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Rev. Gilbert Hook was a pioneering British missionary in South China with the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society (BCMS); and latterly, an Anglican clergyman and canon in Australia.

English Labour MP and preacher on the Methodist circuit.

Chairman of the Fabian Society, deputy chairman of Christian Aid.  Served on the British Council of Churches.

Biography details here.

Wife of Methodist missionary Arthur Henry Bray

Sir George Ferguson Bowen GCMG PC (Chinese: 寶雲; 2 November 1821 – 21 February 1899) was an Anglo-Irish author and colonial administrator who served as a governor of Queensland, New Zealand, Victoria, Mauritius and Hong Kong and as chief secretary of Ionian Islands.

Sir George William Des Vœux GCMG was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of Fiji (1880–1885), Newfoundland (1886–1887), and Hong Kong (1887–1891).

He was the descendant of a French Huguenot who immigrated to Ireland in the early 18th century. His father was Reverend Henry Des Vœux who lived at the time of William's birth in Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Confederation.

Harry Mason Hillier was born on the 17th February 1851 at Hongkong and joined the Customs Service at Shanghai on the 17th August 1872 as a 4th Assistant. He served at Shanghai, Hankow, and Newchwang before being transferred on the 1st March 1880 to the Inspectorate at Peking, where he acted as Assistant Audit Secretary till the 30th June 1882, when he was transferred to the London Office, remaining there till the 31st July 1884. He subsequently served at Hankow, Tientsin, and Shanghai, where he was promoted Deputy Commissioner on the 1st June 1887.

Audrey Josephine Howe married Reginald Albert Camidge of the Chartered Bank at St. John's Cathedral on 10 December 1924.

After the fall of Hong Kong, the bankers and their spouses were initially accommodated at the Sun Wah Hotel. They were moved to Stanley Camp in May/June 1943 and billeted in Bungalow 'E'.

As Audrey Camidge was a Canadian national, permission was granted by the Japanese authorities for her to be repatriated on Teia Maru/Gripsholm. She left Stanley Camp in September 1943.

Paul Evelyn Baskett was born in Wiltshire, England in January 1884. He began his travels in 1902 when he went to South Africa.

In 1906, he was with the Natal Carabineers as a 2/Lt., and took part in the suppression of the Zulu Rebellion. Later, he went to Johannesburg on a gold mining trip, and was transferred to the Witwater Rand Rifles with the rank of Captain.

Dr. Stuart Harverson was a missionary who served with the CIM in Kunming, China, in the 1930s.

He married fellow missionary Sarah Kelly in December 1936, in Chuxion, Yunnan, China.  

The Rev Herbert Osborne was a British missionary of the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society whose work spanned Persia and South China during a period of political upheaval and war.