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The Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography collects in one volume more than 500 specially commissioned entries on men and women from Hong Kong history. Ninety contributors, including prominent academics, journalists and other experts, have written entries for the collection. The contents are arranged alphabetically and include some 370 illustrations in colour and black and white. The first of its kind for Hong Kong, the dictionary will be an enduring work of reference for scholars and researchers and a source of pleasure for the general reader.
More information, and online ordering is available at the Hong Kong University Press website.
The dictionary includes biographies of the following people:
- Addis, Sir Charles Stewart
- Alabaster, Sir Chaloner Grenville
- Aldrich, Major Edward
- Alford, Charles Richard
- Andrew, Kenneth Walter
- Ann Tse-kai
- Ansari, Mateen Ahmed
- Anstey, Thomas Chisholm
- Aoyama Tanemichi
- Aquinas, Sister Mary Monahan
- Arisue Yadoru
- Au Tack
- Aw Boon Haw
- Aw Boon Par
- Ayres, Philip Burnard Chenery
- Baker, John Gilbert Hyndley
- Ball, James Dyer
- Banaji, Dadabhoy Rustomjee
- Banaji, Maneckjee Rustomjee
- Banister, William
- Baptista, Marciano Antonio
- Barker, Sir George Digby
- Barnett, Ernest Judd
- Barnett, Kenneth Myer Arthur
- Barretto, Gloria d’Almada
- Barrow, Sir Edmund George
- Bate, William Thornton
- Baxter, Susan Harriet Sophia
- Beato, Felice
- Belcher, Sir Edward
- Belilios, Emanuel Raphael
- Bell-Irving, John
- Benson, Stella
- Berger, Ernest Lewis Corbett
- Bernacchi, Brook Antony
- Bird, Isabella Lucy
- Bisney, Dhunjeebhoy Ruttonjee
- Black, Sir Robert Brown
- Black, Sir Wilson
- Blake, Sir Henry Arthur
- Blunden, Edmund Charles
- Bodell, James
- Bonham, Sir Samuel George
- Booth, Martin
- Borget, Auguste
- Bowen, Sir George Ferguson
- Bowring, Sir John
- Boxer, Charles Ralph
- Braga, José Pedro
- Bremer, Sir James John Gordon
- Bremridge, Sir John Henry
- Bridges, William Thomas
- Brown, Samuel Robbins
- Bruce, Murdoch
- Burdon, John Shaw
- Burgess, Claude Bramall
- Butters, Henry Robert
- Caine, Sir Sydney
- Caine, William
- Caldecott, Sir Andrew
- Caldwell, Daniel Richard Francis
- Cameron, Sir William Gordon
- Cantlie, Sir James
- Cater, Sir Jack
- Chadwick, Osbert
- Chalmers, John
- Champion, John George
- Chan Ayin
- Chan Chak
- Chan Kai-ming
- Chan Lim-pak
- Chan, Luis
- Chan Pak-keung, Danny
- Chan Tai-kwong
- Chan Yi-wo
- Chang Ai-ling, Eileen
- Chang Cheh
- Chao Shao-an
- Chater, Sir Catchick Paul
- Chau Sik-nin
- Chau Tsun-nin
- Che Kam-kwong
- Chen Dieyi
- Chen Guiji
- Chen Shaobai
- Cheng, Irene
- Cheong Alum
- Cheung Kwok-wing, Leslie
- Cheung, Sir Oswald Victor
- Cheung Pat Sze
- Cheung Po Tsai
- Cheung Wood-yau
- Cheung Ying
- Cheung Yuk-tong
- Ching, Henry
- Chinnery, George
- Choa, Gerald Hugh
- Choa Leep-chee
- Chow Shouson
- Choy, Rudy Wing-hay
- Chui Apo
- Chun Wai-chan, Daphne
