Alfred Victor Jorge ALVARES [1910-1992]
Architect.
His projects included:
- Arrowhead, his own house at Repulse Bay (the page for Arrowhead includes several people's memories of Mr Alvares).
- Tregunter Mansions
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Architect.
His projects included:
Civil Engineer in Admiralty Works, Hong Kong and later self-employed civil engineeer and architect and Special Juror. A keen and prominent Freemason in Hong Kong, holding the position of Worshipful Master of the Zetland Lodge from 1898, and was later P.M.Z. Victoria Chapter from 1901 and then District Senior Grand Warden from 1912. Two of his four sons pre-deceased him in Hong Kong
Architecture Firm who designed many of Hong Kong's iconic buildings in the late 19th & early 20th Century under various names, most famously as Palmer & Turner.
Timeline of Partners and Projects:
Wilson & Salway (est.1871-1875)
Wilson & Bird (1881-1881)
Bird & Palmer (1882-1890)
Edwin G.W. Sait was a young boy when his widowed mother Mary Ann Sait travelled to Hong Kong to marry Edward Newman. I found Edwin, aged 4 as a boarder with a family in Southampton in 1871. I know Edwin was educated in England and remained there until about 1882.
I think I've found him in the Hong Kong Directory as E. Sait Newman at the Family Hotel Chefoo in 1888 and 1889. Was he there earlier? After or before his stepfather died?