Charles St. George CleverleyorCleverly (Chinese: 基化厘or急庇利; 8 July 1819 – 14 August 1897) was the second Surveyor General in Hong Kong. He worked under the Colonial Secretary and was responsible for public infrastructure, town planning and land auction.
Cleverly is famous for the construction of Government House. The construction began in October 1851 and finished in October 1855.[1]
His name was often registered in the Hong Kong Government Gazette in relation to the public auctionofcrown land and buildings.
Cleverly was born in Bloomsbury, London, one of five sons of the physician Samuel Cleverley, doctor to the Duke of Kent and Duke of Cambridge. His grandfather William Cleverley owned a shipyard beside the River Thames in London. He built many large ships for the British East India Company.[2]
He married Ah Gow Li (died 1847), with whom he had a daughter, Augusta Cleverly (1846–1930). He married secondly Mary Pope (1818–1875), with whom he had a son, Charles Frederick Moore Cleverly (1852–1921), who was the father of Sir Osmund Somers Cleverly, the Principal Private SecretaryofPrime Ministers Stanley Baldwin, and Neville Chamberlain.[3]
He died at his home in Great Malvern, Worcester.[4]
Cleverly StreetinSheung Wan, Hong Kong, is named after him.[5][6]
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| Preceded by | Surveyor General of Hong Kong 1845–1865 |
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