Sunday, April 13, 2014

The Medical Board

updated April 14, 2014.

Medical Board Appointments

The Ex-Officio Members were: The Principal Naval Medical Officer (represented by Senior Naval Medical Officer from 1897), the Principal Military Medical Officer [always an army doctor] (represented by Senior Military Medical Officer from 1897) and the Colonial Surgeon (styled as Principal Civil Medical Officer from 1897; Director of Medical and Sanitary Services from 1928 and Director of Medical Services from 1936).

N.B. Records from 1914 that I have consulted made no reference to in whose place a new member was appointed. I'll need some time to look for new information.


YearMedical PractitionersCommunity RepresentativesRemarks
1884William McKnight Hartigan (Honorary Secretary)
William Keswick (grandnephew of William Jardine, 9th Tai-pan of Jardine Matheson & Co.; LegCo.) Chairman
Thomas Jackson (Chief Manager, HSBC)
Henry Liston Dalrymple (merchant, partner in the trading firm of Birley, Dalrymple & Co.)
The first Board was appointed 1884/4/10.
It is plainly apparent that HSBC representation completely dominated the Board: Keswich was HSBC Chairman 1880-81, so was Dalrymple 1882-83. Jackson was HSBC's Chief Manager, and Hartigan its company doctor. The older sister of Hartigan's wife had married Jackson.
1886
Hartigan
Patrick Manson (vice Jackson, 8/12/1886)
Dalrymple
John Bell-Irving (Jardine, Matheson & Co.; LegCo.; vice Keswick 8/12/1886)
1887Hartigan
Manson
Dalrymple
Bell-Irving
James Cantlie (acting, vice Hartigan, aol 1887/11/30)
1890
Hartigan
Ho Kai vice Manson 1890/3/28
Dalrymple
Nathaniel Joseph Ede (Manager, Union Insurance Society of Canton) vice Bell-Irving 1890/3/28
[The Colonial Surgeon had assumed the chairmanship of the Board when the Jardine Tai-pan was no longer represented in the Board.]
Ho Kai was the first Chinese appointed.
1893dittodittoAlexender Mitchell Cowie (acting, vice Hartigan, aol [n.d.])
1897dittodittoThe position of Chairman was restyled President
1899ditto
Dalrymple
Edward Osborne  (Secretary, Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.; LegCo; later Mayor of Hythe, Kent) vice Ede 1899/1/18
Frederic Osmund Stedman (acting, vice Hartigan 1899/1/18)
1900ditto
Osborne
Angus McPherson Marshall vice Dalrymple, deceased, 1900/5/4
 
1901dittoEdward Osborne
Charles Stewart Sharp (merchant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.; Chairman, HKGCC; LegCo; ExCo.) vice Marshall, resigned, 1901/5/1
 
1902Ho Kai
Frederic O. Stedman (vice Hartigan, resigned 1902/7/26; Secretary)
ditto 
1904Ho Kai
Alexander Rennie (vice Stedman, resigned 1904/11/2; Secretary)
Gershom Stewart (vice Osborne 1904/2/29)(bill borker; LegCo)
Edbert Ansger Hewett (vice Sharp 1904/4/29)(P. & O. Steam Navigation Co.; LegCo)
 
1905Ho Kai
Frederic O. Stedman (vice Rennie, resigned 1905/12/6; Secretary)
dittoHenry Adolphus Warre Slade (acting, vice Hewett, aol, 1905/3/28)(merchant, Gilman & Co.)
1908dittoEdbert A. Hewett
Murray Stewart (vice Gershom Stewart 1908/7/22)(Stewart Bros.; LegCo)
Henry A.W. Slade (acting, vice Hewett, aol, 1909/3/12)
Murray Stewart was the last appointed community representative who sat on the Legislative Council.
1909dittodittoGeorge Montague Harston (acting, vice Stedman 1909/4/6)
Gideon Balloch (acting, vice Slade, aol, 1909/10/25)(merchant, Gilman & Co.)
1911dittoEdbert A. Hewett
Murray Stewart
Walter Leslie Pattenden (vice Murray Stewart 1911/6/20)(merchant, Gilman & Co.)
 
