Everything tagged: Hong Kong

His death was reported on page 2 of The Hong Kong Telegraph, 1894-07-04:

Notes from annpake:

Leon Weill  born 15 January 1906 Hong Kong and died 27 April 1944 Shamshuipo POW Camp Husband of Vera father of Gerald and Bernard (Grave Stone Happy Valley Kong Kong) (Commonwealth War Graves shows death as 27 April 1945)

His entry in the 1942 list of POWs:

Karen Mok (or Karen Joy Natterer (née Morris) (Chinese: 莫文蔚), 2 June 1970) is a Hong Kong pop diva who is one of the leading Asian pop singers and actresses with a career spanning three decades. She is the first female Hong Kong singer to win the Golden Melody Award and has won it a total of three times. She has released 17 solo studio albums, starred in over 40 movies, has over 15 million followers on leading Chinese social media site Weibo and holds the Guinness World Record for the Highest Altitude Mass-Attended Music Concert.

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.