Laing, Ernest Alexander Ronald (1902-1905)

updated November 1, 2013

LRCP; LRCS. Hong Kong nlt.1902-05, government doctor. England 1906. Certifying Surgeon, Rochford, Essex July 9, 1906 (appointed by Factory Department, Home Office). Private practitioner, Rochford, Drs. Lewis (Arthur Cedric) and Laing [n.d.] - October 13, 1908.

HONG KONG nlt.1902. Government doctor 1902-05. Assistant Surgeon, Medical Department February 27, 1902. Medical Office In-Charge, Government Lunatic Asylums 1902. Assistant Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital [n.d.]– July 1905. JP (official) 1903-05. Lieutenant (Supernumerary Medical Officer), HKVDC December 4, 1903 – June 29, 1905, resigned. Last record found ex Hong Kong 1905.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Report of the Medical Officer of Health on Plague 1905. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer for the Year 1902. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, 1902, April 18 (#234); 1903, May 8 (#279), December 4 (#803); 1905, June 30 (#407). The London Gazette, July 10, 1906, p.4720; October 27, 1908, p.7790.

[Proactive research ended November 1, 2013.]

Ware, Thomas Walter (1927-1942, 1945-1947)

updated October 30, 2013.

d. August 8, 1890, London - d. February 24, 1956, Sydney. RAMC, Corporal 1910-1913; the Great War. Martyn Memorial Scholarship in clinical pathology 1924, MBChB (Bristol) 1925; DPH (Lond.) 1932. Private practitioner, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1925. Honorary anesthetist, Royal United Hospitals, Bath ca.1926. Colonial Medical Service 1927. Hong Kong 1927-42, government doctor. England 1943-45, Colonial Office, Hong Kong Planning Unit 1943. Hong Kong 1945-47, government doctor. Retired, 1947. Australia [n.d.].

HONG KONG 1927. Government doctor 1927-40. Medical Office In-Charge, Government Civil Hospital 1929. Acting Port Health Officer and Inspector of Emigrants September 21, 1932, March 24, 1933, (vice Joseph Patrick Fehily, absence on leave) October 4, 1934 - [n.d.] and June 29, 1936 - [n.d.], August 6, 1937 - [n.d.]. Acting Medical Office of Health February 1934, July 11, 1934. Second Port Health Officer and Inspector of Emigrants March 12, 1934. Visiting Health Officer Chinese Hospital and Dispensaries 1936. Shanghai Refugees Committee 1937. Health Officer, East January 21 - October 13, 1939. Acting Member, Town Planning Board (pending the arrival of the Deputy Director of Health Services) July 19, 1939. Acting Deputy Director of Health Services August 1, 1939. Honorary Secretary, HKBMA 1928-30. JP (official) 1932 - EOP; Defense Reserve, Key Post Group January 25, 1940. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned 1941-1942; escaped 1942, arrived Calcutta via Macau, Kweilin (Guilin) 桂林, Kungming (Kunming) 昆明, and Chungking (Chongqing) 重慶. England October 1943. Hong Kong August 30, 1945, Lieutenant-Colonel, Civil Affairs Service. Health Officer May 1946. Retired 1947.

m. Muriel Irene Fursdon, 1927, Bristol; b. January 1, 1900, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset - d.1981; d/o John Angell James Fursdon, b.1859, and Ellen (Nellie) Hall, b.1869. Had issue 1. Anthony G. Ware (Rev.), b.Hong Kong; Bristol Univ.; Methodist Lay Preacher; read theology London Univ.; Canada 1957; England 1961; Head of Science Department, Methodist School; Canada 1975; retired 1999; m. Jacqueline; had issues: five children [s.n.].

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, April 14, 1956, p.868, Obituary. The Heard Family Name Index [internet]. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Report for the Year 1936. Hong Kong Government, Report by the Chairman (Mr. W.J. Carie) of the Shanghai Refugees Committee 1937. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, 1932, October 7 (#632); 1933, March 24 (#188); 1934, March 2 (#144), March 16 (#200), July 13 (#532), October 5 (#743); 1936, January 26 (#576); 1937, August 6 (#543); 1939, January 20 (#64), July 21 (#582), August 4 (#628); 1940, January 26 (#105); 1941, May 2 (#521). RTHK › History › Classics Channel [internet]. Supplement to the London Gazette, October 12, 1945, p.5015. The United Church of Canada Maritime Conference 2013, Retirees and Jubilarians of 2013. Ure, Gavin, Governors, Politics and the Colonial Office: Public Policy in Hong Kong 1918-58, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012.

