Hassan el ARCULLI (aka Doc) [1885-1945]

Notes from eurasian_david:

‘Doc Arculli’ = Hassan el Arculli (Hong Kong May 1885-Hong Kong 17th August 1945) was a doctor and uncle to Tubby el Arculli. His parents were Abdullah Fakira - later styled with surname ‘Arculli’ from May 1902 (Hong Kong 18th October 1857-Hong Kong 3rd September 1920) and Amina Ismail (Shanghai 1862-Hong Kong 4th February 1932)

Hassan was educated at Queens College, then at Aberdeen Street in the city of Victoria, earning academic distinctions during his tenure there. He studied medicine at Liverpool University with his cousin Jaffir Rumjahn (Hong Kong 8th Septmeber 1887-Whiston, Lancashire, UK 1st February 1961), also from Hong Kong, and was recorded living together as boarders in Anfield, Liverpool in the 1911 British Census.

Hassan qualified as a doctor on the 6th July 1912. He was a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (London), Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (England) (1913) and a diplomate in Public Health (Liverpool) and Tropical Medicine (Liverpool). Jaffir stayed on and practiced medicine in Liverpool and got married in England where he lived and died. Hassan practised as a General Practitioner in Liverpool for several years (he was the one family member who was not able to attend his father’s funeral in Hong Kong on 3rd September 1920 as he was in the UK) but eventually came back to live and work in Hong Kong. I have seen him regularly listed in the local newspapers as an attendee to a number of funerals in Happy Valley, Hong Kong when members of the local Indian Muslim community died from the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s.

There is a photo of him here at the bottom of the web page:

http://www.abdullahquilliam.org/miscellaneous-gallery/