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Director of Social Welfare Department, 1966 to 1968

The Reverend John Browne Ost succeeded in obtaining a Church Missionary Society post to Hong Kong in 1880 after frequent attacks of severe malaria in the Ningpo area of mainland China. In the Ladies Directory of 1887 Mrs Ost is listed at 5 Bonham Road and at the Church Missionary Society Sanatorium on the Peak in the Summer. John Ost started the Victoria Home and Orphanage. He was recalled to London in 1891 and posted to the Mid-China Mission in Chu-ki. Letters from from John Ost and his wife to the Church Missionary Society are included in Patricia P. K.

He isn't mentioned in the 1941 Jurors List.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Miss Wilson's occupation in 1941 as "Matron".

He was a Jesuit Father.

Dates of birth & death from his obituary: http://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Clergy-Brother/GH-Casey.h…

A medical doctor.

DoD from his obituary:

"[...] Fr. Bernard’s death is a great loss also for our China Province, where he arrived, newly-professed, 73 years ago in 1937 and where he spent 51 of his 73 years of Salesian life, being one of its Rectors (1952-1958) and Provincials (1958-1963). [...]"

He spent the war years (1941-45) in Hong Kong.