Stanley Ho’s real surname is Bosman (dtuch). Him, Bruce Lee and numerous HK/Macau luminaries are direct descendant from Charles Henry Maurice Bosman (pronounced in Cantonese as Ho Tung) a Dutch Jew. Like many Jew, Arab and South Asian merchants, quickly naturalised in East Asia as they could not get enough of Chinese pussies. This ancestor pumped a Qing Dynasty Cantonese slut full tank and left for Europe. One of his son became the Famous Robert Ho Tung who became influential as an intermediary between full blood AMDK colonial masters and the local Chinks.
Charles Henri Maurice BOSMAN [c.1839-1892] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong
Dutch born Bosman, arrived in Hong Kong about 1859 where, at the age of 20 he was working for the Dutch coolie trader, Cornelius Koopmanschap.
He met a Ms. Sze and the first of their five children was born when he was 22 years old and she was 20.
In 1862, aged 24, the company name was changed to
Bosman & Co. in Hong Kong
, and
Koopmanschap & Co in San Francisco.
He also became the Dutch Consul. What was the value to a coolie trader of being Dutch Consul ? The shipping of "emigrants" to Dutch Guiana had to be done under his consular supervision.
In 1867, the US Congress banned the coolie trade to the USA as being a form of slavery.
When he was 29, he was part owner of the Hongkong Hotel in 1868 and was there for the grand opening, He was also a director of the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company. (James Whittall, the resident senior partner of Jardines at the time, was chairman of the Dock Company, the same J. Wittall for whom Bosman was working before he died).
Bosman was described by the Dutch Ambassador to Britian as "a prestigious man, well received among the upper classes" and one of the most important businessmen with China and Hong Kong.
However, his business was not doing well. He sold his assets and left Hong Kong, also leaving behind Ms. Sze and their five children. She, at age 28, then became the concubine of Mr. Kwok and had three children with him.
In 1873, when Bosman was 34, he started the "Eastern Agency" in London.
Four years later, when he was 38 and she was 21, he married Mary Agnes Forbes in San Francisco, 4 October 1877 and she moved to London too. Miss Forbes' father, Alexander, was a well known "pioneer" in the Bay Area, developing subdivisions of land in San Rafael near San Francisco.
While Bosman was courting Mary Agnes, Bosman's sons by Ms. Sze were teenagers, being educated at the "Central School", Hong Kong (later Queen's College) but it is not known who paid their school fees. One of those sons became Sir Robert Ho Tung.
It appears that Alexander Forbes, Bosman's father-in-law, was English and the chairman of the San Francisco Committee of the Anglo-California Foundation, and that Bosman represented them when they gave a lovely gold and silver casket to the British Prime Minster, Lord Beaconsfield in 1879.