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| Ma Luk. Credit: The Chinese Club, Hong Kong. |
HONG KONG. LMSHK 1905. Authorized to practice July 8, 1908 - EOP[1]. Public Dispensary, West Point 1908. Private practitioner net.1908-EOP, address: 3/F., King's Theatre Building (tel: 26504) 1941. Authorized medical practitioner to sign medical certificates of death 1908-EOP. Inaugural directors of the board of Yeung Wo Nursing Home 1922. Vice President, HKCMA 1933-34. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948-1960 (or shortly before he died in 1963) at prewar address, with two sons, Ma Chiu-chong 馬超莊 and Ma Chiu-ki 馬超奇. Chairman, Chinese Club 華商會所 1900-1927. Freemason[2]. Ma died by heart failure in his Caine Road residence in the small hours of February 4, 1936. The funeral service was held in the St. John Cathedral two days later; he was buried at the Christian Cemetery in Pok Fu Lam Road 薄扶林道基督教墳場 (present day Hong Kong Christian Churches Union Pok Fu Lam Road Cemetery).
m. Li Huiying 李惠英 (educator, lawyer and promoter of Taiwan Strait relations; remarried writer and political commentator Tao Mulian 陶慕廉 after Ma's death). Had issues: 1. Ma Chiu-chong 馬超莊; 2. Ma Chiu-ki 馬超奇. 3. Ma Chiu-kuen 馬超權 (later Ma Shiu Kwan 馬兆君); 4. Ma Kwai-ying 馬桂英 [please refer to the comments (below) posted by Mr. Kent Ma on October 25, 2014]. According to the February 5, 1936 issue of the Wen Wei Po 文匯報, which had reported Ma's passing, Ma was survived by his wife, three sons, two daughters, seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
[Ma was a good friend and keen supporter of Sun Yat-sen.]
[1] LMSHK was the qualification awarded to graduates of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese HKCMC (1887-1912). Holders of LMSHK were not authorized to practice as private practitioners until July 8, 1908[a]. From that day on they were permitted to practice as "exempted persons", but not to be listed in the Medical Register and not be addressed officially as "Dr".
[a] There were hospital appointments, more particularly at missionary or charitable hospitals, prior to 1908. For instance, Kwan King-leung 關景良, LMSHK 1893, was permitted to practice at the Alice Memorial Hospital 1893.
[2] A source I have consulted says Ma was the first Chinese member of the Masonic order in Hong Kong. This cannot be true, early Chinese freemasons in Hong Kong had included such people as Ho Kai and Wei Yuk, years before Ma’s time.
Selected bibliography: Chinese Club, Hong Kong [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 10, 1908, Notice #482; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.
3 comments:
I am a grandson of Ma Luk San (馬祿臣) and my name is Ma Siu Fu (馬小虎). I would like to inform you that my grandfather had 9 wives and he had at least two more children besides those mentioned in this profile, namely: my father Ma Chiu Kuen (馬超權) who changed his name to Ma Shiu Kwan (馬兆君) and my aunt Ma Kwai Ying (馬桂英). Both passed away already. My father died in Hong Kong and my aunt died in New Jersey. Li Huiying (李惠英) was my grandfather's youngest wife and they met when Li Huiying was a nurse. She married my grandfather when she was very young while my grandfather was very old.
Thank you very much for the information, Kent. Did any other children of Dr. Ma Luk practice medicine beside Drs. Ma Chiu-chong and Ma Chiu-ki ?
Hi Rudi, I have no idea if any children of my grandfather had been a medical practitioner, at least not anyone that I have heard of. Yet I cannot ruled out the possibility since my grandfather had nine wives and so there might be a possibility that some of his children (who are unknown to me) were medical practitioners.
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