JACK, William Charles (HONGKONG), M. Inst. N.A.; Consulting En- gineer; b. Portsoy, N.B., Nov. 9, 1857. Served apprenticeship as marine engineer at George Clark's Southwick Engine Works, Sunder- land; went to sea as junior engineer from Wigham Richard- son's, Newcastle on Tyne, in 1879; Chief Engineer, 1882; appointed Ingenieur en Chef of "Service Subventionne des Correspondances Fluviales," Tonkin, in 1887, which post he held for eleven years, building fleet of river steamers, which included the light draft stern wheel steamer "Yunnan,"
the first steam vessel to successful-
ly navigate the Red River and reach the Chinese frontier through Tonkin, 1890; in recognition of this received from the French Govern-
ment the decoration of officer of the order of the Imperial Dragon of Annam; in 1898 joined the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. as Superintendent Engineer, and as their representative contracted with Admiral Dewey for salvage of sunken Spanish war vessels in Manila Bay, three of which were successfully floated and refitted in Honglong for the U. S. Navy; from 1901 to 1903 Assistant Mana-
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ger at the above Dock Co.'s Kowloon establishment, during which terin conducted several successful salvage operations; in 1905 contracted, in conjunction with Sir C. P. Chater, for the salvage of the French cruiser
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Sully," stranded in the Tonkin Gulf, which after months of arduous work was destroyed by typhoon on, October 28; elected President of Engineers Institute in 1904. Publications: An important paper read before Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hongkong, comparing relative cost of ship- building in that port and at home. Address: Robinson Road, Kow- loon, Hongkong.
JACKSON, Andrew Gilmore (HONG- KONG), Solicitor; n. of Sir Thomas Jackson, late Chief Manager Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank. Educ.: St. Andrew's College, Dublin. Articled to firm of Solicitors in Dublin; admitted as Solicitor to Supreme Court of Ireland, Dec. 24, 1903; came to Hongkong, May, 1906; admitted Solicitor of Supreme Court of Hongkong, May 23, 1903. Club: Hongkong. Address: The Peak, Hongkong.
JACKSON, James Edward (TAIPING),