[Proactive research ended October 30, 2013.]

Dovey, John Edward (1929-EOP)

updated October 16, 2013

MBChB (Edin.). Medical missionary. China 1925-26. Hong Kong nlt.1929-net.EOP, government doctor. Honor: The Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother December 20, 1937; Officer June 19, 1941.

HONG KONG nlt.1929. Hong Kong Government 1929-EOP, Medical Officer In-Charge, Kowloon Mortuary 1929; Railway Medical Officer [n.d.] - March 28, 1930; Medical Officer, Kowloon Hospital [n.d.] - March 25, 1930; Medical Officer, Victoria General and Maternity Hospital March 25, 1930; Medical Officer, Venereal Diseases Clinics April 1, 1930; Medical Office In-Charge, Government Civil Hospital September 1932 - February 8, 1934. Medical Officer In-Charge, Victoria General and Maternity Hospital February 24, 1934, January 1 - February 6, 1936. JP (official) September 14, 1932 - EOP. Lecturer in Therapeutics, HKU 1933-34. Defense Reserve, Key Post Group January 25, 1940. Wartime and postwar whereabouts unknown.

m. [s.n.] [1]

[Dovey gave a presentation at the Rotary Club on March 2, 1937 on the topic of "Defense Against Gas"; the speech was illustrated by a number of large models of a De-contamination Station, a gas-proof residence, and other anti-gas equipment. He was earlier sent to Felfield, Gloucestershire to take an intensive course on the subject.]

[There were two other Dovey(s) in Hong Kong around that time. Ernest Roadley Dovey joined the Hong Kong Civil Service as a Government Analyst in the Medical Department in 1915 and held that position until 1932, if not later. He had been a Justice of the Peace since 1922. He was the in Police Reserve and in 1928 was appointed as its Assistant Superintendent, and more interestingly was given the command of the Sharp Shooters' Section. The second Dovey was Dr. (Mrs.) Agnes Lilias Jenkins Dovey, who registered to practice in Hong Kong in 1928, and was in the course of 1928 to 1938 appointed to the Midwives Board, Nurses Board, and as an Inspector of Schools. She served as a Squadron Leader in RAF, attached to Bomer Command Headquarters in WWII. I wonder if the three Dovey(s) were somehow related.]

[1] Dovey was married and his wife was with him in Hong Kong, whether or not she was Agnes Lilias Jenkins is something I must investigate. As in the case of Dovey, Jenkins also received her MB, ChB degrees from the University of Edinburgh.

Selected bibliography: Evans, Dafydd Emrys, Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987, p.266. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 16, 1932, Notice #586; January 26, 1940, Notice #105. The Hong Kong Sunday Herald, February 28, 1937.  The London Gazette, January 4, 1938, p.30; June 27, 1941, p.3674.

Pringle, Leonard Duncan (1935-d.1951, HK)

updated October 16, 2013

b. December 26, 1905 - d. May 25, 1951, Hong Kong, bur. Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley. MRCS (Eng.); LRCP (Lond.). Sometime resident of Finchley, London. Hong Kong nlt.1935-1951.

HONG KONG nlt.1935. Government doctor. Medical Officer In-Charge, Government Civil Hospital January 29 - April 3, 1935. Medical Officer, Kowloon Hospital 1936. Second Port Health Officer and Inspector of Emigrants April 21, 1938. Inspector of Schools June 7, 1938. JP (official) [n.d.]-1938. Defense Reserve, Key Post Group September 14, 1939.

2nd. s/o Edwin P. and Frances Pringle.

Selected bibliography: ancestry.com › Pringle - Family History & Genealogy Message Board [internet]. The British Medical Journal, June 2, 1951, p.1274. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 22, 1938, Appt. #319; June 30, 1938, Appt. #500. September 15, 1939, Notice #801.

[Proactive research ended October 16, 2013.]

Newton, Issac (1926-1952)

updated  October 15, 2013

FRCS (Edin.); MRCS (Eng.); LRCP (Lond.). Hong Kong nlt.1926-52, retired. Publications: Five Years' Progress in the Hong Kong Health Services, British Medical Journal October 27, 1951. Honor: The British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer June 23, 1950.

