Hillier_Street

Hillier Street

Hillier Street

Street in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Hillier Street (Chinese: 禧利街), is a street in Sheung Wan of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, located between Connaught Road Central and Queen's Road Central.

Hillier Street, Sheung Wan in October 2007.
A snake soup shop on the street in October 2007.

Name

It was named after Charles Batten Hillier. Hillier was chief magistrate of Hong Kong from 1847 to 1856, and then took up the consulship to Siam but survived there for only a few months before dying of dysentery.[1]: 182–3 

Roads and streets nearby

References

  1. [1]
    Munn, Christopher (2012). May Holdsworth; Christopher Munn (eds.). Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789888083664.

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