Everything tagged: Hong Kong Cadet

Director of Social Welfare Department, 1966 to 1968

The First Secretary of Housing from 1973 to 1977.

He arrived in Hong Kong in 1888 as a Cadet, then after learning Chinese he was appointed to a succession of roles in the local civil service. In 1901 he became the Registrar General, and remained in that role until retiring in 1912 on the grounds of ill health.

Local sites named after him:

Captain Superintendent of Police. 1901 – 1913. 

Tratman was educated at Clifton College and later University College, Oxford University. He joined the Hong Kong colonial service in 1904 and took up a lot of post like the Superintendent of Imports and Exports and District Officer (He was called Cheuk Tai Yan or Ta Chuek Chai (literally "hitting the little bird")). He contributed to the solving of the Canton-Hong Kong Strike in 1925. His final post is Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary and he received a C.M.G.

Chinese Wikipedia has a page for him - here's a link to the English translation.