Simson, J.J. (1940)

updated September 27, 2013.

RAMC, Colonel. Hong Kong nlt.1940. Medical Board 1940.

Tseung, Fat-im 蔣法賢 (1925-1948+)

updated August 18, 2013

MBBS (HK) 1925. Registered to practice Hong Kong December 31, 1925. Private practitioner 1925-EOP, address: 4/F, China Building 1941. HKCMA, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer 1927, 1929; Vice President 1934. Medical Board 1930-36. Nutrition Advisory Council [n.d.]. Residence: #25 Hill Road 1925. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, status of the practice unknown. Resumed practice after the war nlt.1948 at the prewar address.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, December 31, 1925, Notice #755; May 9, 1941, Notice #558. 《香港年鑑》香港：華僑日報 (Hong Kong Year Book)。

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.

Sanders, James Herbert (1907-1932)

Reference letter written by J. H. Sanders for Nurse Ellen Johnson, Matilda Hospital. 1920 / source: by kind permission of Peter Maleczek, flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/backmanmal/8319400200/in/photostream/

updated August 25, 2013

Obstetrician / Gynecologist.

More commonly known as J. Herbert Sanders. d. May 16, 1956, Devon. MRCS (Eng.) February 10, 1900; LRCP (Lond.); MD (Brussels) February 10, 1900. Resident Medical Officer, London Hospital. Adviser, London Throat Hospital. Hong Kong 1906. Registered to practice Hong Kong July 23, 1907 through 1932. Medical Superintendent, Matilda Hospital 1907 [1]. Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, HKBMA 1907-08. The Great War, Resident Medical Officer, London Hospital; Senior Medical Officer, Norwich Military Hospital; Senior Medical Officer, Norfolk Military Hospital. Hong Kong after the Great War, resumed position at Matilda Hospital. Medical Board, acting member (vice Robert Maclean Gibson) May 27, 1918; member 1919. Publications: Boracic Acid Poisoning, The British Medical Journal, March 16, 1912, p.605; Congenital Absence of One Ovary and the Corresponding Fallopian Tube, The British Medical Journal, June 23, 1928, p.1065. Residence: #70 The Peak 1907.

[Sanders was sued by a former patient for malpractice in 1923. The exact allegations made by the complainant, Thorward Anderson, formerly a foreman with Hong Kong Wharf and Godown Company were “unskillful or negligent treatment” to his hand. Anderson suffered multiple injuries after falling 12 feet to the ground while working in the wharf on December 13, 1921. He went to the Kowloon Hospital for first aids and the doctor in charge, James Thornton Smalley, referred him to Sanders for follow up treatments. Anderson went to the Matilda Hospital on the following day to see Sanders who then became his attending surgeon. Anderson alleged that Sanders had treated his other injuries caused by the fall but failed to treat his right hand, which he put out in an attempt to break the fall, as a result causing bone fractures. The trial, presided over by Chief Justice William Rees-Davies, began on December 17, 1923. On the third day of the trial, the jury plainly told the court that there was no ground to continue further as the complainant clearly had not proved his case. Ree-Davies gave a verdict for the defendant and did so with an order for the complainant to pay costs.]

[1]. Sanders was the first medical superintendent of the Matilda Hospital. He probably ran the hospital entirely on his own while treating patients at the same time until the 1923 joining of Dr. Harry Lechmere Clift.

Selected bibliography: The China Mail, December 17, 1923, p.1, 4, Dr. Sanders Sued. Hong Kong Daily Pres, December 19, 1923, p.5, Allegations against a Doctor. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, July 26, 1907, Notice #490; May 5, 1933, Notice #317.

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].

Manson, Patrick (1850s-1893)

updated August 27, 2013.

CM October 14, 1865, MD August 8, 1866 (Aber.). Registered to practice Hong Kong May 3, 1884 through 1893. Private practitioner, nlt.1884-1893, address: Bank Building 1889. Medical Board 1886. Sanitary Board 1887-88. Residence, address 1: #1 Albany, Victoria 1884; address 2: Rocklands, Robinson Road 1887.

