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Name change from Macomer to Clovelly
HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB - May 2009
History
Fortune Hunter
of the China Coast
In the world of George Hutton Potts the only game bigger than rugby was risk. If there was one to be taken, he never blinked.
When he landed in Hong Kong in 1885 he was a 21-year-old toughened on the pitch at Harrow playing that school’s unique football code. He put on his boots for the last rugby match staged three days before the Hong Kong Football Club was formed in February 1886, then again for the first Club match a few days later. An HKFC founding member, G.H. Potts was elected Club’s first Rugby Captain, for four seasons starting in 1894-95. But the rugger field was not a dangerous enough place for a man like him...
... He had a house called ‘Clovelly’ on May Road and became Chairman of the Stock Exchange. In May 1933 he laid the foundation stone of the new
exchange building in Ice House Street.
(The online version is no longer availabe on the HKFC.com website.)