Everything tagged: England

Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne (Archdeacon) was a Church-of-England missionary, who served in China with his wife for his working life, before retiring to Hong Kong.

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 Edmonton, north London in 1902.  She was an evangelical Christian missionary in China and her story is told in the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess. (She was 4 foot 10 inches tall).

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.

His entry in Tony Banham's records:

Bramble, Harry O. Captain RA TA (Staff Captain RA)

Captain in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC).

Philip has written about him at: http://battleforhongkong.blogspot.com/2017/02/monthly-blog-february-201…