Catchick Paul Chater
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Sir Catchick Paul Chater (遮打;1846-1926) was a businessman in Hong Kong. He was born in Calcutta, India of Armenian parents Chater Paul Chater (1804-1853) and Miriam Chatchick Chater (his father was a member of the Indian Civil Service). Sir Chater was educated at the famous La Martiniere College in Calcutta of which he later became a benefactor. To honour his contribution to the school, Sir Paul Chater's name was included in the School Prayer. In the 1860s, he move to Hong Kong from Calcutta with the family of his sister Anna and sister's husband Jordan Paul Jordan.
In the early days in Hong Kong, he was an assistant at the Bank of Hindustan, China and Japan. In 1868, He and Sir Hormusjee Naorojee Mody formed Chater & Mody, and turned out a successful business partners in Hong Kong.
He helped Paul Manson to establish Dairy Farm, and he established Hong Kong Land with James Johnstone Keswick, the taipan of Jardine Matheson.
Sir Chater was enthusiastic in two sports:
- play for Hong Kong Cricket Club first eleven 1869-1879
- Chater was a horse-racing enthusiast and setup Mody Racing in 1872.
Other titles and positions held by Chater:
- Chair of the Perseverance Lodge 1873
- steward at the Hong Kong Jockey Club 1874-1924
- Senior Justice of the Peace in Hong Kong 1876-1926
- Chairman of the Board of Stewards of the Hong Kong Jockey Club 1880-1910
- District Grand Master of Hong Kong and South China 1882-1909
- director of Dairy Farm Co. Ltd set up by Patrick Manson 1886
- member of the Legislative Council 1887
- Consul for Siam in Hong Kong 1900-1907
- Treasurer and Chairman of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Committee 1887
- member of the Legion d’Honneur by the French Government at Tonkin 1892
- member of the Public Lighting Committee 1896
- member of the Governor’s Executive Council 1896
- Chairman of the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Committee 1897
- Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. John 1897
- Knighted. Became Sir Paul Chater 1902
- honorary degree of LL.D. by University of Hong Kong for services as the Honorary Treasurer 1923
Several places in Hong Kong are named after him, including:
- Chater Garden
- Chater House
- Chater Road
- Catchick Street
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