1912dittodittoGerard Hall Lloyd Fitzwilliams (acting, vice Hewett, aol 1912/5/11)
George M. Harston (vice Stedman, aol, 1912/6/1)
1913dittodittoGeorge Ernest Aubrey (acting, vice Stewart, aol, 1913/1/24)
1914Frederic O. Stedman
Stanley Hudson Dodwell (vice Ho Kai, deceased 1914/11/16)
ditto
 
 
1915dittoWalter L. Pattenden
Herbert William Looker (vice Hewett, deceased 1915/12/10)(Partner, Deacon, Looker & Deacon, Solicitors)
 
1916Frederic O. Stedman
George E. Aubrey?? (1916/11/28)
ditto 
1917George E. Aubrey
Oswald Marriott (vice Stedman 1917/10/15)
Kenelm Hutchison Digby (vice Pattenden 1917/10/12)
Herbert W. Looker
 
Oswald Marriott (acting, vice Stedman, aol, 1917/4/27)
Herbert Johnson Gedge (acting, vice Looker, aol 1917/6/5)(Partner, Johnson, Stokes & Master, Solicitors)
Stuart Seguin Strahan (acting, vice [s.n.] 1917/11/22)??
1918Kenelm Hutchison Digby
Robert Maclean Gibson (vice Aubrey 1918/1/30)
Daisy Annabela Murdoch Gales (vice Marriott 1918/1/30)
dittoJames Herbert Sanders (acting ,vice Gibson 1918/5/27)
Herbert Gastineau Earle (acting, vice Digby 1918/12/19)
Gales was the first woman appointed
1919Kenelm H. Digby
Alice Deborah Hickling (vice Gales, resigned 1919/2/26)
Herbert J. Gedge (vice Looker, resigned 1918/12/23)George Harold Thomas (acting, vice Sanders 1919/2/9)
1920Kenelm H. Digby
Stuat S. Strahan (from 1918 or 1917)??
Charles Alexander Hooper (vice Gedge, resigned 1920/5/6)(solicitor; rugby player, the Barbarians) 
1921Kenelm H. Digby
Alice D. Hickling
James Cyril Dalmahoy Allan (vice Strahan 1921/3/24)
Woo Tin-po (1921/10/28)??
 Oswald Mariott (1921/10/28)??
1923digby /allan / woo
George Duncan Ralph Black (1923/3/1)
Daniel John Lewis (1923/4/7)
Herbert G. Earle (acting, vice Digby, aol 1923/5/11)
1924digby/allan (3 more years) /woo (3 more years)  
1926digby / black /
Stragan (1926/9/14)
woo
George Gwinnett Noble Tinson (1926/4/7)(Partner, Johnson, Stokes & Master, Solicitors) 
1927black
woo (3 more years)
dittoHermann Balean (acting, vice Black 1927/10/25)
1929woo
black (3 more years)
strahan (3 more years)
digby (3 more years)
ditto (3 more year) 
1930Tseung Fat-im (3 years)  
1931digby
Strahan
Black
Tseung Fat-im
Maurice Murray Watson (Honorary Secretary) 
1932digby
Strahan
James William Anderson
Tseung Fat-im
ditto 
1933digby
Li Shu-fan
John Cecil Macgown
Tsuen Fat-im
ditto 
1934digby
Li Shu-fan
James William Anderson
Tseung Fat-im
ditto 
1935Black
William Innes Gerrard
Tseung Fat-im
Li Shu-fan
 
ditto 
1936Black
William Innes Gerrard
Chau Sik-nin
ditto 
1937George D.R. Black
Chau Sik-nin
Li Shu-fan (vice Gerrard)
dittoHerman Balean (acting, vice Black, aol 1937/4/30)
1938Herman Balean (vice Black 1938/3/17)
Li Shu-fan
Chau Sik-nin
 
Donald Brittan Evans
(1938/3/5)
 
1939Herman Balean
Chau Sik-nin
Chau Wai-cheung (vice Li Shu-fan 1939/4/5)
Maurice M. Watson (1939/3/29) 
1940Herman Balean
Chau Wai-cheung
Chau Sik-nin
Lewis Rudall Shore (January 19, 1940)
 
Maurice M. Watson 

- TO BE COMPLETED -


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