Pre-war student record of Andrew Hazeland. Pictures © University Archives, The University of Hong Kong
Colonial Hong Kong – Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Gaol by Christopher Munn and May Holdsworth, published by the Hong Kong University Press, a familiar surname ‘Hazeland’ popped up. It reads: ‘The longest-serving of the early 20th century magistrates was also the first Magistrate to have been born in Hong Kong. Francis Arthur Hazeland became Second Police Magistrate in 1901. He was promoted to First Police Mag- istrate in 1909, serving until his retirement in 1916’.5
And just like that – the connection. I realised that there would not be many Hazelands in the early 1900s in Hong Kong. This intriguing discovery drove me to dig out the photoless student record in our University Archives again.
The Hazelands were prominent figures in Hong Kong – Francis Arthur Hazeland, born in June 1861, was not only a Police Magis- trate but was also Acting Chief Justice for 13 days in October in October 19106
and Acting
Attorney General from 28 October 1909 to 14 April 1910 at the Legislative Council of colonial Hong Kong.7
His brother, Ernest Manning
Hazeland, born in Hong Kong in 1870 and educated at Diocesan Boys’ School, seventh son in the Hazeland family and a keen sailor,8 who died on 28 November 1944 in the Civilian Internment Camp at Stanley in Hong Kong during Japanese Occupation,9
was a civil
engineer and an authorised architect working in the Public Work Department of the Hong Kong Government from 1888 to 1900. Ernest had his own practice between 1914 and 1923, and then partnered with an Italian Architect Ugo Gonella to form Hazeland & Gonella from 1924 to 1941.10
Their father, Francis Innes
Hazeland, who was admitted to practise law in Hong Kong in 1858, was Crown Solicitor and Queen’s Proctor at the Vice-Admiralty Court of Hong Kong.11
What about our alumnus Andrew John Manning Hazeland? He was born in Hong Kong in 1908, son of the architect Ernest Manning Hazeland, and nephew of the Police Magistrate Francis Arthur Hazeland. On 1 February 1917, Andrew’s name appeared in a ‘Prize Distribution’ in connection with the French Convent School in the South China Morning Post, as receiving first prize in reading and geography in class VIII.12
On 28
March 1919, he again appeared on anoth- er prize distribution at the Victoria British School in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, in class VI.13
On 29 January 1920, Andrew received
the first prize again in geography in class V;14 I believe him to be a student of the Victoria British School when he was 12 or earlier. Andrew later continued his studies in China: a photo album held by SOAS, University of Lon-
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