Sir Robert Ho Tung
“I really admire my grandfather for rising from picking up scrap metal in the streets to his status. I am only third generation. He was the one who rose up.”
- Grandson Robert H. N. Ho
BOOKS
A. R Burt, J.B. Powell and Carl Crow (eds), Biographies of Prominent Chinese (1925)
John M. Carroll, Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong (2005)
Irene Cheng, Clara Ho Tung, A Hong Kong Lady: Her Family and Her Times (1976) and Intercultural Reminiscences (1997)
David Faure, A Documentary History of Hong Kong: Society (1997)
Jean Gittins, Behind Barbed Wire (1982)
Alexander Grantham, Via Ports: From Hong Kong to Hong Kong (1965)
Eric Ho, Tracing My Children’s Lineage (2010)
May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn (eds), Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography (2013)
Hong Kong Centenary Commemorative Talks, 1841-1941 (1941)
Chan Lau Kit Ching, China, Britain and Hong Kong 1895-1945 (1990)
Vicky Lee, Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides (2004)
Frances Tse Liu, Ho Kom Tong: A Man for All Seasons (2003)
Christopher Munn, Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule 1841-1880 (2001)
Elizabeth Sinn, Power and Charity: A Chinese Merchant Elite in Hong Kong (2003)
Carl T Smith, “Protected Women in 19th Century Hong Kong” in M Jaschok and S Miers (eds), Women and Chinese Patriarchy: Submission, Servitude, and Escape (1994)
Arnold Wright (ed), Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports in China (1908)
Victor Zheng and Wong Siu Lun, Ho Tung: The Grand Old Man of Hong Kong, (2007) and Ho Shai Lai (2008)
NEWSPAPERS
New York Times, September 28, 1908; San Francisco Chronicle, 11 November 1908
South China Morning Post, 3 December 1941, 27 April-2 May, 1956
The Straits Times, 27 April, 1956
ONLINE
“Architectural Appraisal of Ho Tung Gardens”, by Ho Yin Lee, Lynne D. DiStefano and Curry C.K. Tse, Antiquities and Monuments Office, HKSAR Government, http://www.amo.gov.hk/form/briefing/htgaa_report.pdf, accessed 02/03/16
Charles Bosman, http://gwulo.com/charles-henri-maurice-bosman, accessed 27/7/15
Hotung Secondary School, http://www.hotungss.edu.hk/hotungss/information/history.htm, accessed 23/04/16
Labour and Welfare Department, www.lwb.gov.hk/eng/press/05022016.htm, accessed 23/04/16
Queen’s College Old Boys’ Association, http://qcoba.hk/en/aboutus/mission/index.html, accessed 26/02/16
Robert Ho Tung, www.geni.com, accessed 03/03/16
Robert Hotung, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hotung, accessed 24/7/15
Tung Lin Kok Yuen, online history, http://tlky.buddhistdoor.com/, accessed 03/03/16
University of Hong Kong, www4.hku.hk/hongrads/index.php/about/history/tradition, accessed 26/02/16
RADIO
Paul Harrison, “Sir Robert Ho Tung” and “Ho Kom Tong” in Hong Kong History with Paul Harrison, RTHK Podcasts, (2011, 2010)
INTERVIEWS
Mr Robert H. N. Ho, October 2015