歷任港督 / Governor

彌敦

Matthew Nathan

1904–1907年在任

領域:政治人物

繁體中文

彌敦(Matthew Nathan,1862年—1939年)係英籍猶太裔軍人及殖民地官員,1862年生於倫敦,早年就讀於皇家軍事學院,畢業後加入皇家工程兵,曾參與1880年代嘅蘇丹尼羅河遠征,並先後派駐印度、緬甸同西非等地。1899年他獲委任為塞拉利昂總督,翌年轉任黃金海岸總督,成為首位出任大英帝國殖民地總督嘅猶太人;1904年7月29日他抵港,出任第十三任香港總督。任內他大力推動鐵路與基建,九廣鐵路英段(尖沙咀至羅湖,全長約三十五公里)於1906年動工、1910年10月1日通車,成為連接九龍與新界嘅交通命脈;他亦擴建道路網,發展九龍市區及中環、上環一帶。他任內香港交通發展迅速,1904年7月30日香港電車全線通車,1906年香港引入首批單層巴士。九龍最寬闊嘅幹道原稱羅便臣道,1909年3月19日改名彌敦道,以他命名。1906年9月18日颱風正面吹襲香港,即丙午風災,係香港開埠以來傷亡最慘重嘅自然災害之一,沿海船隻與房屋損毀嚴重,罹難人數逾萬;官方事後檢討天文台嘅警報機制,繼任台長亦加強風災預警與避風設施。佢係少數以工程師身分出掌殖民地嘅總督,任內重視技術官僚同實務規劃。1907年他離任,轉任昆士蘭總督至1913年,其後返英歷任愛爾蘭事務次官等職。佢離任後香港繼續沿用佢開拓嘅交通網絡,九廣鐵路成為日後連接中港嘅重要通道,他係少數先後管治香港同澳洲屬地嘅殖民地官員,晚年退休返英,1939年逝世。

English

Sir Matthew Nathan (1862-1939) was a British Jewish soldier and colonial administrator. Educated at the Royal Military Academy, he joined the Royal Engineers and served in India and Africa. Appointed Governor of the Gold Coast in 1900, he was the first Jewish person to govern a British colony, and on 29 July 1904 he arrived to become Hong Kong's thirteenth Governor. He pushed railways and infrastructure hard: construction of the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway from Tsim Sha Tsui to Lo Wu, some thirty-five kilometres, began in 1906 and opened on 1 October 1910 as the transport spine between Kowloon and the New Territories, while he extended roads, waterworks and urban planning and worked to improve Kowloon's transport and sanitation. Transport developed quickly under him: the Hong Kong tramway opened along the northern shore on 30 July 1904 and the colony's first single-deck buses arrived in 1906. Kowloon's widest artery, formerly Robinson Road, was renamed Nathan Road after him on 19 March 1909. On 18 September 1906 a typhoon struck Hong Kong head-on, one of the deadliest natural disasters since the colony's founding, wrecking coastal shipping and buildings and killing more than ten thousand people, after which an official review examined the Observatory's warning system and stronger storm warnings and shelters were introduced. He left in 1907 to become Governor of Queensland until 1913 and later served in Britain, including as Under-Secretary for Ireland; he died in 1939.

人物小檔 Profile

職業Occupation

工程師、殖民地行政官員、第十三任香港總督

年期Active period

1904–1907年在任

代表作Notable works

推動九廣鐵路英段興建;應對1906年丙午風災

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主要成就 Key Achievements

1900

出任黃金海岸總督,為首位猶太裔英國殖民地總督。

Became Governor of the Gold Coast, the first Jewish governor of a British colony.

1906

九廣鐵路英段動工,並應對丙午風災的災情。

Oversaw the start of work on the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway and the response to the 1906 typhoon disaster.

1909

九龍主要幹道由羅便臣道易名為彌敦道。

Kowloon's main artery was renamed Nathan Road from Robinson Road in his honour.

影響與傳承 Impact & Legacy

繁體中文

彌敦任內以鐵路及道路建設重塑九龍與新界嘅空間格局,九廣鐵路英段與以他命名嘅彌敦道,成為日後香港城市擴展嘅主軸。丙午風災後政府檢討天文台警報並加強避風設施,也強化了殖民地嘅災害應對。

English

Nathan reshaped the spatial layout of Kowloon and the New Territories through railways and roads; the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway and the Nathan Road named after him became the axes of the city's later expansion, while the official review and stronger storm shelters that followed the 1906 typhoon strengthened the colony's disaster response.

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