John Walter Hulme

picture info	John Walter Hulme John Walter Hulme was a British lawyer and Judge. He was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, Chief Justice of Hong Kong taking office in 1844. Early life Hulme was born in 1805 in Fenton, Staffordshire, England. He was the son of a "highly respectable solicitor." He was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1829. He served his pupillage with the noted barrister and author Joseph Chitty. He was a co-author with Chitty of ''A Practical Treatise on Bills of Exchange'' and ''A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility''. He also married Chitty's daughter, Eliza Legal appointment Hong Kong was ceded to the United Kingdom under the Treaty of Nanking signed in 1842. A military government was first formed. In 1844, civilian government was put in place headed by Governor John Francis Davis. Hulme was appointed the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, Chief Justice of Hong Kong. The Colonial Office had great difficulty in finding a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	John Walter Hulme John Walter Hulme was a British lawyer and Judge. He was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, Chief Justice of Hong Kong taking office in 1844. Early life Hulme was born in 1805 in Fenton, Staffordshire, England. He was the son of a "highly respectable solicitor." He was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1829. He served his pupillage with the noted barrister and author Joseph Chitty. He was a co-author with Chitty of ''A Practical Treatise on Bills of Exchange'' and ''A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility''. He also married Chitty's daughter, Eliza Legal appointment Hong Kong was ceded to the United Kingdom under the Treaty of Nanking signed in 1842. A military government was first formed. In 1844, civilian government was put in place headed by Governor John Francis Davis. Hulme was appointed the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, Chief Justice of Hong Kong. The Colonial Office had great difficulty in finding a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Esing Bakery Incident The Esing Bakery incident,Also spelled ESing, E-sing, or E Sing. also known as the Ah Lum affair, was a food contamination scandal in the early history of British Hong Kong. On 15 January 1857, during the Second Opium War, several hundred European residents were poisoned non-lethally by arsenic, found in bread produced by a Chinese-owned store, the Esing Bakery. The proprietor of the bakery, Cheong Ah-lum,Also spelled A(-)lum, Allum, Ahlum, or Ah Lum instead of Ah-lum, or Cheung instead of Cheong. was accused of plotting the poisoning but was acquitted in a trial by jury. Nonetheless, Cheong was successfully sued for damages and was banished from the colony. The true responsibility for the incident and its intention—whether it was an individual act of terrorism, commercial sabotage, a war crime orchestrated by the Qing dynasty, Qing government, or purely accidental—both remain a matter of debate. In Britain, the incident became a political issue during the 1857 United Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1861 Deaths Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry. Events January–March * January 1 Benito Juárez captures Mexico City. The first steam-powered carousel is recorded, in Bolton, England. * January 2 – Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies, and is succeeded by Wilhelm I. * January 3 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the Union. * January 9 – American Civil War: Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union. * January 10 – American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union. * January 11 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the Union. * January 12 – American Civil War: Major Robert Anderson sends dispatches to Washington. * January 19 – American Civil War: Georgia secedes from the Union. * January 21 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate. * January 26 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]