[Manson was one of the first nine doctors who registered as medical practitioners in Hong Kong immediately following the enactment of the "Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884" that required all doctors to be licensed before they could treat patients for monetary reward. The nine were: William Stanley Adams, Philip Bernard Chenery Ayres, Johann Gerhard Heinrich Gerlach, Antonio Simplieio Gomes, William M. Hartigan, John H. Lockhead, Patrick Manson, James Stockwell, and Richard Young.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 3, 1884; August 14, 1886, Notice #304; May 7, 1887;  January 28, 1888, Notice #31May 4, 1889, Notice #205; May 5, 1894, Notice #169.

Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Gabbett (1923-1929)

updated on June 28, 2013

b.1878, Co. Kerry, Ireland - d.December 21, 1954, Penharbour. Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Eire. LRCP&SI. RAMC, Surgeon 1900; WWI 1914-1918; Mons retreat 1914; Major [n.d.]; Lieutenant-Colonel January 17, 1916; Hong Kong 1923. Hong Kong Government, temporary Medical Officer in Charge, Victoria Hospital July 7, 1923; left Hong Kong for India 1929, Assistant Director of Medical Services 1929-32; England aft.1932, Colonel, Deputy Director, Medical Services at the Horse Guards, for the Eastern Command 1933-37; retired from Army 1937, final rank: Major-General. Sanitary Board April 13, 1923, 3-year term. Medical Board May 1, 1923. Honor: CB 1936; DSO 1917, KHS. Publications: A Hospital in Tientsin, North China, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol. #46, 1926.

m. Emily Gosselin, d.March 25, 1964, Penharbour, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, April 1, 1933, The Services; January 4, 1936, Medical New Year Honors; January 8, 1955, Medical News, Deaths. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 13, 1923, Appt. #158; May 11, 1923, Appt. #219. Hong Kong Government, Medical Report for the Year 1923. Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Headstones at Christ Church, Delagany [internet]. Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives, Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defense Personnel, 1900-75. Officers from Co. Kerry Ireland who Served in WWI: List by John MacGillycuddy, Annascaul 25 Jul 1917. Supplement to the Edinburgh Gazette, January 17, 1916. Supplement to the London Gazette, November 22, 1918, January 1, 1936. Winter Catarrhs and Bronchitis, January 13, 1917, p.58.

Earle, Herbert Gastineau 安爾 (1915-1928)

Herbert Gastineau Earle by Ernest Walter Histed, 1900s. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, UK. [1]

updated on August 8, 2014

"Disease Is A General Biological Problem And That All Medical Research Should Have A Fundamental Philosophical Background If It Is To Be Intelligently Pursued."

b. August 10, 1882, London - d. June 5, 1946. BA 1905, MA, MB September 4, 1913 (Cantab.); MB (Lond.) [questionable]; FRSM; FRSTMH. Demonstrator in Physiology 1904-15; Lecturer in Biology 1909-1915, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London. Temporary Assistant Physician, Royal Waterloo Hospital, London 1914-15. Medical Missionary [questionable]. Hong Kong 1915-28. Shanghai 1928. General Adviser, Lester Trust 1926-46. Director, Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research and Preventive Medicine 1928-[n.d.], 1941-43. Director, Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences 中國生理學會 1926-34. Co-founded the Chinese Journal of Physiology 中國生理學雜誌 [2] January 1927. England [n.d.]. Shanghai 1941 (spring). Second Sino-Japanese War, interned, Shanghai tbc.1943-45, Lunghua (Lunghwa) Civil Assembly Center [3]. Continued to work at Henry Lester Institute [position unknown] 1945-46. Died while returning to the UK 1946. Honor: Hon. LLD (HKU) 1936.

HONG KONG 1915-28. HKU, Professor of Physiology and Biology (second chair) 1915-18 (vice Greer Edmund Malcolmson); founding chair Professor of Physiology (founding chair) 1918; Dean, Faculty of Medicine 1916-20, 1923, 1925. Acting Honorary Visiting Physician to the Government Civil Hospital January 31, 1916 (vice George Ernest Aubrey, absence on leave). Registered to practice Hong Kong June 20, 1917. Acting Member of the Medical Board December 19, 1918 (vice Kenelm Hutchson Digby, absence on leave), May 11, 1923. Left Hong Kong 1928.

m. Audrey Mary Harrison. Had issues: 1. Barbara Mary Earle (b.January 1913); 2. John Esmond Gastineau Earle (b. August 1914. Epsom College; MB (Cantab.) 1939; MRCS; LRCP. RAMC, Lieutenant January 16, 1941; Captain; retired January 5, 1949, final rank Lieutenant Colonel. SBStJ 1959. m. Mary York Moore 1949.); 3. Monica Audrey Beck (b. May 1917; m. Ezra Paul Beck); 4. Catherine Rosemary Earle (b. 1924, Hong Kong - d.1997, Surrey. m.[s.n.] Pepper).

