Kennedy-Skipton buys land for a bungalow

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Kennedy Skipton residence

Permalink Submitted by fivestar on Sun, 2013-11-24 06:44.

If kennedy Skipton owned his residence on Mt. cameron, it paints a very different picture to him just living in HK Government supplied accomodation.

It would be interesting to discover when he sold the residence. I would suspect early Post WW 2, with the proceeds being used to fund Helen and the daughters move to and setting up home in the UK.

Michael

Kennedy-Skipton's Salary and Housing

Permalink Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2013-11-24 18:48.

In 1934 Kennedy-Skiptons' salary was £1,100 p.a. (1935 salary was £1,150 p.a. and 1936 £1,200).

In none of these years is there any sum entered in the category 'House or Quarters, and Allowances for Rent, Entertainment, Personal or for any other purpose'. As far as I can make out, this is generally true of those listed as 'Cadets', although not of those listed as 'Colonial Secretary's Department or Legislature' or 'Secretariat for Chinese Affairs'.

According to a convertor I consulted the value of his 1934 salary in the UK in 2012 would have been £66, 100. From what I've read, prices in Hong Kong in the 1930s were lower than in the UK so he probably had little trouble housing himself! John Fraser, the wartime Defence Secretary, another Cadet whose career has some similarities to Kennedy-Skipton's but starting two years earlier, bought Taipo Lookout in 1933, now a Grade 11 Listed Building.

By 1939, the last year I can find a 'Civil Establishment of Hong Kong' in the HKGRO Kennedy-Skipton's salary was £1350.