HONG KONG nlt.1926. Government doctor. Medical Officer, Kowloon and New Territories March 16, 1926. Medical Officer In-Charge, Kowloon Hospital 1927 - February 28, 1929. Medical Officer In-Charge, Government Civil Hospital 1930 - September 1932, April 3, 1935 - February 14, 1936 and October 14, 1936 - April 13, 1937. Surgical Specialist April 1, 1941. JP (official) 1927-EOP. Hong Kong Defense Reserve February 21, 1940. Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, POW 1941-42, Argyle Street Camp, interned 1942-45 Stanley Camp. Director of Medical Services 1946-50. Director of Medical and Health Services 1950-51. Member (official), Legislative Council January 25, 1950-51. Retired from civil service July 1951.

[Newton kept a 148-pages diary covering the dates he was kept as a POW, and later as an internee during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. The original diary is being kept in the British National Archives.]

[Newton was Hong Kong's first post WWII medical chief. I'm almost certain that he was reappointed JP and Legislator during his tenure as medical chief, although I haven't found the confirmation records.]

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Medical Report for the Year 1926; 1927. Hong Kong Government, Medical & Sanitary Report for the Year 1929. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 6, 1927, Appt. #268; February 23, 1940, Notice #220; April 4, 1941, Appt. #370. Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society, Plague, Sars, and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006, p.338. The London Gazette, February 3, 1950, p.594; June 23, 1950, p.3259.

[Proactive research ended October 15, 2013.]

Yeo Kok-cheung 楊國璋 (1926)

Yeo Kok-cheung, Florence Ho-Tung and children, 1937.

updated October 28, 2013.

The first Chinese to be Appointed Director of Medical and Health Services.

Name variations: Yeo Kok-cheang; K.C. Yeo. b. April 1, 1903, Penang - d. May 22, 2004, Battle, East Sussex; MBBS 1925, MD 1930 (HK); DPH (Cantab) 1926; DPMH (Lond.) 1927. registered to practice Hong Kong January 13, 1926. Hong Kong Government, Government Civil Hospital 1926; Assistant Medical Officer of Health 1927; Chinese Health Officer, Senior Grade 1939; Deputy Director of Health Services, Health Adviser to Urban Council 1947; Deputy Director of Medical and Health Services 1950; Director of Medical and Health Services 1952-58 (the first local civil servant to rise to the substantive position of a department director). First Unit Controller, Auxiliary Medical Service 1952. HKU, Lecturer and examiner in Public Health 1928; Lecturer in Public Health 1936-38; Chair Professor of Social Medicine 1952-57. President, HKCMA 1932. JP (official) 1938. Official Member of Legislative Council 1951-57. Vice Chairman of Urban Council. England nlt.1963. Senior Hospital Medical Officer (Psychiatry), St Ebbaís Hospital, Epsom, Surrey 1963. Honor: CMG 1956; WHO Traveling Fellow 1948.

Protestant. s/o Yeu Kim Hong of Penang.
m. Florence Ho-Tung 何孝姿 , March 24, 1933; b.1916; d/o Robert Ho-Tung 何東 and Clara Cheung Ching-yung 張靜蓉.

[Yeo, who lived until 101 years old, claimed himself the holder of the world record in sitting ups for his body weight for several years.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 15, 1926, Notice #25. / The Telegraph, November 13, 2004, Obituaries, K.C. Yeo [internet].

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].

Woo Wai-tak, Arthur 胡惠德 (1919-d.1964)

Arthur Woo

updated October 1, 2013.

Obstetrician and Gynecologist; Rotarian to Rejuvenate the Club after WWII.

Diocesan Boys' School; studied Latin and French in England; trained and qualified at Middlesex Hospital 1913; LRCP (Lond.) January 1913; MRCS (Eng.) January 1913; MBBS (Lond.) May 1916;  FRCS (Eng.) May 12, 1949; FICS (Hon.); studied in New York and Baltimore under a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship, including training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. WWI, military hospitals in Britain. Gravesend General Hospital. General Lyinim Hospital. Brompton Hospital. Obstetric and Gynecological House Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital. Peking (Beijing). First Assistant to Professor J. Preston Maxwell, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Peking Union Medical College 協和醫學院. Medical Advisor to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Transportation, ROC. Personal physician to ROC President Li Yuanhong 黎元洪. Hong Kong nlt.1919. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 9, 1919. Private practitioner 1919, address: China Building. Lecturer in Gynecology and Obstetrics; Internal Examiner, HKU. Private hospital, honorary consulting gynecologist, Nethersole Hospital; Medical Superintendent (and owner), Babington Hospital 惠德頤養院, Babington Path 巴丙頓道. President, HKCMA 1924-25. Council, HKBMA. President, China Medical Association 中國博醫會 1928 [1]. Y's Men's Club, President 1935, 1936; Governor, South China District 1936. International Medical Relief Committee, Founder and Inaugural Chairman 1937. JP (unofficial) 1938. Residence: #11 Old Bailey 1919. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948, address 1: 1/F, Alexandra Building 1948; address 2: Edinburgh House 1960s. Director, St. John Ambulance Association, Hong Kong 1952. Largely responsible for the re-establishment of the Rotary Club of Hong Kong 1945 (the Rotary was initially formed in 1932). Honor: King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935; The British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Associate Serving Brother 1938; Commander 1949. OBE June 10, 1954. Club: Chinese Recreational Club, director.

