Myles, Charles Duncan (1930-1933)

updated April 12, 2014.

d. November 1, 1957. MB (Dubl.) 1900. RAMC 1900^[1]-1934. Promotions: retired 1934, final rank: Colonel; ceased to be Reserve Officer May 9, 1937. Service: Aldershot 1900; Dublin 1901; The Great War, Geneva, Switzerland, Commander of #2 Ambulance Train;  Hong Kong nlt.1930. Royal Society of Promotion of Health, Member 1913, Fellow 1932. Honor: OBE (for services with the British Expeditionary Force in France) 1918. Address: Frimley Green, Surrey 1941.

HONG KONG nlt.1930. Sanitary Board (vice Douglas Gordon Cheyne) February 28, 1930 - May 22, 1930, resigned. President, St. Patrick's Society 1932.

m. Letitia Francis [s.n.]. Had issues: Thomas Picton Myles (b.1912; RAMC (#72898), KIA Bangalore, Mysore, India November 3, 1942, bur. Madras Was Cemetery, Chennai).

Publications: Suicide in a Fit of Temporary Insanity, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol. 13, 1092, p.437. Peregrinations and Passports, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol. 59, 1932, p.452.

[1] Myles scored a mark of 2,040 at his RAMC entry examination held in London in 1900. He ranked #6 in a total of nine successful candidates.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, September 1, 1900, p.608; March 16, 1901, p.683. The Edinburgh Gazette, June 10, 1918, p.2016Hong Kong Government, Report of the Head of the Sanitary Department for the Year 1930. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 30, 1930, #326. Journal of the Royal Society of Promotion of Health, January 1, 1958. The London Gazette, May 14, 1937, p.3186. St. Patrick's Society Hong Kong [internet]. The War Graves [internet].

May, Arthur William (1897)

updated December 14, 2013.

Sherborne School; trained at King's College Hospital, London; MRCS 1876; LRCP 1877; FRCS (Eng.) 1914. RN, Surgeon March 30, 1878; Plymouth Hospital 1879; Egyptian War 1882, HMS Achillies; Suakin Expedition, Nile Expedition (for the relief of General Gordon at Khartoum) 1884. Hong Kong nlt.1897. Surgeon Vice-Admiral. Medical Director-General, Medical Department. Honor: KCB; King's Honorary Physician; Khedive Bronze Star; MID 1884.

HONG KONG nlt.1897.

b. June 18, 1854, South Petherwin, Cornwall - d. April 20, 1925, St. Tudy, cornwall. s/o Rev. H.T. May (Fellow of New College, Oxford) and Frances Mackenzie Tew Agnew.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, May 1, 1897, p.1125; May 2, 1925, p.862.

temp. notes:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2226399/?page=1

McMahon, Edmund (1935-1940)

updated December 6, 2013.

Dentist.

BDS (Syd.) February 6, 1933; DDS Northwestern University of Chicago June 16, 1934. Hong Kong nlt.1935

HONG KONG nlt.1935. Registered dental surgeon 1935-40. Private practitioner 1935-40.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 10, 1935, #371; May 7, 1937, #322; May 10, 1940, #537.

Ma Shiu-ting 馬少廷 (1917-1919)

updated November 30, 2013.

Dentist.

HONG KONG nlt.1917. Holder of Certificate of Exemption under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914 [1] to practice dentistry 1917-19. Private practitioner nlt.1917-1919.

[1] Certificates of Exemption were issued to applicants who had long history practicing dentistry in Hong Kong but lacked the academic qualifications to become Registered Dental Surgeons.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Dental Ordinance, 1914. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 1, 1917, #256; May 7, 1920, #273.

McKean, George Wiliam (1914-36)

updated December 1, 2013.

Dentist.

Hong Kong nlt.1914-36. Whereabouts after 1936 unknown.