- Clague, Sir John Douglas
- Clavell, Charles Edmund Dumaresq
- Clementi, Sir Cecil
- Cleverly, Charles St George
- Coates, Austin
- Cochrane, Sir Thomas John
- Collinson, Sir Richard
- Collinson, Thomas Bernard
- Cooper, Luise
- Cowperthwaite, Sir John James
- Cradock, Sir Percy
- Crawford, Ninian
- Cree, Edward Hodges
- Croucher, Noel Victor Amor
- D’Aguilar, Sir George Charles
- d’Almada e Castro, Christopher Paulo
- d’Almada e Castro Jr., Leonardo Horátio
- d’Almada e Castro, Leonardo
- d’Almada e Castro, José Maria
- Davis, Sir John Francis
- Delano Jr., Warren
- Dent, Lancelot
- Dent, Wilkinson
- Dent, John
- Des Voeux, Sir George William
- Dew, Gwendolyn Janet
- Dhunjishaw, Rustomjee
- Ding Yanyong
- Doberck, August William
- Dodwell, George Benjamin
- dos Remedios, João Joaquim
- Du Yuesheng
- Duddell, George
- Duppuy, Charles Ridley
- Edwards, Jack
- Eitel, Ernst Johann
- Eliot, Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe
- Elliot, Sir Charles
- Emerson, Bella
- Endacott, George Beer
- Epstein, Israel
- Eu Tong Sen
- Fang Zhaoling
- Fei Yi-ming
- Feng Tzu-yu
- Fleming, Sir Francis
- Floyd, William Pryor
- Fok Hing-tong
- Fok Ying-tung, Henry
- Forbes, John Murray
- Forbes, Robert Bennet
- Ford, Charles
- Forsgate, Hugh Moss Gerald
- Forster, Gladys
- Fraser, John Alexander
- Freedman, Maurice
- Fung King-hey
- Fung Ming-shan
- Fung Ping-fan, Sir Kenneth
- Fung Ping-shan
- Gabriel, Sister Mary O’Mahoney
- Gimson, Sir Franklin Charles
- Gittins, Jean
- Gock Chin, Philip
- Gock Lock, James
- Godber, Peter Fitzroy
- Gough, Sir Hugh
- Grantham, Sir Alexander William George Herder
- Grasett, Sir Arthur Edward
- Grayburn, Sir Vandeleur Molyneux
- Gützlaff, Karl Friedrich August
- Haddon-Cave, Sir Charles Philip
- Hahn, Emily
- Hall, Ronald Owen
- Hamberg, Theodore
- Hance, Henry Fletcher
- Harcourt, Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson
- Harland, William Aurelius
- Haslewood, Clara
- Hau Ng-long
- Heard, Albert Farley
- Heard, Augustine
- Heard, George Washington
- Heard, John
- Heard Jr., Augustine
- Hennessy, Sir John Pope
- Herklots, Geoffrey Alton Craig
- Hillier, Charles Batten
- Ho Alloy
- Ho A-mei
- Ho Asek
- Ho Chi Minh
- Ho Fook
- Ho Kai
- Ho Kom-tong
- Ho Shai-lai, Robert
- Ho Sin-hang
- Ho Tim
- Ho Tsun-sheen
- Ho Tung, Clara
- Ho Tung, Sir Robert
- Hoare, Joseph Charles
- Holmes, Sir David Ronald
- Hong Ren’gan
- Hsu Chen Ping, Francis Xavier
- Hu King
- Hughes, Richard
- Hulme, John Walter
- Isogai Rensuke
- Jackson, Sir Thomas
- Jardine, Andrew
- Jardine, David
- Jardine, Joseph
- Jardine, Sir Robert
- Jardine, William
- Jebsen, Hans Jacob
- Jebsen, Jacob Friedrich Christian
- Jebsen, Michael (1835-1899)
- Jebsen, Michael (1911-2000)
- Jenyns, Roger Soame
- Jian Jinglun
- Johnston, Alexander Robert Campbell
- Johnston, Sir Reginald Fleming
- Johnstone, Margaret Elizabeth
- Kadoorie, Sir Ellis
- Kadoorie, Sir Elly
- Kadoorie, Sir Horace
- Kadoorie, Lawrence
