Douglas Lapraik (7 October 1818, London – 24 March 1869, London) was a British watchmaker, shipbuilder and shipping magnate of Scottish origins, most...
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itself dates back to 1861 when a wealthy Scottish trader named Douglas Lapraik built the Douglas Castle as the place of his residence. University Hall was...
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Steward Lapraik and dissolved in 1987. After arriving in Hong Kong in 1858 to join his uncle, Douglas Lapraik's shipping empire at Douglas Lapraik & Company...
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Keswick (1834–1912), Scotland Merlin Bingham Swire (born 1973), England Douglas Lapraik (1818–1869), England John Johnstone Paterson (1886–1971), Jardine Matheson...
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Hong Kong Tai-pan Douglas Lapraik. The lane is named after Hong Kong Tai-pan Douglas Lapraik whose dockyard and subsequent Douglas Steamship Company wharf...
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Paul's Cathedral) Sir Peter Laurie, politician and Lord Mayor of London Douglas Lapraik, shipowner and co-founder of HSBC and the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels...
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the Japanese forces captured Keelung, Tang Jingsong first fled to Douglas Lapraik & Co. (德忌利士洋行) in Huwei (滬尾, now Tamsui 淡水), then he took the German...
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1866; 158 years ago (1866-03-02) in Hong Kong HKCR No. 0000003 Founder Douglas Lapraik, Charles Henri Maurice Bosman, Emanuel Raphael Belilios, Gustav von...
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India Line" British Railways ships Clan Line Court Line Douglas Lapraik & Company (Hong Kong) Douglas Steamship Company (Hong Kong) Elder Dempster Line Ellerman...
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the company built its first iron steamship, the Douglas, for the Hong Kong shipowner Douglas Lapraik. Like most shipyards of their era, Hall Russell built...
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significance to the compound as Mr. Chan Keng-Yu was the Compradore of Douglas Lapraik and Co., as well as one of the Founding Directors of Chinese Chamber...
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Kong dockyard, once among the largest in Asia. Founded in 1866 by Douglas Lapraik and Thomas Sutherland, the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company (known...
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much of the population left Hong Kong. John Douglas Lapraik sold the family estate at Pok Fu Lam, Douglas Castle, to the French Mission. The building...
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Hong Kong Tai-pan Douglas Lapraik whose dockyard was once located in the area now reclaimed and the site of Exchange Square. Douglas Street has been dubbed...
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Stanley University Hall (University of Hong Kong) 1861 Tudor and Gothic Douglas Lapraik Pok Fu Lam Central Police Station – Barracks block 1864 Colonial Central...
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Lam, (晴天林), singer-songwriter Terence Lam, (林家謙), singer-songwriter Douglas Lapraik, shipping and real estate magnate Andy Lau Tak Wah (劉德華), actor and...
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were jettisoned. In the end, a donation was secured from Scotsman Douglas Lapraik, one of the most successful Tai-pans who founded the Hong Kong and...
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America-Macao trade steamer Douglas Lapraik & Company 408 GRT 1874 Hong Kong typhoon Unknown Sank at the Douglas Lapraik & Company wharf after attempting...
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October 20, 1865; 159 years ago (1865-10-20) at Hong Kong Founder Douglas Lapraik, J. J. dos Remedios, A. E. Vaucher, Arthur Sassoon, R. Solomon, D....
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Kali Kolsson Norman Kreitman Frank Kuppner R D Laing Andrew Lang John Lapraik William Lauder T. S. Law Joseph Lee Charlotte Lennox Tom Leonard Frances...
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built about 1861 by Douglas Lapraik, a Scottish businessman, who named the two-storey building with its four corner towers Douglas Castle. After the French...
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Messrs. Hall, Russell & Co. Aberdeen Fokien Steamship For Messrs. Douglas, Lapraik & Co. 12 January United Kingdom T. & W. Smith North Shields Lady Tyler...
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Hall, Russell & Co. Aberdeen Kwangtang, or Steamship For Messrs. Douglas, Lapraik & Co. 25 October United Kingdom Messrs. William Gray & Co. West Hartlepool...
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United Kingdom Messrs. Hall, Russell & Co. Aberdeen Douglas Steamship For Messrs. Douglas, Lapraik & Co. 27 December United Kingdom Joseph L. Thompson...
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(4256441). Squadron Leader Ian Hodson, (8024786). Squadron Leader Robert Douglas Lapraik (5200618). Squadron Leader Thomas William Rimmer (2619749). Squadron...
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"Launch". Aberdeen Journal. No. 6530. Aberdeen. 5 January 1873. "The S.S. Douglas". Aberdeen Journal. No. 6537. Aberdeen. 23 April 1873. "Pwllheli". North...
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Kingdom Messrs. Thomas Wingate & Co. Whiteinch Undine Steamship For Douglas Lapraik and others. 10 September United Kingdom Read Ipswich Alpha Pilot cutter...
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Messrs. Hall, Russell & Co. Footdee Quang Tung Steamship For Messrs. Douglas, Lapraik & Co. 10 March France Lorient Reine Blanche Alma-class ironclad For...
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decorated layout as the Kilmarnock Edition of Burns's poems and of John Lapraik's poems, with a quote from the poet Ramsay. A list of the subscribers was...
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Church Address to Edinburgh Epistle to J. L*****, an old Scotch Bard (John Lapraik) To the same Epistle to W. S*****, Ochiltree (William Simpson) Epistle...
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