Uttley, Kenneth Harrison (1929-1955)

updated October 17, 2013

b. January 24, 1901 - d. May 22, 1972, bur. St Mary Church, Pyrton, Oxfordshire. Leys School and Caius College, Cambridge. MRCS (Eng.) 1925; LRCP (Lond.) 1925; MB, ChB 1928, MD August 4, 1934 (Cantab.); DTMH (Lond.) 1928. Hong Kong 1929-55. British West Indies 1955. Chief Medical Officer, Antigua 1955-1966. England 1966. Vicar of Purton, Oxfordshire [n.d.]. Publications: Mortality from Cerebrospinal Fever in Hong Kong, Journal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1938, Vol. #32, Issue #2, pp.287-292. Studies in Tuberculosis in Hong Kong, British Journal of Hygiene, March 1938, Vol. #38, Issue #2, pp.150-170. The Epidemiology of Bubonic Plague in Hong Kong, The Caduceus, February 1939, Vol. #17, Issue #1, pp.1-20. My Internment Diary, December 8 1941 to the Liberation 1945, Phodes House Library, Oxford, MSS.Ind.Ocn.s.223. The Cancer Death Rate in the Colored Population of Antigua, West Indies, Over the Last Seventy Years, British Journal of Cancer, June 1959, Vol. #13, Issue #2, pp.153-163. The Epidemiology of Puerperal Fever and Maternal Mortality in Antigua, West Indies, Over the Last Hundred Years, British Journal of Gynecology, December 1959, Vol. #66, Issue #6, pp.954-960. Honor: The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer January 6, 1959; Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO), Queen's Birthday 1963.

HONG KONG 1929. Government doctor 1929-1955. District Medical Officer; Medical Officer, Victoria General and Maternity Hospital - March 25, 1930. Medical Officer, Kowloon Hospital March 25, 1930. Railway Medical Officer March 28, 1930 - 1932. Medical Officer, Venereal Diseases Clinics [n.d.] - April 1, 1930; Deputy Registrar of Birth and Deaths March 1, 1932. Medical Officer In-Charge, Government Civil Hospital February 14 - October 14, 1936. Senior Medical Officer April 1, 1941. Nutrition Research Committee 1939. JP (official) 1936-39. Battle of Hong Kong, surrendered (as the Medical Officer In-Charge) the Kowloon Hospital to the Japanese invasion force December 12, 1941 [1], one day ahead of the fall of Kowloon, and 13 days ahead of the surrender ordered by Governor and Commander-In-Chief of the British Forces Mark Aitchison Young on Christmas Day. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned Argyle Street Camp (POW) December 24, 1941, Stanley Camp (civilians) January 23, 1942-1945; Medical Officer In-Charge, Tweed Bay Hospital. Studied priesthood during internment; ordained priest, Hong Kong Anglican Church 1954. Retired from Hong Kong Civil Service 1955.

s/o Frank Uttley, Methodist minister.
m. Helen Marion Uttley, b.1899-d.1978. Had issues: 1. son [s.n.]; 2. daughter [s.n.].

[1] Uttley had a note sent to the Japanese commander [s.n.] offering to surrender the hospital. They were ordered to hoist the Japanese flag, and later on that day a Japanese medical officer arrived and took command of the hospital. Several Japanese officers visited the hospital on December 15 and brought with them a sack of rice, some vegetables and sugar, and oddly a few cigars and offered them to the captives. By December 22, all the medical personnel were removed from the hospital, some to the Kowloon Hotel, others to YMCA. There was no mention of the whereabouts of the patients. The Kowloon Hospital remained in the hands of the Japanese Army until it was reclaimed by Isaac Newton with the keen assistance and armed support of three British officers and a detachment of ten Indian soldiers on September 5, 1945, six days after the Liberation of Hong Kong.

