Gerard Hendrik VAN DEN POLL [c.1880-c.1960]
Gerard Hendrik van den Poll worked at Holland-China Trading Company in Hong Kong as an assistant in 1918. He was photographed there and also at the Guangzhou office. He is listed in the 1918 Juror's list.
Gerard Hendrik van den Poll worked at Holland-China Trading Company in Hong Kong as an assistant in 1918. He was photographed there and also at the Guangzhou office. He is listed in the 1918 Juror's list.
Charles Gesner van der Voort's colleague Frans de Jongh started working in China much earlier than Charles, in 1919, in Shanghai, at Holland-China Trading Company. In 1930, Frans de Jongh and his wife moved to Hong Kong, and lived at 2 Chatham Road, where their daughter Anneke was born, in the same year. Later, they moved to Tianjin (Tientsin) and during WWII, they were interned by the Japanese in Weihsien camp.
P. (Petrus, probably Peter in daily life) Stuyfbergen was the manager of the the Guangzhou office, Canton in 1918.
Cecilio Paulo Pintos worked for Hotz s'Jacob & Co from 1899-1903, and then, as the the company merged into Holland-China Trading Company in 1903, from 1903-1930 at that company. He appears in the jurur's lists on gwulo.com in between those years. If you happen to have more information on him, please contact me.
"MR. TONG LAI CHUEN, J.P., who occupies the post of compradore to the Holland-China Trading Company, is a native of the Hungshan district of China. His father, a well-known merchant both in that district and in the neighbouring Portuguese Colony of Macao, was for many years connected with the Yun Loong tea hong of the latter place. Mr. Tong Lai Chuen has resided in Hongkong for upwards of thirty-three years, and during that time has been actively connected with several companies.
Ferdinand Bernard (Frits) s'Jacob (1872, Rotterdam-1941, London) was one of the founders of the company which employed Charles, Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC).
Site is wasteland in the 1949 aerial photographs.
Replaced by Cornwell Mansions at 114-126 Wharf Road which was completed in January 1974