Ernest Hamilton Sharp: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
←Created page with '{{Infobox officeholder |image = |imagesize = |alt = |honorific-prefix = |name = Ernest Hamilton Sharp |honorific-s...' |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 08:28, 23 November 2013
Ernest Hamilton Sharp | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong | |
| In office 1916–1922 | |
| Appointed by | Sir Matthew Nathan |
| Preceded by | E. A. Hewett |
| Succeeded by | A. G. Stephen |
| Acting Attorney General for Hong Kong | |
| In office 1904–1905 | |
| Appointed by | Frederick Lugard |
| Preceded by | William Meigh Goodman |
| Succeeded by | William Meigh Goodman |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 9 February 1922 British Hong Kong |
| Alma mater | Lincoln College, Oxford University of Hong Kong |
Ernest Hamilton Sharp, K.C. (– 9 February 1922) was the barrister of Hong Kong.
He was educated at Lincoln College of the Oxford University and was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1891.
Sharp arrived in Hong Kong in the early 1890s. He was appointed as the King's Counsel in 1902. He had acted as the Attorney General for Hong Kong during the departure of William Meigh Goodman in 1904.[1] Sharp was later appointed as unofficial member of the Executive Council from 1916 to 1922.
Sharp was honoured as the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1918.[2]
He died of chronic nephritis at the Peak Hospital on 9 February 1922.[3]
References
- ^ "The Hong Kong Government Gazette" (PDF). Hong Kong Government Gazette. 26 August 1904.
- ^ "The Hong Kong Government Gazette" (PDF). Hong Kong Government Gazette. 15 March 1918.
- ^ "THE LATE HON. E. H. SHARP, K.C." The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser. 24 February 1922. p. 2.
Categories:
- 1922 deaths
- Attorneys General of Hong Kong
- Barristers of Hong Kong
- Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
- Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
- Members of the Inner Temple
- Queen's Counsel 1901–2000
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Hong Kong people of British descent
- Members of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
- British Freemasons