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Barbara Lomas was a missionary nurse who was born in 1909 to Charles and Elizabeth Lomas in Withington, Manchester.  The 1911 census tells us that Charles was a warehouseman for a company dealing in cotton goods and the family with two girls and Elizabeth’s widowed mother lived in a respectable Victorian terraced house. 

Winifred Lechmere Clift was the wife of, and co-worker with, a pioneering medical missionary working in China.  They both worked for the CMS, the BCMS, and independently, and spent the latter half of their lives in Hong Kong.

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

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.