b. 1888 Hong Kong – d. February 1964 Hong Kong. Protestant, Hong Kong Anglican Church. s/o U I-kai 胡爾楷. Siblings: 1. Katie Woo, PhD. 胡素貞, headmistress of St. Paul’s Girls’ School 1916-52.

Publications: Cervicitis and Its Treatment by the Newer Dyes, [n.l.], 1922. A Study of Three Cases of Leucorrhea, Chinese Medical Journal of China, 1924.

Reverdin's Needle

[Designer of Reverdin-Woo neddle. Woo demonstrated the use of his modification of Reverdin's needle on September 21, 1929 at the Peking Union Medical College. The original Reverdin's needle, a handled needle for surgical use with eye aperture controlled by thumb stud, was invented by Swiss surgeon Jacques L. Reverdin in 1879. The needle is sometime referred to as the Reverdin-Woo needle.]

[Woo went to England in 1921 to receive specialist treatment of undisclosed nature and there was false reports of his death as the result of the treatment.]

[Woo was sued in 1935 by John S.H. Waan, Chinese Secretary to the Italian Consul-General for willful neglect and exposure of a patient, causing grievous injury to health. The patient in question was Wann's 31-month-old daughter, Natalina, who died after having been under the care of Woo. The trial ended after Woo's lawyer submitted no case to answer on the grounds of lack of evidence.]

[1] Woo was the first Chinese elected to the office of President of the China Medical Association 中國博醫會. He was also the last president of the association which in April 1932 amalgamated with the Chinese Medical Association 中華醫學會 and ceased to exist henceforth. The China Medical Association was originally the Medical Missionary Society of Canton founded in February 21, 1838. The words "of Canton" in the name of the society was later replaced by "in China".

Selected bibliography: Address & Papers , Dedication Ceremonies and Medical Conference, Peking Union Medical College, September 15-22, 1921, Peking: Peking Union Medical College, 1922, p.385. British Medical Journal, June 19, 1954, p.1435, Medical Birthday Honors. Carroll, John M., Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong, Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2005. The China Mail, August 4, 1936, p. 7, Y's Men's Club, Dr. Arthur Woo Re-elected. Hong Kong Daily Press, February 4, 1936, p.7, Y's Men's Clubs, Dr. Arthur Woo. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 9, 1919, Notice #205; May 4, 1923, Notice #206; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. The Hong Kong Telegraph, August 15, 1935, p. 7, No Case to Answer, Dr. Arthur Woo Vindicated; September 30, 1937, front page, Coordinating Aid for War Victims, Dr. Arthur Woo Heads Local Organization. London Gazette, January 4, 1938, p.30; June 24, 1949, p.3132. The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, June 21, p.7; August 30, 1935, p.11, Well Known Doctor Sued, Neglect of Baby Patient Alleged.

Wilkinson, Paul Biddulph (1937-48+)

updated September 5, 2013

b.1900d.1975. MBBS (Lond.); LRCP; MRCS; MRCP; FRCS (Eng.). Hong Kong nlt.1937. Hong Kong Government, Medical Officer September 1, 1937; acting Member, Nurses Board (vice William Innes Gerrard, absence on leave) March 17, 1939, March 13, 1941. Acting Professor of Medicine, HKU 1939-EOP, 1946-48. JP (official) 1938-EOP. Wartime whereabouts unknown. Publications: Beriberi in St. Helena: a Clinical Study, [s.i.]: Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., 1938; Asiatic Smallpox, The Lancet, Vol. #241, Issue #6230, January 23, 1943, pp.120-121; Deficiency Diseases in Hong Kong, The Lancet, Vol. #244, Issue #6325, November 18, 1944, pp.655-658. Variations on a Theme by Sydenham. Smallpox, etc., Thomas Sydenham co-author, Bristol: John Wright, 1959.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 14, 1933, Notice #33; September 10, 1937, Notice #644; May 5, 1939, Notice #355; February 28, 1941, Notice #232; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. The Official Website of the Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong [internet].

