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Winifred Ashby was born in November 1876, and married Harry Lechmere Clift in 1901. For their life story see under Harry Lechmere Clift. After starting in China with the CMS briefly, theirs was very much a pioneering missionary work in Nanning, China , then with the BCMS from 1924-30 and latterly in Hong Kong from 1930.
Born in England (1913) but raised in Canada, Verent Mills gave up a promising career as a diesel engineer to became a missionary (with a heart for children) to south China in 1931. Desperately lonely, he cabled his fiancee Alma Kenney back home, and invited her to join the work. She came straight out, they married in 1932 and continued the work, at the same time raising a family there. Together they started 9 churches in
Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne was born in 1886. He had an older brother and three sisters. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, Clare College, Cambridge and trained for the ministry at Ridley Hall, Cambridge.
John Clifford, a graduate of Eton and Oxford, who served with the British 8th Army during W.W. 2, was a well-known Hong Kong barrister-at-law who, at the time of his death, lived with his wife Sheila and two young boys at 298 Gough Hill Road. He was tragically stabbed to death outside the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building in Des Voeux Central on his way home to lunch on Saturday 4th August 1956.
From the very early 1950's to his death in June 1972, Paul D. Alderton was a Hong Kong merchant.
Gladys Aylward was born in London in 1902; she was an evangelical Christian missionary to China and her story is told in the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess.
David Kossick came to Hong Kong in 1935 as Assistant Government Marine Surveyor (Engineer Surveyor) in the Harbour Department, and was later promoted to Engineer and Ship Surveyor, becoming a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in 1936.
Mr A.H. White was the brother of Henry Percy White and named as his heir. He is given in the Jurors Lists as working for Douglas & Co. S.S. His address is given as The Prince's Building, the same as his brother's. He seems to have arrived in Hong Kong much later than Henry White as he only appears in the Jurors Lists in the last decade or so of his brother's life. I don't know if he had the same involvement in racing. The Mr White who is given as a jockey was described as "one of the Shanghai contingent" - so probably not a relative of Henry and Athelstan.
MR. HENRY PERCY WHITE, the chairman of the Hongkong Club for 1907-8, was born at Highgate in 1863, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School. He joined a London firm engaged in the tea trade in 1878, and, eight years later, went out to Formosa. He remained there until 1900, when he entered the firm of Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co., for whom he has been the manager in Hongkong since Mr. Lewis left the Colony. He has been a member of the Hongkong Club since 1898. He is also a member of the Peak, the Germania, and various local sporting; clubs.
