繁體中文
何啟（Sir Kai Ho Kai，1859–1914），字迪之，1859年3月21日生於香港，父親為何福堂牧師，姊姊何妙齡嫁予伍廷芳，伍氏為首位華人立法局非官守議員。他早年就讀中央書院，1871年赴英國，1875年入蘇格蘭阿伯丁大學習醫，1879年畢業，成為首位華人專業內科醫生；其後轉入林肯律師學院，1881年取得大律師資格，翌年與英籍妻子雅麗氏（Alice Walkden）返港；雅麗氏於1884年病逝，他其後促成以其命名的醫院，以作紀念。1887年，他與倫敦傳道會及白文信醫生創辦雅麗氏利濟醫院，附設的香港華人西醫書院即香港大學醫學院前身，孫中山亦曾在此習醫。1890年獲委任立法局非官守議員，連任二十四年，任內就華人權益、公共衛生及市區建設多次發言，1906至1914年任首席非官守議員；任內動議保存宋王臺古蹟，促成1899年《保存宋王臺條例》。1900年義和團事變期間，他鼓吹「兩廣獨立」並與胡禮垣合著《新政真詮》，闡述改革主張。他亦長期在報章撰文評論時政，影響華人社會輿論。1909年出任香港大學籌備委員會捐助董事會主席，促成1912年3月港大揭幕。1912年他獲封爵士，為首位獲封爵士的華人。1914年他與姻親區德創辦啟德營業有限公司，於九龍灣填海建造啟德濱花園城市，同年7月21日病逝，終年五十五歲，去世時因該項投資失利而負債。他學貫中西，既能行醫又通法律，其公共服務橫跨醫療、法律、教育與城市規劃，並以專業與公共身份長期推動華人社會的醫療及教育事務。
English
Sir Kai Ho Kai (1859-1914), courtesy name Dik-chi, was born in Hong Kong on 21 March 1859, son of the Rev. Ho Fuk-tong; his sister Ho Miu-ling married Wu Ting-fang, who became the first Chinese unofficial member of the Legislative Council. Educated at the Central School, he went to Britain in 1871, entered the University of Aberdeen in 1875 to study medicine and graduated in 1879 as the first Chinese professional physician, then read law at Lincoln's Inn, being called to the bar in 1881; the next year he returned to Hong Kong with his English wife Alice Walkden, who died in 1884 and after whom he later helped name a hospital. In 1887, with the London Missionary Society and Dr Patrick Manson, he founded the Alice Memorial Hospital, whose attached College of Medicine for Chinese became the forerunner of the University of Hong Kong's medical faculty and where Sun Yat-sen studied. Appointed an unofficial member of the Legislative Council in 1890, he served for twenty-four years, speaking often on Chinese rights, public health and urban development, and was Senior Unofficial Member from 1906 to 1914; he moved the motion to preserve the Sung Wong Toi relic, leading to the 1899 ordinance protecting the site. During the Boxer crisis of 1900 he advocated the independence of the two Kwangs and, with Hu Li-yuan, wrote the reform treatise Xin Zheng Zhen Quan, and he also wrote regularly in the press on current affairs, shaping Chinese public opinion. In 1909 he chaired the donating board of the University of Hong Kong's preparatory committee, helping bring about its opening in March 1912, and in 1912 he was knighted, the first Chinese in Hong Kong to receive the honour. In 1914 he and his in-law Au Tak founded the Kai Tak Land Investment Company to build the Kai Tak Bund garden city on reclaimed land in Kowloon Bay; he died on 21 July 1914, aged 55, leaving debts after that investment failed. A man versed in both Eastern and Western learning, he combined medical and legal practice with public service spanning medicine, law, education and town planning.