Tomlinson, Sterling (1939)

updated November 19, 2013.

BA; MBChB; BAO (Dublin).

HONG KONG nlt.1939. Government doctor. Medical Officer January 19, 1939. Medical Officer, Kowloon Hospital 1940. Defense Reserve, Key Post Group September 14, 1939. JP (official) April 30, 1941-EOP. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned with wife and baby 1941-45, War Memorial Hospital (Wife and baby were most probably interned at Stanley Camp.).

m. Heather Foss, St. John's Cathedal February 3, 1940; d/o Dr. E.V. Foss, of Bristol. Had issue: 1. [s.n.].

[While interned during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Tomlinson was invited as a witness at the wedding of Alexander McGregor Mitchell and Amy Matilda Mary Elizabeth Halliday which took place on January 27, 1942 at the St. John's Cathedral.]

Selected bibliography: Emerson, Geofrey Charles, Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. Hong Kong Daily Press, February 5, 1940, p.6. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 27, 1939, #77; September 15, 1939, #801; May 2, 1941, #508. Hong Kong War Diary [internet].

Thomson, John Christopher (1889-1909)

updated August 19, 2013

A Devoted Teacher.

b. June 5, 1863, Lockerbie, Scotland. MA 1884, MB, CM August 1, 1888, MD 1892 (Edin.); CDTC 1904; DPH (Edin.) & (Glas.) 1904. London Missionary Society, medical missionary. Registered to practice in Hong Kong on January 18, 1889 through 1897. London Missionary Society Clinic, address: Po Yee Street, Sai Ying Pun 西營盤普義街 (working with William Young 楊威廉). Superintendent, Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals 1889. Resigned from London Missionary Society 1896. Hong Kong Government, Assistant Colonial Surgeon 1897; Medical Officer and Medical Officer of Health to the Kowloon extension 1898. Surgeon, Tung Wah Hospital 1909. HKCMC: Secretary 1891-94; Treasury and Secretary 1895-1909; Director of Studies 1895-1902; lecturer in Chemistry 1896-97, Chemistry and Physics 1898-1901, Clinical Medicine 1909, Clinical Surgery 1892, Diseases of Tropical Climates 1901-09, Fever 1908, Materia Medica and Therapeutics 1892-96, Physiology 1895-96, Surgery 1896-97. JP (official) 1898. President, HKBMA 1899. Left Hong Kong December 28, 1909 due to ill-health. Publication: Reports on Malaria and on Hong Kong Mosquitoes, Government Gazette. Club: Hong Kong Club.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 19, 1889; May 7, 1898, Notice #212. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Head of the Sanitary Department for the Year 1909. The Straits Times, October 19, 1909, p.6, Social and Personal.

Stedman, Frederic Osmund (1894-1917+)

updated August 28, 2013

Frederic Osmund Stedman

b. December 31, 1862, Tiverton, Devonshire, England – d. February 2, 1927, Weybridge, Surrey. LSA (Lond.) December 23, 1884; MRCS (Eng.) April 30, 1885; BS December 21, 1887, MD December 19, 1888 (Lond.). Charing Cross Hospital, London, house surgeon; house physician; surgeon registrar. House physician, National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy, London. Clinical assistant, Moorefield's Eye Hospital, London. Hong Kong nlt.1894. Registered to practice Hong Kong May 5, 1894. Private practitioner 1894-1917+, founder, Drs. Stedman, Reinnie and Harston, address: Alexandra Building. Supernumerary Surgeon-Lieutenant, HKVDC December 2, 1896. Council, HKBMA 1907-08. Member and secretary, Medical Board December 7, 1908 -1914. Member, Committee of Inquiry into the Adequacy of the Staff of the Medical Department of the Colony 1901. Dental Board 1914-17 [1]. JP (unofficial). Publication: Three Cases Treated by the "X" Rays, British Medical Journal, December 19, 1903. Club: Hong Kong Club. Residence: #6 Queen's Gardens 1894.

s/o Arthur Stedman, surgeon, MRCS, England. Siblings: Savignac Bell Stedman, MD, practiced in Ceylon, died there at the age of 64.

m. Lillian Mabel Lemesurier 1899.

[Stedman was related to Elizabeth Stedman, wife of Thomas Boswell Watson, M.D., who went to Macau in ca.1845 to start up a private practice, and whose family would later founded Watson’s, The Chemist]

[1] Inaugural members of the Dental Board July 17, 1914: John Taylor Connell Johnson (PCMO, ex-official, chairman), George Ernest Aubrey, Frederic Osmund Stedman, Frederick Hoard Kew, Joseph Whittlesey Noble.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 5, 1894, Notice #169; January 18, 1909, Appt. #29; December 8, 1911, Appt. #378; July 17, 1914, Appt. #263.

