Countries  |  China/Hong Kong

Chinese members of Swire who died in WW1 or WW2

Group, China/Hong Kong

James Hudson Taylor

Born Barnsley, Yorkshire. Died Changsha, Hunan, China (340 miles north of Canton), where he was buried. English missionary to China. Founded the China Inland Mission in 1865 which at his death in...

Person, Religion, China/Hong Kong

C. E. Leighton Thomson

Vicar of Chelsea Old Church 1950-92. From 1986 was a canon of St Paul's. Andrew Behan has researched this man: The Reverend Prebendary Clarke Edward Leighton Thomson was born on 25 April 1919 in ...

Person, Religion, Canada, China/Hong Kong, Egypt

B. Tran Huynh

Person, Poetry, China/Hong Kong

King George Tupou V

Former king of Tonga. His full name was Siaosi Tāufaʻāhau Manumataongo Tukuʻaho Tupou V. Educated in New Zealand, Britain and Switzerland and trained at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He su...

Person, Royalty, China/Hong Kong, New Zealand, Switzerland

Christopher John Turner CBE

British colonial administrator and diplomat. Born Kingston upon Thames. Joined the Colonial Service in Tanganyika as a District Officer in 1958 and become the youngest District Commissioner in Afr...

Group, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, China/Hong Kong

Arthur Waley

Poet, translator and orientalist. He never actually visited China nor Japan.

Person, Poetry, China/Hong Kong, Japan

Walter Clopton Wingfield

Born at Rhysnant Hall, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Served in the 1st Dragoon Guards, and saw action in China and India. In the late 1860s he began experimenting with an outdoor version of real tennis. ...

Person, Armed Forces, Food & Drink, Sport / Games, China/Hong Kong, India, Wales

Field-Marshal, 1st Viscount Wolseley, Garnet Joseph

Field Marshal.  Born Dublin.  Served in the Indian Rebellion and the Crimean War. Led the attempt to relieve Khartoum. 1895 - 1900 Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. The very model of the 'Mod...

Person, Armed Forces, Africa, Burma, Canada, China/Hong Kong, Crimea, France, India, Ireland

Tim Yau, MBE

President of the 12th Executive Committee of London Chinatown Chinese Association. His name appears twice on the lion monument and it may be Uau or Yau.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration, Tourism / Traditions, China/Hong Kong