Publications: Basal Metabolism with Special Reference to Chinese Students (presented at the 1923 China Medical Missionary Association (CMMA) Conference. An Imperial Policy in Education, with Special Reference to the University of Hong Kong (1926). Report on the Lester Trust, Shanghai (1927). Basal Metabolism of Chinese and Westerners (Chinese Journal of Physiology, 1928, Vol. 1, Issue 59, p.92).

[Earle suggested a new medical education curriculum for HKU in 1918 modeled after the British system. The reform he proposed had included a stronger association between the medical school and the hospital that would provide necessary beds for offering students placement opportunities.]

cv of Earle, 1930. Credit: europeana, think culture.

[This was a handwritten cv made by Earle for submission to the Gurlt und Hirsch's Biographisches Lexikon der Aerzte (The Biographical Dictionary of Physicians) for the period from 1880-1930. The title of the cv form said "Biographical Dictionary of the Excellent Doctors. The original cv was kept at the Uppsala University in Sweden.]

[1] The photo was donated to the National Portrait Gallery by Catherine Rosemary Earle.
[2] Other co-founders were Robert Kho-seng Lim 林可勝, Wu Xianhe 吳憲和, and Bernard Emms Read 伊博思, all professors of the Peking Union Medical College 北平協和醫學院.
[3] The Lunghua Civil Assembly Center was where the author of The Empire of the Sun, James Graham. Ballard, was interned (1943-45). He was 13 years old when he was sent with his family to the CAC in Shanghai.

Selected bibliography: 85 Years of Caduceus: 1922-2007, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University. Biograghic Dictionary of Physicians by Hirsch-Gurlt for the period from 1880 to 1930. The British Medical Journal, June 24, 1939, p.1308; June 29, 1946, p.1001, Obituary, H.G. Earle, LL.D., M.B. Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences [internet]. The China Medical Journal, February 1923, Vol. #37, No. #2. Evans, Dafydd Emrys (Ed.) Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. Epsom College Register 1923, p.336. GenealogyBuff.com › Town of Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire › Index of Death (2004) [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 28, 1916, #33; June 29, 1917, #297; February 14, 1919, #70. Mundia [internet]. obit.phaneuf.net [internet]. Nature, June 15, 1946, Vol. #157, p.796. Ronca, Anna (pers. comm., January 10 and 11, 2014)[Anna is the daughter of Barbara Mary Earle]. Supplement to the London Gazette, February 18, 1941, p.964; September 9, 1949, p.4335. Tsang, Chiu-long, Carol, Out of the Dark: Women's Medicine and Women's Diseases in Colonial Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The HKU Scholars Hub [internet]. jgballard.com [internet].

Digby, Kenelm Hutchison (1913-EOP)

Kenelm Hutchison Digby

updated on November 17, 2013

b. August 4, 1884, London - d. February 23, 1953, London. MBBS (Lond.) February 9, 1907; trained at Guy’s Hospital, London 1907; FRCS 1910. Surgical Registrar, Guy’s Hospital 1909-11. Principal Medical Officer, Great Central Railway, England 1912. Hong Kong nlt.1913. Registered to practice Hong Kong September 4, 1914 through EOP. Professor of Anatomy 1913-23; Surgery 1923-45; Ho Tung Professor of Surgery 1914-45 HKU. Medical Board 1923-25. Hong Kong Government, Honorary Consultant in Surgery 1915-48; Surgeon, Queen Mary Hospital 1930-48. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned 1941-45 Stanley Camp; conducted a surgical clinic for fellow internees; ran a camp hospital including the performance of surgical procedures. Residence: Windy Lodge, #551 The Peak 1941. Left Hong Kong for UK 1949. Research work, Royal College of Surgeons of England. President, HKBMA 1956. Council, BMA 1952-53. Publications: Immunity in Health: the Functions of the Tonsils and the Appendix, 1919. Honor: King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935; OBE 1939; Professor Emeritus, HKU 1945; K. H. Digby Memorial Fund, HKU 1954.

m. Selina D. Law 1913.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 4, 1914, #345; May 6, 1935, #362; May 9, 1941, #558.

