Court official. (b.1800, Raeburn Dumfriesshire, Scotland - d.1843, Hong Kong).
HONG KONG. Court official.
Recording Officer, Criminal and Admiralty Court[1] (1843). One of the first 44 Justices of the Peace ever appointed in Hong Kong (6/30/1843). Died in Hong Kong (8/24/1843); his estate was administered by Gordon F. Davidson on behalf of the Government.
Recording Officer, Criminal and Admiralty Court[1] (1843). One of the first 44 Justices of the Peace ever appointed in Hong Kong (6/30/1843). Died in Hong Kong (8/24/1843); his estate was administered by Gordon F. Davidson on behalf of the Government.
[1] The Criminal and Admiralty Court was moved from Canton to Hong Kong in June 1843.
Selected bibliography: Friend of China, August 31, 1843. 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, p.19.
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