Hillier Street
Hillier Street (Chinese: 禧利街), is a street in Sheung Wan of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, located between Connaught Road Central and Queen's Road Central.
Name
[edit]It was named after Charles Batten Hillier. Hillier was chief magistrate of Hong Kong from 1847 to 1856, and then took up the consulship to Siam but survived there for only a few months before dying of dysentery.[1]: 182–3
Roads and streets nearby
[edit]- Sheung Wan station of the MTR
- Wing Lok Street
- Des Voeux Road Central
- Bonham Strand
- Mercer Street
- Burd Street
- Jervois Street
- Kwai Wa Lane
References
[edit]- ^ Munn, Christopher (2012). May Holdsworth; Christopher Munn (eds.). Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789888083664.
Sources
[edit]- Bloomfield, Frena (1984). Hong Kong's Street Names and Their Origins. Vol. 1. Urban Council, Hong Kong. ASIN B000HZIVAE. OCLC 320407030. Archived from the original on 2014-11-07.
- UK in Thailand Embassy history: Charles Batten Hillier
- Endacott, G. B. (2005) [1962]. "Chapter: Charles Batten Hillier". A biographical sketch-book of early Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 84–88. ISBN 978-962-209-742-1.
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