- Kan Tong-po
- Kellett, Sir Henry
- Kennedy, Sir Arthur Edward
- Keswick, James Johnstone
- Keswick, Sir John Henry
- Keswick, Margaret
- Keswick, William
- King, Gordon
- Kitasato Shibasaburo
- Klitzke, Ernst
- Ko Mun-wah
- Kotewall, Sir Robert Hormus
- Kwan Tak-hing
- Kwok Acheong
- Kwok Tak-seng
- Kwok Tak Wa
- Kwong Ki-chiu
- Kwong Yat-shau
- Ladany, Laszlo
- Lai Afong
- Lai Man-wai
- Laisun, Spencer
- Lai Yan-tseuk
- Lam Bun
- Lam Fung, Patricia
- Lamqua
- Lander, Gerard Heath
- Lane, Thomas Ash
- Lane, William Farleigh Otway
- Lapraik, Douglas
- Lau Chu-pak
- Lechler, Rudolf Christian Friedrich
- Lee Chenche
- Lee, Harold Hsiao-wo
- Lee Hysan
- Lee Jung Sen
- Lee Kau Yan, Samuel
- Lee, Richard Charles Ming-chak
- Lee Siu-lung, Bruce
- Legge, James
- Lei Ho-shing
- Lerda, Francisco
- Leung Chee Tung
- Leung On
- Leung Sing-po
- Li Chi-chung
- Li Chi-tang
- Li Choh-ming
- Li Han-hsiang
- Li Huitang
- Li Kam-moon
- Li Koon-chun
- Li Leong
- Li Po-chun
- Li Shu-fan
- Li Shu-pui
- Li Sing
- Li Tim-oi, Florence
- Li Tsao Sau-kwan, Ellen
- Li Tse-fong
- Li Yuk-tong
- Liao Chengzhi
- Lin Dai
- Lin Fengmian
- Little, Alicia Ellen Neve
- Liu Chung-kit
- Lo Aqui
- Lo Dun
- Lo Hok-pang
- Lo Hsiang-lin
- Lo Kwee Seong
- Lo Man Kam
- Lo Ming-yau
- Lo Pak-sheung
- Lo Tak-shing
- Lo Tung-fan
- Lobscheid, Wilhelm
- Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart
- Loke Wan Tho
- Loke Yew
- Louey Sui-tak, William
- Luddington, Sir Donald Collin Cumyn
- Lugard, Dame Flora Louise
- Lugard, Sir Frederick John Dealtry
- Lui Lok
- Lui Shou-kwan
- Ma Sze-tsang
- Ma Ying-piu
- MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves
- MacDougall, David Mercer
- MacLehose, Sir Crawford Murray
- MacLennan, John
- Mak, Hin-yeung, Antonio
- Maltby, Christopher Michael
- Man Sai-ko
- Man Tsam-chuen
- Man Yam
- Manson, Sir Patrick
- Marden, George Ernest
- Marden, John Louis
- Marsh, Sir William Henry
- Martin, Robert Montgomery
- Mason, Richard
- Matheson, Sir Alexander
- Matheson, Donald
- Matheson, Sir James Nicholas Sutherland
- May, Charles
- May, Sir Francis Henry
- May, Helena Augusta Victoria
- McSwyney, Percy Caulincourt
- Mercer, William Thomas
- Miller, Marshall Milton
- Mithaiwala, Dorabjee Naorojee
- Mody, Sir Hormusjee Naorojee
- Mok Kon-sang
- Mok Man Cheung
- Mok Shau Tsang
- Mok Sze-yeung
- Mok Tso-chun
- Mok Ying-kwai
- Mong Man Wai, William
- Morrison, Hedda
- Morrison, John Robert
- Morrison, Robert
- Morse, Sir Arthur
- Mui Yim-fong, Anita
- Müller, Johannes
- Murrow, Yorick Jones
- Nathan, Sir Matthew
- Ng Akew
- Ng Cho-fan
- Ng Choy
- Ng Shing-chi
- Ng Shue-tong
- Ngan Shing-kwan
- Noma Kennosuke
- Noordin, Seth Ebrahim
- Northcote, Sir Geoffry Alexander Stafford
- Norton-Kyshe, James William
- Odell, Harry Oscar
- Ong Guan Bee
- Osouf, Pierre-Marie
- Ouyang Hui
- Pak Yin
- Pan Huaguo
- Pang Kwai
- Pao Yue-kong
- Parker, Sir William
- Pauncefote, Sir Julian
- Peel, Sir William
- Piggott, Sir Francis Taylor