HONG KONG nlt.1914. Registered dental surgeon 1914-27, re-registered 1932-36 , one of the first eight dentists registered with the government following the regulation of the practice of dentistry on May 7, 1914 [1]. Dental Board, acting member (vice Joseph Whittlesey Noble, absence on leave) July 21, 1916; member (vice Frederick Howard Kew, resigned) June 1, 1922 - 1924.

[1] The first dental surgeons registered with the government following the enactment of the Dentistry Ordinance 1914: Mehdy Edward Asger, Arthur de Carvalho, Chaun Moon Hung 周夢熊, Edward Evan Jones, Frederick Howard Kew, Irvin Whiteley Kew, George Wiliam McKean, and Joseph Whittlesey Noble.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 28, 1916, #30; June 2, 1922, #250; September 7, 1928, #503; May 6, 1932, #285..

Murray, John Ivor 孖厘 (1859-1872+)

 updated August 29, 2013.

John Ivor Murray

b.1825. MD (Aber.) 1856. Hong Kong 1859. Hong Kong Government, Colonial Surgeon, April 12, 1859-1872; Acting Chairman, Committee of the International Exhibition, London, 1862 [1] October 16, 1861. Member, Commission, Yellow Fever Inquiry March 19, 1866 [2]. JP (official).

Had issues: William Alfred Murray [3].

[Murray wrote the following in his Colonial Surgeon Report for the year 1860,

" The hospital system has always appeared to me very inadequate to the population. In fact it may be broadly stated that there is no hospital for Chinese, who form such a vast majority of our population."]

[1] Also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition. The committee was made up of John Ivor Murray, J.J. Mackenzie, J.D. Gibb, W. Walkinshaw and W. Kane.

[2]. The three-member Commission (A Commission for the Purpose of Making Inquiry into an Epidemic Disease Represented by the Colonial Surgeon to be Yellow Fever) was appointed by the 6th Hong Kong Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell on Mach 19, 1866. The members were John Ivor Murray, Colonial Surgeon; William Dick, AMD surgeon (chairman); and Robert Bernard, RN surgeon.

[3] William Alfred Murray was born in Hong Kong on August 14, 1863 Hong Kong. He received MB and CM from the Aberdeen University in 1890.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 16, 1859, Notice #39; October 19, 1861, Notice #119; May 12, 1866, Notice #71.

Murray, J. (1881)

updated October 14, 2013

Army Medical Department, Surgeon-Major; Hong Kong nlt.1881; Hong Kong Government, Acting Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital (vice Charles John Wharry, leave of absence) July 26, 1881.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 30, 1881, Notice #263.

Murray, Herbert Edward (1919)

updated

MBBS, BMid (Dubl.) October 20, 1913. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 16, 1919. Residence: #5 Observatory Villas, Kowloon 1919.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 16, 1919, Notice #224.

Munehiro Jungo 宗廣純吾 (1921-EOP)

updated August 12, 2013

Igakushi (MB), Tokyo Univ. December 25, 1916. Registered to practice Hong Kong October 28, 1921 through EOP. Majima Hospital 1921-EOP.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, October 28, 1921, Notice #439; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Muller, Oskar (1904-1923)

updated August 26, 2013.

Name variation: Oskar Muller-Meernach. MD (Munich) April 10, 1897. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 6, 1904. Private practitioner, name partner, Drs. Muller and Justi 1904, address: #16 Queen's Road 1904. Removed from the Medical Register by the government on February 15, 1923 [1].

[1] The following doctors were removed from the Medical Registered by the government in February 1923 on the ground that they had not practiced for more than three months during the five year immediately preceding the enactment of the Medical Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1923; and they were: Karl Hoch, Carol Justi, Oskar Muller, Kurt Otto Herman Walther and Theodor van Wesel, all German nationals.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 6, 1904, Notice #341; March 2, 1923, Notice #88.

