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I'm looking for photos of Charles May, to be used in the Central Police Station project. If you know of any, please could you let me know in the comments below?
Dates of birth & death given by Robert Nield in the Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Robert's article also mentions:
i wonder if any member knows Stanley Parsons who served as navy officer at HMS venerable during the war. studied law at oxford, later settled in Hove, and made friends with a Mr Cheung of Brighton who also opened a restaurant "Peking Gallery" in haywards heath in the 80s. Parsons was properly rather senior in ranking and was close to the rich and famous. including governor Mark aitchison Young. He later received an honorary degree from HKU...
Hello everyone,
I'm new to the forum, but have been enjoying the site for several weeks.
I'm researching the activities of my father, George Merriman, who was interned in Stanley from the fall of HK until liberation. He told us very little of his memories, probably because he was Deputy Head of Station for Hong Kong MI6, serving under Alec Summers. He would have felt restrained by the Official Secrets Act, I suspect. (I met Alec Summers when he came to NZ to visit Dad in about 1960...)
There is some confusion between the 1871 and 1881 British Census as to where John William Lee-Jones was born (in 1860)
1871 Census has John as age 11, born in Chester
1881 Census has John as age 21, born in Ireland
1891 he is no longer living with his parents and siblings.
Listed as the father of Reginald Wynne Lee Jones, (a minor at the time) in Samuel Wynne Lee's will dated 1 Feb 1911. See the will under Samuel W. Lee. Will also stated they were living in Hong Kong, China, at the time of the will.
I am researching Francis Leslie Ball. He lived at 364, The Peak prior to WWII. He married Frances Mary Trevor-Smith, daug of John Thomas Smith AKA John Trevor-Smith and Marie Emma Barchet (descendant of Stephen Paul Barchet and Johann Georg Bausum - Chinese Missionaries from Germany).
Hilda Selwyn-Clarke was active in the Independent Labour Party in the 1930s. She stood for the ILP in the Clapham constituency in the 1931 General Election, achieving second place. In 1935 she abandoned her political career to marry Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke. Their daughter Mary was born in September of the next year.
Page 7 of the China Mail, 7 Jan 1937, reports his funeral, including:
The chief mourners were Mr. Reginald Potts and Mr Jack Potts (sons), Mr Peter Potts (brother), Mr Alec Potts and Mr J A Pym (nephews), Mr R Pestonji (partner of Messrs. Benjamin and Potts) and Mr. Ellis Hayim, of the Shanghai Office.
The Hong Kong Daily Press, 1937-01-05, gives a summary of his life on pages 1 & 8, including:
Here's the inscription on his gravestone, as shown in Patricia Lim's records:
| 16E--/06/08- | Erected by the/ Government of Hong Kong/ in memory of/ Kingsley Frank Woodward/ 3rd officer SS Haiching/ killed by pirates/ in the execution of his duty off Chelang Point/ 8th December 1929 |
Alfred Percy Sinnett edited the Hong Kong Daily Press between 1865 and 1868. He returned to England to work for The Standard, and in 1872 he became editor of the influential Indian paper The Pioneer (Rudyard Kipling was one of his staff).
He became interested in Asian religions and was involved with the Theosophical Society's attempt to draw on Hinduism and Buddhism to create a religion that would replace Christianity and eventually be validated by science. He wrote a number of books, the best known of which is Esoteric Buddhism (1883).