Charles St George Cleverly

Charles St. George Cleverley or Cleverly (Chinese: 基化厘 or 急庇利; 8 July 1819 – 14 August 1897) was the second Surveyor General in Hong Kong.

He worked under the Colonial Secretary and was responsible for public infrastructure, town planning and land auction.

[1] His name was often registered in the Hong Kong Government Gazette in relation to the public auction of crown land and buildings.

His grandfather William Cleverley owned a shipyard beside the River Thames in London.

He married secondly Mary Pope (1818–1875), with whom he had a son, Charles Frederick Moore Cleverly (1852–1921), who was the father of Sir Osmund Somers Cleverly, the Principal Private Secretary of Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin, and Neville Chamberlain.