Morrison, William (1847-d.1853, HK)

updated

b.[n.d.]-d.1853, Hong Kong. Private practice, England nlt. 1847. Recruited by Home Government and sent to Hong Kong 1847. Hong Kong Government, Colonial Surgeon [1] 1847-53. Died from an abscess of the liver (or of malarial fever) and was buried at the Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley 1853.

[1] Morrison was the first London appointed Colonial Surgeon. He was said to have a thriving medical practice in England before accepting the engagement in Hong Kong. Records show that his salary was raised by £100 in 1848. Colonial Surgeon in Hong Kong at the time was permitted to run his private practice simultaneously while holding the public office. Morrison was most oftenly accused of ignoring the office of the Colonial Surgeon while focusing only in his very lucrative private practice.

Morrison, John (1921)

updated

MBBS (Edin.) 1907. Registered to practice Hong Kong September 16, 1921. Private practitioner, address: Union Building 1921. Residence: Hotel Mansions 1921.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 16, 1921, Notice #391.

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.

Moore, Philip 毛文奇 (1939-EOP)

updated August 12, 2013.

A prominent Asian Art Collector.

Philip Moore

Born Mao Wen-cee 毛文奇^[1]. b. September 5, 1915, Shanghai – d. 2004, Hong Kong. MBBS (HK) December 20, 1938. FRCS (Edin.) 1947.

HONG KONG. Registered to practice January 26, 1939 through EOP. Hong Kong Univ., resident, Queen Mary Hospital, later Kowloon Hospital 1950-1955. Founding Member, Society of Anesthetists of Hong Kong. President, HKCMA 1960-62. Private practitioner 1955, retired 1980s. Address: c/o Dr. B. Chu, G/F, #9 Dragon Terrace 1939-EOP.

Soon after graduating from HKU, he joined the Chinese Red Cross Relief Corps and went to China to work in the war zones, returning to Hong Kong after the city has fallen to the Japanese. Altogether Mao was with the Red Cross for 6 years (1939-1945).

s/o [s.n.] (Chinese doctor practiced in Hawaii [n.d.]) and [s.n.] (art student in Japan [n.d.]).
m. Barbara Chu 1940; leading gynecologist in Hong Kong; examiner for gynecology in HKU.

[Mao had a profound interest in Aisan art and has beccome a  prominent collector as well as a scholar in that field. His enthusiasm was clearly manifested by his involvement in the leading organizations promoting Asian art and history: member, Oriental Ceramic Society in London (since 1965); founding President, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong (1974-1977), ; Honorary Advisor, Hong Kong Museum of Art (1974-2004); Chairman, Min Chiu Society 敏求精舍(1969-1971, 1974-1975); Founder and first Chairman (1980-1997), Chairman emeritus (since 1997), East Asian History of Science Foundation 香港東亞科學史基金會.]

[1] When attending an English public school in Shanghai, Mao anglicized his surname to Moore.

Montgomery, John Howard (1926-1945)

updated March 12, 2014.

John Howard Montgomery (front row, 2nd left, dressed in light color suit) in 1908 photo titled "Mission Council, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, January 1908". Credit: University of Southern California Libraries.

b. June 21, 1878, Antrim, Northern Ireland - d. February 26, 1966., bur. Clandeboye Cemetery, Bangor, Northern Ireland. Campbell College and Queen's College, Belfast; MB, ChB (Edin.) 1902. Private practice, assisted a Dr. E. J. W. Carruthers, of Cheshire, 1902-04; Medical Missionary 1905, China. English Presbyterian Mission, Changpoo, or Changpu, (Zhangpu) 福建省漳浦縣, near Amoy (Xiamen) 廈門市. Member, Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions Committee (China) January 1908; member, Mission Council, Amoy Hong Kong 1926. British Medical Association. Honor: Hong Kong Defense Medal (1951). Retired to Ireland, address: #44 Bawnmore Road, Belfast.