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..

Burniston, Hugh Somerville (1922-1925)

updated June 28, 2013

b. October 16, 1870 - d. May 1, 1962, Emsworth, Hants. MBBS, Durham Univ. 1892. RN, Surgeon, HMS Duke of Wellington 1900-02; Staff Surgeon, HMS Bacchante (flagship of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron in Mediterranean) 1902-05; Staff Surgeon, HMS Vernon (torpedo school ship) 1905; Staff Surgeon, Cumberland (training ship for cadets) 1908; Fleet Surgeon. May 17, 1910; Boxer Rebellion 1910; Fleet Surgeon, HMS Warrior 1913; Surgeon Commander nlt.1918; Fleet Medical Officer, Atlantic Fleet 1919-22; Hong Kong 1922, Surgeon Captain In-Charge, Royal Naval Hospital; retired October 16, 1925, Surgeon Rear-Admiral. Medical Board May 1, 1923. Honor: CMG December 31, 1918.

Selected bibliography: Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk › Royal Navy › Navy List 1908 Ship A to C [internet]. British Medical Journal, May 19, 1962, Reviews, Deaths. Durham University Calendar, with Almanack 1916-17, Durham: Thomas Caldcleugh & Co., 1916. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 11, 1923, Appt. #218. The London Gazette, April 19, 1904, May 20, 1910, October 20, 1925. University of London › King's College London › Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives › Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defense Personnel, 1900-75 [internet].

Black, George Duncan Ralph (1917-d.1941, HK)

updated November 17, 2013

d. December 25, 1941, Hong Kong. MB, CM, MD (Tor.). June 9, 1905. Registered to practice Hong Kong April 27, 1917 through EOP. Private practitioner 1917-EOP, founder, Drs. Black, Balean, Skinn & Talbot, address 1: Alexandra Building 1917; address 2: Union Building 1922-41. BMA 1908. Lecturer in Practical Anatomy, HKCMC 1909-12. President, HKBMA 1934-36. Medical Board 1923-25. Dental Board 1918-EOP. Chieftain, Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society 1925-26, 1939-40. RAMC, Major 1941. HKVDC, Surgeon Lieutenant January 30, 1912; Principal Medical Officer; Lieutenant-Colonel. Honors: OBE, Military Division 1935; King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935; VD.

m. Anne Lilian Black; Nursing Detachment, HKVDC, nurse ND14. fa/o Alison Black; Nursing Detachment, HKVDC, nurse ND6.

[Black was in charge of a temporary military hospital established at the beginning of the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941 inside St. Stephen’s College in Stanley. He was killed by Japanese troop storming the hospital in the early morning of Christmas Day 1941.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, February 9, 1912, #39; April 27, 1917, #184; March 16, 1923, #113; May 18, 1923, #235; May 6, 1935, #362; May 9, 1941, #558.

Aubrey, George Ernest (1907-1923)

updated August 24, 2013

MRCS (Eng.). LRCP (Lond.); MBBS December 16, 1904, MD (Lond.). Registered to practice Hong Kong March 14, 1907. Private practitioner 1907, name partner, Drs. Jordan, Forsyth, Grove & Aubrey, address: Alexandra Building 1921. Hong Kong Government, Honorary Visiting Physician, Government Civil Hospital 1914-23, resigned. Dental Board, one of the five initial members 1914 [1]. Private hospital, Consultant surgeon, Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals. Acting Member, Medical Board (vice Murray Stewart) January 24, 1913. Lecturer in Clinical Medicine, HKU 1914-20. Acting Member, Midwives Board (vice Robert Maclean Gibson) October 18, 1919. Publication: Venereal Diseases among the Natives of Hong Kong, The Caduceus, 1922, Vol. #1 H. Macfarlane, co-author). Residence: Peak Hotel 1907.

m. Dora Constance August 1, 1912.

[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: Davidson, Roger (Ed.), Hall, Lesley A. (Ed.), Sex, Sin and Suffering: Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870, London: Routledge, 2001. 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, March 15, 1907, Notice #175; January 24, 1913, Appt. #17; July 10, 1914, Appt. #256; July 17, 1914, Appt. #263; October 24, 1919, Appt. #498.