Barrister. Admitted to the Middle Temple; called to the bar (1/11/1839).
HONG KONG. Government Lawyer.
Arrived to Hong Kong from Bombay (6//1843). Legal Advisor to the Hong Kong Government (appointed 8/21/1843; this was a first of its kind appointment in Hong Kong). Clerk of the Legislative Council (appointed 8/21/1843; oaths was taken the following year on 1/11/1844). Burgass was a friend of the first colonial governor, Henry Pottinger.
Arrived to Hong Kong from Bombay (6//1843). Legal Advisor to the Hong Kong Government (appointed 8/21/1843; this was a first of its kind appointment in Hong Kong). Clerk of the Legislative Council (appointed 8/21/1843; oaths was taken the following year on 1/11/1844). Burgass was a friend of the first colonial governor, Henry Pottinger.
- Burgass was presented by the first colonial governor Henry Pottinger (1843-44) to the Queen at a levee she held on March 12, 1845.
Selected bibliography: Norton-Kyshe, James William, History of the Laws and Courts of Hong Kong, Tracing Consular Jurisdiction in China and Japan and Including Parliamentary Debates, and the Rise, Progress, and Successive Changes in the Various Public Institutions of the Colony from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Hong Kong: Noronha & Co., 1898, Vol. I, pp.24-25, 79.
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