page_title: Paul Chater
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Paul Chater / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Postcard of Marble Hall (aka Admiralty House), 1 Conduit Road, Hong Kong - residence of Catchick Paul Chater
context_page_description: Sir Catchick Paul Chater CMG was a prominent British-Indian businessman of Armenian descent in colonial Hong Kong, whose family roots were in Calcutta.
context_section_description: Chater died in 1926, and bequeathed Marble Hall and its entire contents, including his unique collection of porcelain and paintings, to Hong Kong. The remainder of his estate went to the Armenian Church of the Holy Nazareth in Calcutta, which runs a home for Armenian elderly, named The Sir Catchick Paul Chater Home. He was interred at the Hong Kong Cemetery.
  Chater's wife lived in Marble Hall as a life tenant until her death in 1935. Ownership then passed to the government. It became "Admiralty House" – the official residence of the Naval Commander-in-Chief, and was commandeered by Japanese during their occupation. It accidentally burned down in 1946, and the government buildings occupied the site since its demolition in 1953. Government residences named 'Chater Hall Flats' are today located on the site of Marble Hall.
  Chater amassed a large collection of historical pictures and engravings relating to China which he gifted to the colony. The Chater Collection was subject to a work by its curator, James Orange, in 1924, at which time the collection stood at 430 items. Its backbone was the collection of Wyndham Law of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and included oil paintings, watercolours, sketches, prints and photographs, most of which are based on landscape scenes of the South China trading ports in the 18th and 19th centuries, and of British activities in China. The Chater Collection was dispersed and largely destroyed during the Japanese occupation, and only 94 pieces (now an important part of the collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art) are known to have survived.
  Chater's nephew (Anna's son) Gregory Paul Jordan was instrumental in developing medical services and education in Hong Kong and in the founding of the University of Hong Kong.  He was its second vice-chancellor.
  On the occasion of Paul Chater's 171 birthday a bust of Paul Chater was unveiled at the La Martiniere Boys School, Kolkata.
  Chater Garden
  Chater House
  Chater Road
  Catchick Street
  Peking Road was named Chater Street until 1909, when it was renamed to avoid confusion with Chater Road.
caption: Marble Hall, subject of a 1935 Christmas postcard
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