Peter HALLIWELL [????-????]

Submitted by Pectaylor on
Names
Given
Peter
Family
Halliwell
Sex
Male
Status
Deceased

My father flew out to HK in January 1952 to teach at King's College.  He spent his entire working life in education in HK at different schools.  After King’s College, he was Geography master at Queen’s college,  then an Education Department Geography Inspector and then back at King’ College as Acting Principal.  He was also Acting Head of KGV, also Jockey Club Technical School and then Principal of Shau Ki Wan Government Technical School.  For his last ten years in HK, he was Principal of Kowloon Technical School.

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I was a student of the Shaukeiwan Technical School.  I was in Form 2 or 3 when Mr. Peter Halliwell came to be the school Principal in 1966 (and so you can guess my age).  I left in 1969 after completing Form 5.  The school was opened in 1963 and so there was still no upper form classes before your father left in 1970.  

Your father had done a lot to the school which all the students appreciated with great thanks. I still keep an e-photo of your father,  but I think it may not be suitable to put in here without permission.  I have more to say on private email if you have time and interest, but will it be disallowed ?

I do not know how this site operates. I cannot find my last night's email but apparently you can see it. Is there a way to treat my email private (for you only) or public (openly posted on the site and visible to everyone)? 

Sorry i am new to this site and still do not know how it operates. 

Hello Greenwich, and welcome to the site.

I moved your original comment from the 'Flying from London ..." page to this page for Mr Halliwell, you can see it further up the page.

Anything you post to the site is public. If you'd like me to forward your email address to Clare just let me know.

Regards, David

David,

 

Please note that my father's name is Halliwell and not Halliday.  It must have transcribed it incorrectly when I originally posted is flight blog from the UK to Hong Kong.

 

Clare Taylor

Passenger List Birkenhead to Hong Kong December 1956 (Ancestry Passenger Lists)

Peter R  Halliwell b 19 April 1927 Education Officer UK address Inglewood, Old Road, Bromyard Herefordshire.  Died 10 April 2010 (Public Ancestry Tree)

Mrs Barbara J Halliwell nee Edmonston b 16 August 1922 Died 2013 (Public Ancestry Tree)

Son Halliwell b 6 October 1953

Daughter Halliwell b 18 November 1955

I was pleasantly surprised to find a page about a former principal of my alma mater on this website.

I graduated from Kowloon Technical School (KTS) a few years ago. While I was a student there, I received a scholarship in Mr. Halliwell's name that helped cover the cost of my school supplies and services (I wouldn't call myself a great student overall, though I happened to be among the top in my school at the time). Before getting the scholarship, I had never even heard his name. Because students' English at our school has declined and teachers mostly make announcements in Cantonese now, we usually just heard the house called "Red House" in Cantonese, so I never knew the name Halliwell before receiving the award. After getting the scholarship, I looked up his name and I discovered that our school's Red House (Halliwell House) is named after him too.

When I first searched for his story, I couldn't find much information beyond the fact that he had taught at King's College and worked as a senior official in the Education Department. Coming across this page recently was a wonderful surprise. I had no idea that he had such a remarkable career across so many schools in Hong Kong, or that he retired from my alma mater. I was also sorry to learn of his passing from this page. Most of our alumni probably don't know that he has passed away yet; at least, I haven't heard anyone mention it.

By the way, here is a video interview with a former student of his for our school's 60th anniversary project, where he talks about how much of an impact Mr. Halliwell had on his life: https://youtu.be/MErxYhczRiY

Thank you for sharing his story here.

Thank you for your kind words about my father and his work at Kowloon Technical School.

I can still picture the school in my mind as I often accompanied my father there during the school holidays.

I know it was very important to him that English was the medium of much of the teaching then.  

I think I still have a few  copies of the school magazine, "The Wheel",  but I will have to search in my attic for them.