Charles St George Cleverly
Charles St. George Cleverley or Cleverly (Chinese: 基化厘 or 急庇利; 8 July 1819 – 14 August 1897) was the second Surveyor General in Hong Kong. He worked under the Colonial Secretary and was responsible for public infrastructure, town planning and land auction.
Career
[edit]Cleverly is famous for the construction of Government House. The construction began in October 1851 and finished in October 1855.[1]
His name was often registered in the Hong Kong Government Gazette in relation to the public auction of crown land and buildings.
Family
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Cleverly was born in Bloomsbury, London, one of five sons of the physician Samuel Cleverley, doctor to the Duke of Kent and Duke of Cambridge. His grandfather William Cleverley owned a shipyard beside the River Thames in London. He built many large ships for the British East India Company.[2]
He married Ah Gow Li (died 1847), with whom he had a daughter, Augusta Cleverly (1846–1930). He married secondly Mary Pope (1818–1875), with whom he had a son, Charles Frederick Moore Cleverly (1852–1921), who was the father of Sir Osmund Somers Cleverly, the Principal Private Secretary of Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin, and Neville Chamberlain.[3]
He died at his home in Great Malvern, Worcester.[4]
Memory
[edit]Cleverly Street in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, is named after him.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Government House – History". Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 16 December 2007.
- ^ "The Cleverly Family". Archived from the original on 18 May 2005.
- ^ "Cleverly, Sir Osmund Somers". Who Was Who. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u54138. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995
- ^ Yanne, Andrew; Heller, Gillis (2009). Signs of a Colonial Era. Hong Kong University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-962-209-944-9.
- ^ 道路名稱(五)英官員命名道路 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 16 December 2007.