Everything tagged: Public Works Department

Info from C.S. card 00121011/12 .GIF states: "Mr W. Lyson who died at his residence 29 Kai Tack Bund, has been resident for almost the whole of his 71 years. He was father of the late C.H. Lyson, who served with distinction in the Great War and subsequently returned to Hong Kong as a solicitor and ultimately became principal in Messrs. Lyson and Hall. Mr Lyson senior served in P.W.D. for a number of years but left to join Mr Hazeland, architect. Latterly lived in retirement in Kowloon City. Funeral today. Chiu Yuen Cemetery, Mt.

James Kynoch was Senior Inspector of Works at the time of his death and had been with the PWD for 18 years. He had worked on the construction of the Panama Canal. He was one of the original promoters of the Kowloon Golf Club, a member of the Kowloon Cricket Club and a member of the Committee of the Union Church, Kowloon. He seems to have been a long standing friend and PWD contact of my grandfather, Charles Warren and a Kowloon neighbour. He is one of the twenty or so people listed in the SCMP as attending Charles Warren's funeral at St Michael's Cemetery in June 1923.

Son of Alexander Wilson (Irishman born in 1860) a master shoe-maker and Elzabeth Wilson (nee Cook).  Became a civil engineer and worked in the Public Works Department in Hong Kong for some thirty years. 

Married at St John's Cathedral on 1913-11-19 to Hilda Wilson and had at last two sons, namely Farquhar and Ronald.