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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.&

From wiki:

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

He appears in the 1914 Jurors List:

And then in the 1942 list of civilian internees in Stanley Camp:

Notes from Nickie:

I found out today that my Great Grandmother was Alice Fritz Shuster and her father, was Jacob Fritz Shuster.

I came accross the comment that someone had wondered what had happened  to Edward Fritz's sister.

Alice married James Smith Hagen, who was a chemist at the Hong Kong Dispensory and had three children, Eustace, Gladys, (my Grandmother) and Walter.

She died shortly arriving back in England at the end of the war where she was under house arrest.

Father of Joseph Anderson (Hung Kam-Shing) and Henry Graham Anderson (Hung Kam-Ning) - mother was thought to be Annie Sawgan. See Peter Hall's book.

John Graham Anderson was son of Andrew Anderson surgeon to 92nd Highlanders from Selkirk in borders of Scotland. He worked in HK for House of Dent. He was born in Ireland because Andrew was the surgeon there for the 92nd.

He married Rosa MM Pollard daughter of Edward Hutchinson Pollard in HK at St John's Cathedral in Aug 1864.

Introduction

Born to James Hill and Rose Ho in 1928, Peggy bore many hardships during her time in Hong Kong. The timely arrival of the British Fleet in Hong Kong harbour on the 30th August 1945 and the generosity and kindness of a British man who had been a prisoner of war under the Japanese, enabled her to survive. She was able to emigrate to England to live a joyful and productive life until cancer brought her life to an end in 2022.

According to "Empire Made Me" by Robert Bickers, George Matcham left the Shanghai Metropolitan Police in 1922 to work at the Hong Kong stables . He was one of the jockeys who rode for my grandfather, Charles Warren and in particular came a close second with the pony Mosaic Tile in the Gymkhana Stakes at the Special Race Meeting for the Prince of Wales on 7 April 1922, leaving the rest of the field five lengths behind. He is named as attending my grandfather's funeral in June 1923.

Wife of the last governor of Hong Kong (1992-1997), Christopher Francis Patten, now Baron Patten of Barnes, Lavender Patten gave up her career as a family law barrister to accompany and support her husband in Hong Kong. After reading first classics, then law at St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford she was called to the bar in 1969. She currently works for MiD Mediation and Counselling in Twickenham, West London. She is also Patron of the Society for Support of Sick Newborn and Parents.