Edward Osborne (Mayor of Hythe)

He was the secretary for the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company (1889–1913), member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1906–1913), and Mayor of Hythe (1922–24).

As secretary he encountered innumerable difficulties arising out of the organised attempts of the Chinese guilds to oppose the progress of the foreigner.

[1] Osborne was also director of the Dairy Farm, Steam Laundry and was member of the consulting committee of the AS Watson and the China Borneo Company.

He also rescued the Hongkong Hotel Company from imminent bankruptcy at the request of the HSBC and the mortgagees, by placing it upon a dividend-paying basis.

In 1913, he was appointed to a committee to investigate Green Island Cement[1] Osborne retired from the Wharf Company in 1913 and left Hong Kong aboard the Empress of Japan to his family in Hythe.