HONG KONG 1926. Registered to practice June 30, 1926. Medical Superintendent, Matilda Hospital 1926-45. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned, Medical Officer In Charge, Matilda Relieve Hospital; later Stanley Camp.

s/o Very Rev. Dr. Henry Montgomery (of Lower Crescent, Belfast; MA) and Euphemia Anna Gowdy. Siblings: 1. Elizabeth Joy Montgomery (b.1870, Bangor; m. Henry Thedore Hodgkin 1903); 2. Eleanor Agnes Montgomery (b.1871, Bangor); 3. Henry Theodore Montgomery (b.1873, Bangor); 4. Robert Montgomery (b.1880, Belfast).
m. Ida Rebecca Latimer November 24, 1905; b.1877-d.1960; d/o Rev J. Latimer ( of Groomsport, Ireland; MA); Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Lady Supervisor, Matilda Relieve Hospital. Had issues: 1. Terence H.L. Montgomery (b.1906-d.1962; MB, DPH, DTMH); 2. Irene Montgomery (b.1907-d.1997);

Desmond Alan Dill Montgomery. Credit: British Medical Journal.

3. Desmond Alan Dill Montgomery (b.1916, China – d. July 7, 2003; FRCP; Consultant Physician, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast 1951; Honorary Professor of Endocrinology, Queen's University, Belfast; m. Susan [s.n.]; had issues: two [s.n.]).

Publications: The Diagnosis of Nasopharyngeal Malignant Turmors, The Bulletin of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association 香港中華醫學會醫刊, April, 1949.

[Montgomery pioneered the radium cancer treatment in 1929 and later gave treatment to patients at other Hong Kong hospitals as well. In July 1937, the hospital trustees decided to donate the Matilda’s radium to the government.]

[I know not why Montgomery was newsworthy, plainly for a minor car accident. The front page of the China Mail of July 3, 1923, carried a story titled “Dr. Montgomery in Collision”. It said that the good doctor's car came into collision with with a car owned by Mr. Lee of #25 Seymour Road, when driving up the Repulse Road. The offside mudguard, head lamp and axle of Montgomery's care was damaged. It must have been a very slow day for newsies in Hong Kong.]

Selected bibliography: Bondfield, G.H. (Ed.), The Mission Year Book: being The Christian Movement in China 1912, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, 1912. The British Medical Journal, August 16, 2003, p.398. The Hong Kong government Gazette, July 2, 1926, #351. Lennon Wylie › Campbell College Register 1894-1954 [internet]. Lucas, Edward Verall, Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-07. Matilda International Hospital [internet]. RootChat.com [internet]. The Silver Bowl [internet].

Monteith, Hugh Glencairn (1919)

updated November 12, 2013.

Hugh Glencairn Monteith ca.1907

b. May 11, 1882, Moniaive, Glencairn, Dumfries, Scotland – d. October 10, 1963, Truro, Cornwall, England. Fettes College; BA, BSc (Cantab.) 1902; studied medicine at Pembroke College, Cambridge. RAMC, Lieutenant July 29, 1910. Captain January 29, 1914. Acting Lieutenant-Colonel July 1, 1917 - March 17, 1919. Hong Kong nlt.1919, 47th Field Ambulance [1]. Acting Lieutenant-Colonel July 10, 1919. Major July 29, 1922. Deputy Assistant Director, Medical Services January 19, 1934. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel May 1, 1934. Colonel January 1, 1937. Director of Medical Services, Army in Burma, 1938-40. Retired, May 1, 1940. Honor: DSO 1915 [2]; MID (2) January 1, 1916 and July 10, 1919; OBE net1919-nlt1924.

HONG KONG nlt.1919. Acting member of the Medical Board and Acting Medical Officer of Health (vice Alice Deborah Sibree) August 12, 1919.

s/o Rev. John Monteith, b.1837-d.1886, of Glencairn Parish and Ellen Maria Neve, b.ca.1844-d.1912. Siblings: 1. John Cassels Monteith. 2. William Neve Monteith [3]. 3. Muriel Monteith [4].
m. Dorothy Huntly Dunell 1915. Had issues: 1. Ronald Hugh Monteith [5]. 2. Cynthia Helen Monteith, m. John William Maxwell Aitken [6] 1939.