Smalley, James Thornton (1913-EOP)

Updated August 14, 2013

b.1882-d. August 17, 1961, Cambridge. MRCS (Eng.) 1907; LRCP (Lond.) 1907. Qualified at Guy's Hospital 1907. House Surgeon, East London Hospital 1907. Resident medical officer, Colonial Hospital, Suva, Fiji 1910. Medical Officer of Health and Port Medical Officer, Seonka. Hong Kong 1913. Hong Kong Government, Medical officer in charge of Kowloon and the New Territories May 13, 1913 - November 4, 1922; Medical Officer, Lai Chi Kok Gaol 1921-1922; Second Medical Officer, Government Civil Hospital January 1923. Medical Officer in charge, Kowloon Hospital December 24, 1925 - 1927, 1931-[n.d.]1]; Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer (vice Joseph Bartlett Addison) November 8, 1927 - January 3, 1928; Medical Officer in charge of the Victoria General Maternity Hospital 1927-30; Acting Deputy Director, Medical and Sanitary Services April 10, 1928 – 1940; Senior Medical Officer 1931; Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths June 11, 1937-1940; Acting Director of Medical Services July 21, 1937 – December 3, 1938, November 21, 1938 – 1940. Retired from civil service January 1940. Registered medical practitioner Hong Kong February 6, 1940 through EOP. Private practitioner 1940-EOP. Surgeon-Lieutenant, HKVDC April 7, 1914 - November 29, 1926. HKU, Tutor, Out-Patients Department 1923-24; Acting Lecturer in Hygiene 1923; Lecturer in Pharmacology 1924. JP (official) 1919-40, (unofficial) April 30, 1941 -EOP. Residence, address 1: Knutsford Hotel, Kowloon 1940; address 2: Empress Lodge, Mody Road, Kowloon 1941. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned, with family, Kowloon Hotel 1941-45. Retired to Cambridge after the war. Chairman, Ministry of Pensions Medical Board, Cambridge. Consultant in tropical medicine, East Anglian Regional Hospital Board. Honor: King's Coronation Medal 1937. Unpublished writing: Diary of Work at Kowloon Hospital.

s/o  Major-General Frederick Smalley of Madras Infantry.
m. Ethel Clifford 1910; d/o Captain F.J. Clifford of Kent Regiment. Had issues: 1. Joan Smalley; and 2. Mary Smalley. Related to Rachel Elizabeth Smalley.

[Smalley was injured in a car accident on March 1, 1939 when his car (#652) which he was driving came into collision with another car (#4420) at the corner of Waterloo Road and Argyle Street. Smalley and a woman passenger in the other car were removed to the Kowloon Hospital (of which Smalley was in charge); the condition of both patients, as it was learned later that night, was not serious.]

[Smalley's residence in Mody Road was broken into by a thief on May 7, 1940, who took away a chromium clock, valued at $50.]

[There was a decorated (Distinguished Flying Cross July 30,1940) Royal Air Force pilot existing in the European Theatre of World War II, whose name was James Ralph Thornton Smalley. Might he be Smalley's son?]

[1] Smalley was the first medical officer in charge of the Kowloon Hospital, which opened on Christmas Eve 1925.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, September 2, 1961, p.654, Obit uary: J.T. Smalley. / Evans, Dafydd Emrys, Constancy of Purpose: Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. / Hong Kong Daily Press, January 5, 1935, p.7, Silver Wedding, Dr. & Mrs. J.T. Smalley; March 2, 1939, p.1, Dr. Smalley Injured in Smash; January 20, 1940, p.1, Presentation to Dr. and Mrs. James T. Smalley. / The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 17, 1914, Appt. #142; December 3, 1926, Appt. #660; November 10, 1927, Appt. #655; April 10, 1928, Appt. 181; August 20, 1937, Appt. #578; May 14, 1937, Honors; June 11, 1937, Appt. #405; July 16, 1937, Appt. #490; November 25, 1938, Appt. #906; October 27, 1939, Proclamation; February 7, 1940, Notice #164; May 2, 1941, App.t #508; May 30, 1941, Notice #658. / Hong Kong Medical Report for the Year 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925. / Hong Kong War Diary [internet]. / The London Gazette, October 8, 1940, pp.5901-03.

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.