Selected bibliography: Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) September 6, 1945, p.1, Jap Looters Thwarted at Hospital. The British Medical Journal, August 18, 1934, p.333. Find A Grave [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, 1932, March 11 (#158); 1936, February 28 (#201); 1941, July 4 ( #800). Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Report for the Year 1930. The London Gazette, January 13, 1959, p.309. Return of Municipalities, Local Boards and Other Public Bodies in the Colony the Year 1939. Roland, Charles G., Long Night's Journey into Day: Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945, Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2001. Supplement to the London Gazette, June 8, 1963, p.4817. US National Library of Medicine [internet].

[Proactive research ended October 17, 2013.]

Woosnam, Richard 吳士南 (1841)

updated November 25, 2013

BA 1840, MA 1845 (Cantab.)(Gonville and Caius College); MRCS. Bombay Army 1840-59, Surgeon, June 20, 1840, posted at Aden. Surgeon to Henry Pottinger, British Plenipotentiary to China 1841. Hong Kong 1841-1844. Secretary to Henry Pottinger, when High Commissioner at Cape of Good Hope, and Governor of Madras. Retired to Glandwr, Llanidloes, Wales 1859. Resided at Knapp Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham 1862. JP, Breconshire. Magistrate, Brecknock and Montgomery. Chairman, combined school-boards of the borough and parish of Llanidloes. High Sheriff, Montgomeryshire 1878. Honor: China War Medal (1842) 1843.

HONG KONG 1841 - May 1844. Surgeon to Henry Pottinger, British Plenipotentiary to China, second Administrator of Hong Kong, August 1841 – June 1843 and first Governor of Hong Kong, June 1843 - May 1844. Assistant Secretary of Legation. Deputy Colonial Secretary. JP (official) 1843, one of the first 44 JPs appointed for Hong Kong.

b. April 9, 1815, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, Wales - d. November 27, 1888, Tyn-y-graig, Co. Brecon (or Builth), bur. Llanidloes. s/o Bowen Woosnam (solicitor; first Mayor of Glandwr, Llanidloes, Montgom) and Elizabeth Cole. Siblings: 1. Charles Thomas Woosnam, solicitor. 2. James Bowen Woosnam, b.1812 [1]. 4. Elizabeth Alice Woosnam, m. Rev. George Fisher, of the Royal Hospital Greenwich.
m. Margaret Bell; d/o William Bell, of Co. Kildare. Had issues: 1. Margaret Helena Woosnam, b.1847-d.1928. 2. Caroline Eliza Woosnam, b.1849. 3. Bowen Pottinger Woosnam, b.1850-d.1909. 4. Richard Burgass Woosnam, b. September 19, 1851, Madras; BA 1874; solicitor, address: Newton Abbot, Devon. 5. Charles William Woosnam, b.1854-d.1920. 6. Mary Woosnam, b.1857.

[Woosnam owned two house situated (easternmost) on Queen's Road nlt. 1860. He gave instructions to Jardine, Matheson & Co., as his agent, to dispose of these properties on July 9, 1862].

[1] James Bowen Woosnam was in the army and his final rank was Army Major-General, Inspector-General of Ordnance. He married Agnes Bell, sister of Margaret Bell, Richard Woosnam's wife. They lived in India between 1841 and 1860, and raised six daughters and two sons, all born in India. Their second daughter Esther (Etty), d.1842, was the author of two notable books about women in the Bible: Women of the Bible, Old Testament (London: Partridge, 1881) and Women of the Bible, New Testament (London: Partridge, 1885).

Selected bibliography: The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia, September - December, 1840, London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1840. Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College: 1349-1895. Calendar of Probates and Administration Granted by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong during the Year 1892. de Groot, Christiana (Ed.), Taylor, Marion Ann (Ed.), Recovering Nineteenth-century Women Interpreters of the Bible, [s.l.]:Society of Biblical  Literature, 2007. Janus: the Jardine Matheson Archive [internet]. The Peerage [internet]. rootsweb [internet].

Woods, Frederick Lindsay (1912)

updated

MBBS (Cantab) 1905. Registered to practice Hong Kong August 8, 1912.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette August 9, 1912, Notice #245.

