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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.
David Kossick came to Hong Kong in 1935 as Assistant Government Marine Surveyor (Engineer Surveyor) in the Harbour Department, and was later promoted to Engineer and Ship Surveyor, becoming a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in 1936.
Dr Harry Lechmere* Clift was a pioneering medical missionary. Born in Madras, India in 1876, his father was an executive engineer in the Indian railways.
MR. HENRY PERCY WHITE, the chairman of the Hongkong Club for 1907-8, was born at Highgate in 1863, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School. He joined a London firm engaged in the tea trade in 1878, and, eight years later, went out to Formosa. He remained there until 1900, when he entered the firm of Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co., for whom he has been the manager in Hongkong since Mr. Lewis left the Colony. He has been a member of the Hongkong Club since 1898. He is also a member of the Peak, the Germania, and various local sporting; clubs.
Dates of birth and death from his entry in the Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography.
Herself an Eurasian, she was the wife and then widow of Oswald Chan (1918-1946), Eurasian R.A.F. pilot.
Later married another Eurasian Edwin Johnsford Macomber Churn (1912-1991) on 20th January 1951
"DEATHS:-
SOARES. - At 27, Jordan Road, Kowloon, on February 15th, 1933, Carlos Maria Soares, aged 45. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.15 p.m. to-morrow, (Macao and Shanghai papers please copy.)"