b.7/9/1820, Rochester, England – d.10/14/1856, Bangkok, from dysentery. Second mate, merchantman. Hong Kong (1841-1856). Siam (1956, First British Consul to Siam).
HONG KONG
| 1841 | arrived in Hong Kong, gave up seafaring life |
| 1841 - 1842 | mercantile assistant of Fergusson Leighton & Co. (firm wound up in 1842) |
| 12/31/1842 | Clerk of the Chief Magistrate |
| 5/13/1843 | Assistant to the Chief Magistrate |
| 6/26/1843 | Assistant Magistrate (£500 a year in salary) |
| 6/30/1843 | Justices of the Peace (one of the the first 44 JPs in HK). |
| 1844 | Recording Officer of the Criminal and Admiralty Court (vice Alexander Scott) |
| 4/9/1845 | Coroner (vice Edward Farncomb, resigned). |
| 7/16/1845 | Chief Magistrate (vice William Caine, appointed Colonial Secretary) |
| 1845 - 3/1/1847 | Sheriff, Provost Marshal, Marshal of the Admiralty Court |
| 1847 | Corresponding Secretary of the Morrison Education Society |
| 3/8/1853 - 4/16/1856 | Member of the Legislative Council |
| 3//1854 - 7/4/1854 | Acting Colonial Secretary |
| 5/1/1854 | Emigration Officer |
| 11//1854 | Editor of Chinese Serial 遐爾貫珍 (vice Walter Henry Medhurst Jr.) |
| 5/10/1856 | Left Hong Kong for Bangkok (appointed British Consul in Siam) |
m. Eliza M. Medhurst (b.1828); d/o English Congregationalist missionary Walter Henry Medhurst 麥都思 (b.1796-d.1857) and Elizabeth (Betty) Braune Martin (b.1794-d.1874); arrived in Hong Kong (1841).
F/o Willie Hillier (b.1848), Walter Hillier (b.8/10/1849, Hong Kong; Consular Service, 1868-96), Harry Hillier (b.1851; Customs Commissioner, 1895-1911; Kowloon Commissioner 1895-1899), Guy Hillier (Peking Agent of HSBC, 1891-1924), Eleanor Maudie, Hugh (ob.inf.), Charles (ob.inf.).
- Honor: naming of Hillier Street 禧利街
- Hillier was a close friend of William Caine, the Chief Magistrate.
- Eliza Hillier wrote an article about King Mongkut and his brother King Pinklao of Siam, which was published in the April 24, 1858 edition of Household Words, a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens. The article was titled "A Pair of Siamese Kings" (pp.447-451). [In 1862 King Moongkut wanted an English tutor for his children and upon the recommendation of Tan Kim Ching 陳金鐘, a merchant from the Straits Settlements, and his British friend William Adamson, engaged Anglo-indian widow Anna Leonowens to fill the post. Leonowens later described her experience in the royal court of Siam in her memoirs, which inspired Margaret Landon in writing her 1944 novel "Anna and the King of Siam".]
Selected bibliography: Endacott, G.B., A Biographical Sketch-book of Early Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005, pp.84-88. Friend of China, January 12, 1843; May 18, 1843. Gwulo: Old Hong Kong [omline]. Hong Kong Government Gazette May 6, 1854; May 27, 1854. 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.79, 82.
temp.notes:1. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Po5FBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=c+b+hillier+hong+kong&source=bl&ots=u1XF9y0zb_&sig=ylryzZVMfpcqxTAmWtY32QI6e4o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2ydO3v-PPAhUH3mMKHfjHDqIQ6AEINzAI#v=onepage&q=c%20b%20hillier%20hong%20kong&f=false
2. http://gwulo.com/node/15889
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