Thanks Adam.
Mr. Wu Ting fang 伍廷芳, JP (July 9, 1842 – June 23, 1922)
Mr. Wu Ting fang 伍廷芳, JP (July 9, 1842 – June 23, 1922)
Also known as Choy Ng 伍才 in Hong Kong BCC. He was born in Malacca (then part of the British Straits Settlements), he was a British subject by birth.
Before 1949, people could move freely in and out of Hong Kong BCC, provided you are registered with the Government.
He graduated in 1877, obtained a Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree from University College London. He was the first Chinese to obtain a British barrister qualification (Lincoln’s Inn), and the first Chinese barrister and Chinese member of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong.
His classmates included Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, who later became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (5 April 1908 – 5 December 1916).
Later, he entered politics in China, became a prominent politician, eventually rising to the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China.
Perhaps, correct me if I am wrong, the highest ranking China official, from Hong Kong BCC ever.
Peak Tram Proposal 1881
In 1881 two proposals were made to construct a tramway along the northern shore of Hong Kong Island.
The first was introduced by F Bulkely Johnson, who represented Jardine Matheson & Co, and another on 16th June by Ng Choy (also known as Wu Ting Feng 伍廷芳).
Eventually the two parties cooperated and applied jointly to the Legislative Council for permission to construct a tramway of 3ft. 6 in. gauge, to be moved by animal, steam or any mechanical power, for the carriage of passengers, their belongings, whether luggage, goods or passengers’ animals, provided that they did not exceed 16lb. in weight or one cubic foot in volume.