Yule, John Alexander (1864-1866)

updated  August 29, 2013

b.1837 - d. April 10 (or April 16), 1866 at sea. FRCS, Edinburgh. RN, Assistant Surgeon October 20, 1859. Freemason, Celtic Lodge October 20, 1857. Address: #11 St. John Street, Edinburgh 1857.

HONG KONG nlt.1864. Government doctor. Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital (vice John Dollman, new appointment Health Officer and Surgeon, Stone Cutters' Island Convict Hulk) June 21, 1864 - November 1864, resigned. Died on board the Euxine on the homeward passage from Hong Kong 1866.

s/o John Yule (Jr.), Writer to the Signet, d. May 15, 1851 [1], and J. Morrison Browne, d. August 29, 1870; d/o Robert Browne and Marion Morrison. Siblings: 1. Jane Finlay, m. George Finaly. 2. Georgiana Findlay, m. Thomas Findlay.

[1] A separate record shows that John Yule, junior, Writer to the Signet, was also a banker and dealer in railway and other stocks, and he died in 1847.

Selected bibliography: The Celtic Lodge, Edinburgh & Leith #291 [internet]. Dennys, N.B., King, Charles and Mayers, William Fred., The Treaty Ports of China and Japan: a complete Guide to the Open Ports of those Countries, together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao, Hong Kong: A. Shortrede & Co., 1867. Gravestone Photographic Resource › John Yule Grave Monument Details [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 25, 1864, Notice #105. The London and China Telegraph, August 15, 1864. The London Gazette, Issues #20799, p.4384.  The Medical Times and Gazette: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News, Vol. #1 1866, London: John Churchill & Sons, 1866. RN Surgeons [internet].

[Proactive research ended October 28, 2013.]

Moore, William Brownlow Ashe (1904-1936)

updated November 17, 2013.

b. August 8, 1879, Navan, County Meath, Ireland - d. July 31, 1973, Essex, England. LRCP&SI 1902; LM (Rot.) 1912; DTMH (Lond.) 1927. House surgeon, Meath Hospital and Co. Dublin Infirmary 1903. Ship’s surgeon, Indo-China S.N. Co. 1904. Hong Kong 1904. Hong Kong Government, Assistant Medical Officer of Health March - September, 1905; Assistant Surgeon, Government Civil Hospital September, 1905. The Great War 1917-18. RAMC, Captain March 1917; Mesopotamia. Returned to Hong Kong 1918. Government Civil Hospital; Kowloon Hospital; Victoria Hospital; Medical and Sanitary Services, acting Director 1929; Deputy Director. Lecturer in Chemistry 1907-12, Director of Studies 1909-12 [questionable], HKCMC. Lecturer in Medical Jurisprudence and Hygiene 1924-32, Clinical Obstetrics, HKU. Legislative Council 1929-34. President, St. Patrick's Society of Hong Kong 1934. Superintendent of Works and President of the Board of General Purposes, District Grand Lodge, Freemason. Retired to England 1936. Ship's surgeon, P. & O. line, serving at sea throughout the second world war [1]. Honor: Serving Brother of Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem 1931; King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935;  OBE 1936. Club: Hong Kong Club, Hong Kong Jockey Club.

s/o Joseph Henry Moore, MA, AIM of Dublin University, president of Institute of Civil Engineers, Ireland
m1, Agnes Mary Graham 1906. m2, Helen Bronsen 1924.

[1] Moore served on HMT Viceroy of India when she was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean by U-boat (U407) after landing one of the first detachments of British forces in North Africa. The date was November 11, 1942.

Selected bibliography: The Ashe Family Site [internet]. The Edinburgh Gazette, June 26, 1931, #14,768, p.715. Hong Kong Daily Press, January 3, 1936, p.6, Local Medical Men Honored. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 6, 1935, #362.

Ma Luk 馬祿臣 (1905-1960 )

updated October 26, 2014.

Ma Luk. Credit: The Chinese Club, Hong Kong.

b.1882, Hunan 湖南 (or 1883, Hong Kong) – d.1963, Hong Kong. Variant name(s): in Chinese 馬六. Hong Kong nlt.1900.

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.

Ainslie, David Hunter (1905-d.1921, HK)

updated September 10, 2013

b. April 11, 1875 – d. June 20, 1921 Hong Kong. MB, ChB August 16, 1898 (Aber.); DPH 1900; DTMH, (Cantab.) 1905. Medical Officer, Anchor S. N. Navigation Co., Glasgow 1899. Medical Officer, Lagos Government Railway, West Africa 1893-1901. Gold Coast (Ghana) Government Railway 1901-04. Demonstrator in the School of Tropical Medicine, London 1905. Hong Kong 1905. Registered to practice Hong Kong November 6, 1905. Private practitioner 1905-21, Drs. Stedman, Reinnie and Harston 1905, address: Alexandra Building 1905. Lecturer in Physiology, HKCMC 1905-08. Amoy 1909, owned and ran a private practice 1909.  The Great War, RN surgeon, assigned to the Mediterranean squadron, later seconded to the French and Japanese navies operating in the Mediterranean. Ocean Steam Ship Co., Ltd. Resumed practice after the war, Medical Officer, S.S. Keemuo. Prominent member of the Masonic Lodge Hong Kong. Club: Hong Kong Club. Residence: Kowloon Hotel 1905.

Selected bibliography: Evans, Dafydd Emrys (Ed.) Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, November 10, 1905, Notice #754.