Minett, Edward Pigott (1922-1931)

updated March 19, 2014.

d. October 5, 1935 Devon. MRCS; LRCP; DPH 1907 (Cantab.); trained at Guy’s Hospital; MD (Brussels) 1907; DTMH 1909. British Guiana, Assistant Government Bacteriologist 1910; Government Bacteriologist and Medical Officer of Health. Honorary Secretary and representative for British Guiana at the West Indian Medical Conference June 28 - July 13, 1921. Honorary Secretary, Fellow, and Examiner, the West Indian Branch of the Royal Sanitary Institute 1922. Hong Kong 1922. Medical Officer of Health, British Guiana. BMA, member since 1909.

HONG KONG 1922. Government doctor, Government Bacteriologist (vice C.Y. Wang, resigned) 1922; Officer In-Charge, Bacteriological Institute 1922. Lecturer and Examiner in Hygiene and Medical Jurisprudence, HKU. Medical Officer, HKVDC. JP (official) 1927. Left Hong Kong 1931.

m. Ethel Mary Minett.

Publications: Further Report on the Nastin and Benzoyl-chloride Treatment for Leprosy at the Mahaica Leper Asylum, British Guiana, 1910-11. (London: Colonial Office, Cd 6023, 1912) Diagnosis of Bacteria and Blood Parasites, Practical Tropical Sanitation 1927 (his wife was a co-author). A Cheap Form of Artesian Water Supply for Villages in the Tropics, A Review of the Water Supplies of Hong Kong.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, October 19, 1935, p.766, Obituary. The China Mail, August 15, 1932, p.6, Dr. E.P. Minett, New Appointment in British Guiana. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 10, 1927, Notice #349.

Mellon, Bagenal Harvey (1921)

updated

MRCS, LRCP (Irel.); DPH (Dubl.) 1917; Army Veterinary Corps [1], Temporary Lieutenant December 16, 1914; Temporary Captain December 16, 1915; Captain 1917. Hong Kong nlt.1921. Hong Kong Government, Second Health Officer of the Port September 28, 1921; Health Officer of Port and Inspector of Emigrants August 2, 1923 - January 20, 1931; Acting Medical Officer of Health November 4, 1929. JP (official) November 3, 1927.

[1] I wasn't mistaken, veterinary.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, October 14, 1921, Appt. #424; November 23, 1923, Appt. #509; November 4, 1927, Appt. #636; November 1, 1929, Appt. #559; January 23, 1931, Appt. #43. / The London Gazette, January 5, 1915. / Supplement to the London Gazette, January 12, 1915.

McKenny, Charles William (1912)

updated June 30, 2013

b. February 21, 1885. BS, MD, Trinity College, Ireland. Resident surgeon, Meath Hospital, Dublin 1911. Hong Kong 1912. Hong Kong Government, Medical Officer, Victoria Gaol 1912; Acting Superintendent, Victoria Hospital (vice John Taylor Connell Johnson) December 14, 1918 - January 8, 1919; Acting Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital; Visiting Medical Officer, Tung Wah Hospital; Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer (vice J.T.C. Johnson) February 8, 1919, and July 7, 1923. Supernumerary Surgeon-Lieutenant, HKVDC August 5, 1914. JP (official) October 5, 1917 - 1927. HKU, Lecturer in Clinical Medicine 1913-27, Anesthetics 1919-20, Anesthetist to the Surgical Clinic 1920-25, Clinical Obstetrics 1923-25, Radiology and Radio-Therapeutics 1927; tutor in the Out-Patients Department 1921-22; Senate 1918-20.

s/o James and Kate McKenny [1].

[1] James McKenny, veterinary surgeon; address: #116 Stephens Green Street, Clonliffe, Dublin 1885.

Selected bibliography: Dafydd Emrys Evans (1987) Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. / The Hong Kong Government Gazette, August 7, 1914, Appt. #299; October 5, 1917, Appt. #446; February 21, 1919, Appt. #81; July 13, 1923, Appt. #314; June 10, 1927, Notice #349. / Irish Genealogy › Search Church Records › Area – Dublin [internet]. / Medical and Sanitary Reports for the Year  1918, Hong Kong Government. / The National Archives of Ireland › 1911 census [internet]. / Proceedings of Meeting, Hong Kong Legislative Council, January 30, 1919. / Ure, Gavin, Governors, Politics and the Colonial Office: Public Policy in Hong Kong, 1918-58, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012.