[Monteith started playing rugby while studying at Cambridge. He played for the Scottish (National) Rugby Team from 1905 to 1908, and was listed in 1905 as an army player with eight international caps.]

[Monteith could possibly be the only Medical Officer of Health in Hong Kong who didn't have a medical degree. Should I keep him in this roll if he wasn't a doctor? I suppose there is no urgency in making a decision now.]

[1] RAMC provided non-emergency ambulatory assistance to the Hong Kong Fire Services prior to 1953.

[2] "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in picking up and attending to the wounded under heavy fire in the actions near St. Jean and Wieltje, east of Ypres, between 23rd and 27th April, 1915, when the casualties in the battalion to which he was attached were very heavy.", The London Gazette, September 14, 1915, p.9176.

[3] He lost two brothers in the Great War, who were killed within a week of each other: John Cassels Monteith, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire (K.I.A. October 1, 1915); and William Neve Monteith, Lieutenant (Reverend) of the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigate (The Prince Consort's Own)(K.I.A. September 25, 1919). The two were respectively the first and second son of his father.

[4] Muriel Monteith, b.ca.1882-d.1964; m. Lieutenant Colonel Jack Balfour Paul, DSO; had issues: 1. Hugh Glencairn Balfour Paul, British Ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia; historian (specialized in the Middle East) and poet.

[5] Ronald Hugh Monteith, b.1918. Grenadier Guards, Cadet; Second Lieutenant September 21, 1940; Captain; died on active service (said to be as a result of accident in scout car and tank transporter), Rhineland; bur. Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

[6] John William Maxwell Aitken, a Canadian, was, among other offices held, Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick. He was an extraordinary British life peer who disclaimed his barony title three days after he inherited it from his father.

Selected bibliography: Army Rugby Union › International Caps – Army Players [internet]. ESPN › Scrum › Scotland › Players & Officials [internet]. British Military List 1939. Family Search – Community Trees [internet]. Goalserve.com [intrnet]. Grenadier Guards Officers Casualties- WWII [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, August 22, 1919, Appointment #379; August 29, 1919, Appointment #398. The London Gazete, March 16, 1934; May 8, 1934; May 7, 1940. Medical and Sanitary Reports for the Year 1919, Hong Kong. The Peerage [internet]. Roll of Honor › Dumfrieshire › Moniaive War Memorial [internet]. Supplement to the London Gazette, July 10, 1919. p.8774; October 1, 1940, p.5775. University of Glasgow › Name Search › Special Collection [internet].

Mok Tai-tim (1924-EOP)

updated August 12, 2013

MBBS (HK) December 1923. Registered to practice Hong Kong January 18, 1924 through EOP. Ho Miu Ling Hospital 1924. Private practitioner, net.1924, address: #40 Des Voeux Road Central 1941. Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, HKCMA 1925.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 18, 1924, Notice #30; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Mok Hing-fai 莫慶輝 (1931-EOP)

updated August 12, 2013

MBBS (HK) November 1930. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 9, 1930 through EOP. Private practitioner, address: 1/F, #37 Des Voeux Road Central 1931. Residence: 2A, Block C, Broom Road 1941.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 9, 1931, Notice #26; May 9, 1941, Notice #558.

Mitchell, Eleanor Whitworth (née Perkins) (1910)

see Perkins, Eleanor Whitworth

Mitchell, Isaiah Edward (1907)

updated

BA, MD, CM (Montreal) June 1903. Missionary. London Missionary Society. China 1904. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 7, 1907. London Missionary, address: #6 Bonham Road 1907.

m. Eleanor Whitworth Perkins.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 10, 1907, Notice #335.