Henry Keswick was a British Conservative politician and businessman and member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong. Born into the Keswick business dynasty in 1870 in Shanghai, Henry was the first born son of William Keswick by his first wife, Amelie Sophie Dubeux (d. 1883). He was educated at Eton College and in 1892 graduated with a B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge, at which college he later took his M.A. degree. <Read more ...>
Sir Henry Edward Pollock, QC, JP (普樂) was an English barrister who became a prominent politician in Hong Kong. From 1917 to 1941 he was the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and from 1926 to 1941 was the Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council.
He was Commodore of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club from 1905 to 1906 and again from 1908 to 1909.
Sir George Thomas Henry Boyes had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, during which he was Commodore and Naval Officer-in-Charge at Hongkong. He served as Commodore of the Royal Hong Kong Yact Club from 1895 to 1896. <Read more ...>
Admiral Edmund John Church R.N. was the Commodore-in-Charge, Hongkong in 1888. He was Commodore of the Hongkong Corinthian Sailing Club from 1891 to 1892. Further details are at this link:
"A Voyage to War: An Englishmans's Account of Hong Kong 1936-41" by Hugh Dulley
A brief description of the book:-
Hugh Dulley’s father (Peter Dulley) and mother (Therese Sander) met in Hong Kong on New Year’s Eve 1935. Four years later at the outbreak of war, Peter, a weekend sailor, was called up in the Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He eventually graduated to command an ocean-going tug of 500 tons from Hong Kong to Aden. En route he called at islands still enjoying pre-war peacetime and navigated across the Indian Ocean using a sextant. <Read more ...>