Wan Yik-shing (1925)

updated

MRCS (Eng.) 1918; LRCP (Lond.) 1918; BS 1921, MB 1924 (Cantab.). Registered to practice Hong Kong September 30, 1921; re-registered November 14, 1941. Engaged by School of Pathology, HKU 1941. Residence: #20 Caine Road 1921.

[The names of Wan Yik-shing and Kuo Shao-hong were the last two entries in the Medical Register in 1941. Hong Kong came under the attack of the Japanese on December 8, 1941. What puzzles me is that Wan's name appeared on the medical register without interruption ever since his first registration in 1921. The need to re-register is unknown to me.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 30, 1921, Notice #402; November 21, 1941, item #1399.

Taylor, Eric Stuart (1920)

updated July 8, 2013

b.1889-d.1977. 2nd Baronet of Kennington July 11, 1917. BS 1913, MD 1919 (Cantab.); MRCS (Eng.); LRCP (Lond.). Captain RAMC, retired. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 7, 1920. Private practitioner, address: Union Building 1921. Honor: OBE 1919. Residence: Hotel Mansions 1920.

s/o Frederick Taylor, 1st Baronet of Kennington, FRCP.
m. Evelyn Therese 1920. Had issue: Richard Laurence Stuart Taylor, b.1925, and Lesley Evelyn Stuart.

Selected bibliography: Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles, Armorial Families : a Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, Vol. #2, Edinburgh: T.C. &E.C. Jack. / The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 7, 1920, Notice #266.

Shore, Lewis Rudall (1936-45+)

updated October 10, 2013.

b. February 16, 1889 -d.1950. BA 1911, MA, ChB 1918, MB 1919 (Cantab.); MD (Lond.); MRCS, LRCP 1913; MRCP 1921; DPH 1925. RAMC, Lieutenant January 30, 1914; Captain March 30, 1915.. The Great War, twice wounded. Senior Lecturer, Witwaterstrand University 1927-31. Demonstrator in Anatomy, Cambridge University 1933-36. Hong Kong nlt.1936. Professor of Anatomy 1936-45; Dean, Faculty of Medicine 1939, HKU. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned 1942-45. Honor: Military Cross 1916.

Siblings: T.H.Gostwyck Shore, MD; FRCP.
m. Christina, June 29, 1921; d/o Robert Aitken McCallum, of Putney Hill, merchant.

[Shore's uncle, Lewis Erle Shore, was lecturer in physiology at Cambridge 1896-1933.]

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, December 30, 1961, p.1790, Obituary. Dulwich College (London) Register, 1619-1926, p.385. The Edinburgh Gazette, June 5, 1916, p.1003. Evans , Dafydd Emrys, Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. The London Gazette, February 20, 1914, p.1373. The Official Website of the University of Hong Kong..

Lancaster, Raymond Lancelot (1941-EOP)

updated

MRCS (Eng.) 1924; LRCP (Lond.) 1924; MBBS, (Cantab.) 1927. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 29, 1941. Bowen Road Hospital 1941.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 30, 1941, Notice #675.

Clark, Francis William (1895-1922)

Francis W. Clark

updated

Hong Kong's First Medical Officer of Health.

b. June 23, 1864. MRCS, LRCP (Lond.) 1886; (Cantab.), DPH 1891, MB 1892; MD (Durham) 1900. Trained at St. Bartholomew and Middlesex Hospitals. Lowestaff, Superintendent of the Fever Hospital; Medical Officer of Health. Hong Kong 1895. Hong Kong Government, Hong Kong's first Medical Office of Health 1895; Principal Medical Office of Health 1905-06. HKCMC, Dean 1907-15; Lecturer in Diseases of Tropical Climates 1909-12, Hygiene 1897-1906, Physiology 1896-99. One of the nine teaching staff transferred to the Faculty of Medicine, HKU in 1912 [1]. HKU, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence; Dean, Faculty of Medicine 1912-15; Life Member, University Court 1911; University Senate 1912. Sanitary Board. Acting Colonial Veterinary Surgeon (vice Adam Gibson, MRCVS, absence on leave) March 20, 1907, August 24, 1910. Director, Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund (vice David Wood) April 18, 1907. JP (official) 1896. Secretary-Treasurer General, Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine 1912. Legislative Council 1902. Honorary Treasurer, Church Body 1909. Club: Corinthian Yacht Club, commodore; Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club; Hong Kong Club. Left Hong Kong 1922. Consular Medical Officer, Mukden, later Weihaiwei.

