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Dr Robert Morrison was a Protestant missionary, who first visited China in 1807. The following outline of Dr Morrison's life was given as a speech by L T Ride at Hong Kong University's Loke Yew Hall on 4th September, 1957.
ROBERT MORRISON - THE SCHOLAR AND THE MAN
He's mentioned in the Jurors Lists throught the 1920s, eg the 1929 list shows:
| s | Russell | Donald Oscar | Merchant | W R Loxley & Co. | On premises |
On 26 August 1939 Fred Woodhead set sail from Southampton to Hong Kong on the Viceroy of India together with a number of other "Crown Agents" who were members of the Hong Kong Police. After the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941 he was imprisoned in Sham Shui Po POW Camp. He was on the Lisbon Maru on 1 October 1942 when it was torpedoed and sunk by US submarine Grouper. Fred survived and was then transferred to Osaka Camp #1, where he remained for the duration of the war. He returned to the UK after his release and married his finacee, Miss Jeannie Smith, 3 weeks lat
Mr Smith is mentioned on Tony Banham's list of members of the HKVDC:
John Hubert Bottomley (Jack) was born in Baildon, West Yorkshire in 1899, the oldest of four children of Fred Bottomley and Elizabeth Tyson. As a young man Jack served in World War I and was gassed as well as receiving serious shrapnel wounds in Flanders. He was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal.
After the Great War he studied engineering at Bradford Technical College (now Bradford University). He passed the Oxbridge exams but the family could not afford to send him to Oxford or Cambridge.
Paul Dutoit, the founder of the Macau Grand Prix and a Master at Diocesan Boys School.
Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Customs China. Also, 3rd Assistant at Shanghai. Joined customs in October 1879. - The Chronicle and Directory for China, japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits ...
Father-in-law Captain William Gore Annelsey
Died at Farnham, Surrey, England
I am a distant cousin of Richard Rothwell. He lived in Canton China from 1845 until 1857, making two short visits to England in 1851 and 1856. He was a clerk working for Jamieson, Howe, & Co. in the tea trade. His brother Thomas Rothwell was a tea merchant in Shanghai from 1855 until 1883. From 1862 until the brancruptcy in 1876 he traded under the name Rothwell, Love & Co. together with his partner Joseph Love jun.
His appears in the 1941 Jurors List:
| c | Robinson, Jack Fraser | Assistant, Butterfield & Swire | On premises. |