Mount Davis

English

Etymology

Named after Sir John Francis Davis, the 2nd Governor of British Hong Kong.

Proper noun

Mount Davis

  1. A hill in Kennedy Town, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
    • 2001, Dauril Alden, Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life : Soldier, Historian, Teacher, Collector, Traveller‎[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 147:
      As mentioned, the 1st Middlesex occupied beach pill boxes extending along the west, south and eastern littoral from beneath Mount Davis in the West to Sau Kei Wan [Shau Kei Wan] Hill in the northeast. The Hong Kong Volunteers, mostly assigned to man weapons ranging from artillery to machine guns, together with various auxiliary units, supported these units.
    • 2013 July 11, “PRESS DIGEST - Hong Kong - July 12”, in Reuters‎[2], archived from the original on 17 May 2021, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS‎[3]:
      The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a top American business school, is set to relocate its Singapore campus to Hong Kong next year after the government offered it a 17,000 sq ft heritage building on Mount Davis for a one-off premium of just HK$1,000 ($130).
    • 2023 September 14, James Lee, “Hong Kong urban planning NGO finds 173 alleged illegal structures at luxury houses”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎[4], archived from the original on 29 February 2024, Hong Kong:
      Villa Cecil on Mount Davis was found to have had a private pool partially on government land for over two decades.
  2. An area of Kennedy Town, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

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