[1] HKCMC teaches transferred to the staff of the Faculty of Medicine, HKU in 1912 were: Francis William Clark, Charles Forsyth, Arthur C. Franklin, Gregory Paul Jordan, Frederick Theobald Keyt, Wilfred Vincent Miller Koch, Harold MacFarlane, Oswald Marriott and Wilfred William Pearse.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 12, 1907, Appt. #240; April 19, 1907, Appt. #265; April 23, 1909, Notice #251; August 26, 1910, Appt. #263.

Barnett, Bertram Leeds Thomas (1902)

updated

b.1875 – d. April 18, 1915, Farmham, Surrey, Sussex; bur. Aldershot Military Cemetary, Hampshire. BA, MB (Cantab.); MRCS; LRCP; DHP. Hong Kong nlt.1902. Hong Kong Government, Assistant Medical Officer of Health April 1902. Secretary, Board of Examiners [1]. Left Hong Kong bef.1909. Admitted to practice as a solicitor England November 1909. RASC, Captain, 2nd County of London 1909; Temporary Captain November 14, 1914, January 18, 1915. Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire 1910s. Killed accidentally (how unspecified) April 18, 1915.

s/o Thomas and Sarah Barnett, of Holm Leas, Worthing, Sussex.

[1] The Board of Examiners was established in 1903 by the Hong Kong Council of the Sanitary Institute. The Board was to institutionalize an examination mechanism for sanitary officers in Hong Kong.

Selected bibliography: flickr.com › red-eye [internet]. Geni.com [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 25, 1903, Notice #628. The London Gazette, November 17, 1914; January 29, 1915. Record of Service of Solicitors and Articled Clerks with His Majesty's Forces, 1914-1919, London: 1920. Roll of Honor › Cambridgeshire › Ely – WWI [internet]. Supplement to the Journal of the Sanitary Institute, Vol. #XXV, April 1904, London: The Sanitary Institute, 1904.

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.

Atkinson, John Mitford (1887-1912)

John M. Atkinson

updated September 1, 2013

b. December 3, 1856 – d. May 23, 1917, London. MB (Lond.) 1881; MBCS, (Eng.); LSA (Lond.) 1878; DPH (Cantab.) 1894. Resident Medical Officer, St. Mary Abbott's Infirmary, Kensington 1878-85. Medical Officer, No. 3 District St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington 1885-87. Hong Kong November 17, 1887. Hong Kong Government, Supeerintendent, Government Civil Hospital and Medical Officer, Small-pox Hospital and Government Lunatic Asylums 1887; Acting Colonial Surgeon 1895; Principal Civil Medical Officer and President, Sanitary Board 1897-1912; Legislative and Executive Councils 1903-12. Public Vaccinator September 12, 1891. Helped found Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, Barker Road 1897. Lecturer in Physiology, HKCMC [n.d.]-1891. Received commendation from Secretary of State for services during plague 1898. FRCI 1887. President, Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine 1912. Retired, London 1912 after 25 years in Hong Kong. RAMC, Major July 26, 1915; head of the Richmond Military Hospital 1915; resigned, spring 1916. Publications: Plague Procedure in Hong Kong, British Medical Journal December 15, 1906. Club: Hong Kong Club.

s/o Rev. S. Atkinson.

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, September 19, 1891, Notice #389.