Sir Kai Ho-Kai

On the terraces to the right of the chapel, in Section 8 is the grave of the brilliant lawyer and doctor, Sir Kai Ho-Kai. He qualified in Aberdeen, Scotland, as a doctor and at Lincoln's Inn in London as a barrister and married an English girl, Alice Walkden. She died only two years after coming to Hong Kong in 1884, saddened by the death of her baby and weakened by illness. To commemorate her Sir Ho-Kai donated a sum of money to build the Alice Memorial Hospital, where he taught medical jurisprudence at the newly opened Hong Kong College of Medicine.

Sir Ho-Kai was a Legislative Councillor for twenty- four years. He also served on the Public Works Board, the Standing Law Committee, the Examination Board, the District Watch Committee, the Tung Wah Advisory Board, and was a founding member of Hong Kong University and St Stephen's College. It is not surprising that he had little time for his own affairs and died in 1914 aged fifty-five, intestate and penniless, leaving his second wife, Lady Ho Lai Yuk Hing, and seventeen children in dire straits.