Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Percy Hobson Holyoak moved to Hong Kong in 1899 as a member of Reiss & Co, which then became Holyoak, Massey & Co. He rose to become an unofficial member of Legco. He was Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce 1917-1918 and 1920-1921. He also became Chairman of the Hong Kong Club, the Alice Memorial Hospital and the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation. He was District Grand Master of Freemasonry in Hong Kong and South China.
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1924
c.1926
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Percy Hobson Holyoak
Marriage in Vancouver Canada 3 September 1904
Percy Hobson Holyoak to Nellie Gertrude Cowper
Probate Calendar 1926
Percy Hobson Holyoak of Victoria Hong Kong died 25 May 1926 at 35 Beaumont Street Marylebone London [not Birmingham]
Passenger List Hong Kong to San Francisco May 1917
Percy H Holyoak 44 Merchant born Northampton
Nellie G Holyoak 41
Margaret J Holyoak 11
Dorothy M Holyoak 11
Marriage Index 30 December 1933 St Marks Church Audley Street London
Margaret Joyce Holyoak age 28 of Tai Wo 35 Beech Avenue Amersham Buckinghamshire daughter of Percy Hobson Holyoak Merchant to Walter Horst 42 Civil Engineer
Percy H Holyoak 1874 - 1926
UK Birth Index
Percy H Holyoak birth registered Quarter 1 1874 Northampton
Death 26 May 1926 Hong Kong
1881 Census Mosside Lancashire
Percy Holyoak age 7 born Northampton. His father was a Baptist Minister
Birmingham C of E Burials Christ Church Yardley Wood
Percy Hobson Holyoak age 52 of Tai Wo The Peak Hong Kong burial 28 May 1926
Property
His house on the Peak was called Tai Wo: https://gwulo.com/node/59624