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Known as Hughie within the family, Hugh Olson was a high achiever. Hugh and his four brothers all attended St. Joseph's in Hong Kong until the death of their grandfather. In 1919 Hugh's mother, Annie Olson, took her four sons to England .Thereafter they were educated at St. John's College, Southsea, Portsmouth. Hugh became an electrical engineer and rose to become Sheriff of the City of London in 1974. He married Vera Fleck, a former beauty queen.  They had three children.

Thomas Pearce was an English missionary of the London Missionary Society in China.  He spent nearly half a century working in China as a missionary and translator, and was closely associated with the educational development in Hong Kong.

"BIRTH.

On the 22nd inst., at South Face, Beacon Hill Tunnel, the wife of FREDERICK SOUTHEY, A.M.I.C.E., of a Daughter."

"A YOUNG naval cadet named Cecil Rowland Brook Drummond belonging to H.M.S. Undaunted, who had just arrived in Hongkong from the Britannia, died in the Naval Hospital yesterday. Dysentery was the cause of death. The funeral took place at the Happy Valley this afternoon with the usual naval honours."

“About five o’clock yesterday afternoon the dead body of William Charles Owen, a sapper in the 25^th Company, Royal Artillery, was found in the harbour at Wanchai. It is not yet known how the deceased, who was 30 years of age, got into the water. He had been missing from barracks since midnight on the 17^th inst., and from all appearances his body had been in the water two or three days. An inquest will be held.”

"BIRTH.

On the 19th July, 1900, at 1, Seymour Terrace, the wife of E.W. MITCHELL, of a son."

Marine Surveyor for Bernie and Goddard, Hong Kong

"DEATHS.

At his residence, Fernside, Robinson Road, on Sunday, the 11th February, EDWARD BURNIE in his 58th year." 

Born circa 1920 medical missionary Peter Jenkins came from Bristol and as a boy wanted to be a drafting engineer.  Then two events changed his mind.  The first was his sister’s decision to become a missionary.  As her brother, Peter felt she shouldn’t have to do this alone.  The second event was a sermon he heard preached at his home church, which said that the cross of Christ was like a letter ‘I’ crossed out, and Christ himself epitomised the ‘I’ of selfishness crossed out.&

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George William Forbes Playfair (1852 – 16 May 1918) was a British businessman and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.