Koch, Wilfred Vincent Miller (1903)

updated on April 8, 2014.

b. October 29, 1862 Jaffna, Ceylon - d. August 28, 1939. St. Thomas' College, Ceylon. MB, CM 1884, MD 1895, (Edin.). Medical officer, various hospitals in London and Sheffield 1884-88. Colonial Medical Services 1889, Trinidad 1889-1903, Army Major in command of the Trinidad Artillery. Hong Kong 1903.

HONG KONG 1903. Government doctor, Medical Officer 1903-17; Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital 1914-17. Registered to practice November 2, 1917. Private practitioner 1917. Sanitary Board 1920-25. Legislative Council 1926. Licensing Board November 14, 1927, three years term. Justice of the Peace. Vice President, HKBMA 1907-08. District surgeon, St. John Ambulance Overseas Brigade. Lecturer in Surgery, HKCMC 1905-12. Lecturer in Surgery, HKU 1912-17^[1]. University Senate, HKU 1912. Club: Hong Kong. Address: Hotel Mansions 1917.

s/o Edwin Lawson Koch, MD^[2]
m/1 Ida Nathan; m/2 Ellen Elliott Drake Briscoe; m/3 Elsie M. Thompson.

Publications: A research into the etiology of beri-beri, together with a report on an outbreak in the Po-Leung-Ku, co-author William Hunter, 1906.

[Koch was referred to as a professor in several sources without specifying the name(s) of university and faculty.]

[1] HKCMC teachers 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.

[2] Koch Sr. (b.1838, Jaffna, Ceylon – d. 1877, Jaffna, Ceylon) was a descendent of Godfried Koch of Brandenburg, Prussia who went to India in the ship "Rosenberg" in 1755 and later moved to Jaffna. Koch Sr. was a much loved and respected doctor in Ceylon. He was also the second principal of the Colombo Medical School. When he suddenly died at the age of 39, the grateful public of Ceylon offered subscriptions to pay for W.V.M. Koch’s medical education in Britain. [What I fail to find is any information that mentions Koch, the son, had worked in Ceylon to repay the society that he owed his medical career.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, November 2, 1917, #488; February 23, 1923, #86; November 10, 1927, #657.

Hunter, Louise Olivia (1938)

updated November 11, 2013.

HONG KONG nlt.1938. JP June 16, 1938

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 17, 1938, #468.

Chau Sik-nin 周錫年 (1924-1955)

Chau Sik-nin escorting Princes Alexandra

updated September 6, 2013

Otolaryngologist-Turned-Banker.

b. April 13, 1903, Hong Kong – d. November 30, 1985, Hong Kong. St. Stephen College, Hong Kong 1918. MBBS (HK) 1923; DLO 1925; DOMS 1926. Registered to practice Hong Kong January 30, 1924 through EOP. Private practitioner, 1927-30, 37-EOP, address: 1/F, China Building 1941; first Chinese Otolaryngologist to practice in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Government, Ophthalmologist, Government Civil Hospital 1930-36. Part-time Lecturer in Ophthalmology, HKU 1930-35. Medical Board, 1936-EOP; Pres. 1936-37. Sanitary Board 1936-EOP. Chm., Po Leung Kuk 1941-44. JP (unoff.) May 19, 1939 - 1985. Residence: #1 Hing Hon Road 1924. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948. HKU Interim Committee 1946-47. Legislative Council, member 1947-62; Senior Member 1953-59. Executive Council, member 1948-62; Senior Member 1959-62. Inaugural Chairman, Hong Kong Tuberculosis Association 1948-63. Founder, Hong Kong Chinese Bank 香港華人銀行 1955 [1]. Inaugural Chairman, Federation of Hong Kong Industries 1960-66. Inaugural Chairman, Hong Kong Trade Development Council 1966-70. Member, General Committee, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce 1966-74. Honorary Advisor, Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. Permanent Advisor of Tung Wah Hospitals. Director, more than 30 companies in Hong Kong and other areas in the Asia Pacific. Honor: Coronation Medal 1937; Defense Medal 1945; CBE 1950; Kt 1960; Hon LLD, HKU 1961; Silver Jubilee Medal 1977; The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon 瑞寶中綬章 (Japan) 1969. Hon. escort of Princess Alexandra, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, during her Hong Kong visit 1961.

Christian. fa/o flamboyant barrister and socialite Chau Kai-pong 周啟邦, b.1934-d.2010. First cousin of Chau Tsun-Nin 周埈年; Senior Member, Legislative and Executive Councils.

[1] The Hong Kong Chinese Bank was acquired by CITIC Ka Wah Bank in 2002 and ceased to exist thenceforth.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, February 1, 1924, Notice #57; May 9, 1941, Notice #558..