- Pottinger, Sir Henry
- Prendergast, Sir John
- Pui To
- Qiao Guanhua
- Qiying
- Raimondi, John Timoleon
- Rennie, Alfred Herbert
- Ride, Sir Lindsay Tasman
- Rizal, José
- Robinson, Sir Hercules George Robert
- Robinson, Sir William
- Rodrigues, Sir Albert Maria
- Romano, Agostinho Guilherme
- Ross, Daniel
- Ruttonjee, Dhun
- Ruttonjee, Jehangir Hormusjee
- Ryan, Thomas Francis
- Ryrie, Phineas
- Sakai Takashi
- Sanguinetti, Albert
- Sassoon, Sir Albert (Abdullah) David
- Sassoon, Elias David
- Sassoon, Sir Jacob Elias
- Sayer, Geoffrey Robley
- Sayer, Guy Mowbray
- Seemann, Berthold Carl
- Selwyn-Clarke, Hilda Alice
- Selwyn-Clarke, Sir (Percy) Selwyn
- Senhouse, Sir Humphrey le Fleming
- Sethna, Pestonjee Cowasjee
- Severn, Sir Claud
- Sharp, Granville
- Sharp, Matilda Lincolne
- Shuck, Henrietta
- Shuck, Jehu Lewis
- Shum Tin-ha, Lydia
- Sin Ping-hei, Peter Henry
- Sin Tak Fan
- Sit Kok-sin
- Smale, Sir John Jackson
- Smith, Carl Thurman
- Smith, Sir Cecil Clementi
- Smith, George
- Smith, Norman Lockhart
- Smith, Thomas Sercombe
- Soong Ching-ling
- Southorn, Bella Sidney Woolf
- Southorn, Sir Wilfrid Thomas
- Speak, Geoffrey Lowrey
- Stanton, Vincent John
- Stewart, Evan George
- Stewart, Frederick
- Stubbs, Sir Reginald Edward
- Suganami Ichiro
- Sun Ma Sze-tsang
- Sun Yat-sen
- Sutcliffe, Charles Payne
- Sutherland, Sir Thomas
- Su Zhaozheng
- Swire, George Warren
- Swire, John Kidston
- Swire, John Samuel
- Symons, Catherine Joyce
- Szeto Wah
- Tam Achoy
- Tam Pak-sin
- Tanaka Hisakazu
- Tang-A-shing
- Tang Chi-ngong
- Tang Fu-hip
- Tang Ping Yuan
- Tang Shaoyi
- Tang Shiu-kin
- Tarrant, William
- Thomson, John
- Ting Hsiung Chao
- Tong King-sing
- Tong King-sum
- Tong Mow-chee
- Tong Tik-sang
- Tonnochy, Malcolm Struan
- Trench, Sir David Clive Crosbie
- Tsang Lai-sun
- Tse Tsan Tai
- Tso Seen-wan
- Tso Tat-wah, Walter
- Tsui Ka-cheung, Paul
- Tsui Tsin Tong
- Tung Chao-yung
- Uttley, Kenneth Harrison
- Van Es, Hubert
- Vetch, Henri
- von Overbeck, Baron Gustav Ernst Hugo
- Wade, Sir Thomas Francis
- Wai Kin-yuen
- Wang Chung Yick
- Wang Kung Yu-sum, Nina
- Wang Tao
- Ward, Barbara Elsie
- Watson, Alexander Skirving
- Wei Akwong
- Wei Yuk
- Whitehead, Thomas Henderson
- Wong Akee
- Wong Chok-mui, Raymond
- Wong Foon
- Wong Jim
- ‘Wong Kwu’
- Wong Man-lei
- Wong Shing
- Wong Wai-nam
- Woo Hay-tong
- Woo Lai-woon
- Woo Pak-chuen
- Woo Pak-foo
- Woo So-ching, Catherine F.
- Woo Wai-tak, Arthur
- Wright, George Henry Bateson
- Wright-Nooth, George Allan Rodney
- Wu Cheng-chung, John Baptist
- Wu Shun-tak
- Xu Dishan
- Yam Kim-fai
- Yang Heling
- Yang Shen-sum
- Yao Ming
- Yau Lit
- Yazaki Kanju
- Ye Lingfeng
- Ye Mingchen
- Yee Shiu Kee
- Yen Chun
- Yersin, Alexandre Emile Jean
- Yeung Kui-wan
- Youde, Sir Edward
- Young, Sir Mark Aitchison
- Youngsaye, James Lawrence
- Yung Sze-chiu
- Yung Wing
- Zeng Sheng
- Zhang Shankun
- Zhao Bing
- Zhao Shi
- Zhu Shilin
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