George Beer Endacott (28 February 1901 – September 1971) was a British-born

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

historian. He was born in South

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in the West England as a son of railway worker. He was educated at Tavistock Grammar School and

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and became a teacher. In the 1930s, he attended

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, Oxford and read politics, philosophy and economics, returning to teaching until he entered the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...

in 1942. During the

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he served mainly in the Mediterranean as an interpreter with the French forces. On leaving the Navy in 1946 he took up an appointment as lecturer in history at the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of ...

where he remained until his retirement in 1962. As a historian and author he wrote a number of books including ''A History of Hong Kong'', ''Fragrant Harbour'' (with A Hinton) and ''Government and the People''. The manuscript of his last book, ''Hong Kong Eclipse'', was almost finished at the time of his death. It was completed, at the request of the Hong Kong government, by Alan Birch, a senior member of the History Department at the University of Hong Kong who Endacott had asked to read the manuscript.

Bibliography

* Endacott, George Beer and Dorothy E. She (1949). ''The Diocese of Victoria, Hong Kong. A Hundred Years of Church History, 1849–1949.'' * * * * * * Endacott, George Beer (1967). ''Fourth Impression.'' *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Endacott, George Beer 20th-century Hong Kong historians Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Exeter Royal Navy officers of World War II Academic staff of the University of Hong Kong 1901 births 1971 deaths Writers from Tavistock Historians of Hong Kong Schoolteachers from Devon British expatriates in British Hong Kong