John MacNeile Price FGS FRGS (1843 – 11 November 1922) was a British civil engineer and the Surveyor General of Hong Kong. Price was born in Marylebone, London, to Richard Evan Price, a merchant in South America, and Fanny Nugent Price. He was the first qualified and competent Surveyor General in Hong Kong's history from 1873 to 1889. He was conversant with electrical engineering developments both in Europe and America. He met with Layton and Wickham from the Hongkong Electric Company to develop electricity in the colony. As a result, the government offered $19,000 for fifty arc lamps and pumping water up to the houses on the Peak.
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| - 裴樂士（英語：John MacNeile Price）（1841年－1922年11月11日）英國工程師、前香港政府官員。1873年來到香港，歷任量地官、立法局議員、行政局議員、潔淨局主席等職。1889年退休回國。 裴樂士任內興建大潭水塘、、鶴咀燈塔、青洲燈塔、香港天文台、荷李活道皇仁書院、水警總部等建築，現已成為香港法定古蹟。香港的以他命名。 裴樂士晚年退居於西班牙海外領土加那利群島，1922年11月11日在當地逝世。 (zh)
- John MacNeile Price FGS FRGS (1843 – 11 November 1922) was a British civil engineer and the Surveyor General of Hong Kong. Price was born in Marylebone, London, to Richard Evan Price, a merchant in South America, and Fanny Nugent Price. He was the first qualified and competent Surveyor General in Hong Kong's history from 1873 to 1889. He was conversant with electrical engineering developments both in Europe and America. He met with Layton and Wickham from the Hongkong Electric Company to develop electricity in the colony. As a result, the government offered $19,000 for fifty arc lamps and pumping water up to the houses on the Peak. (en)
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| - John MacNeile Price FGS FRGS (1843 – 11 November 1922) was a British civil engineer and the Surveyor General of Hong Kong. Price was born in Marylebone, London, to Richard Evan Price, a merchant in South America, and Fanny Nugent Price. He was the first qualified and competent Surveyor General in Hong Kong's history from 1873 to 1889. He was conversant with electrical engineering developments both in Europe and America. He met with Layton and Wickham from the Hongkong Electric Company to develop electricity in the colony. As a result, the government offered $19,000 for fifty arc lamps and pumping water up to the houses on the Peak. Price was also responsible for the redrew the proposal of the Hong Kong Observatory which Major H. S. Palmer initial proposal was rejected on the ground of cost in 1881. Price proposed the revised proposal to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in London in 1882. His plan was approved in Many and construction started in 1883. As the Surveyor General, Price was also appointed member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council on 11 December 1876. He was also Honorary Chairman of the Sanitary Board when it was first established in 1883. He sued the Robert Fraser-Smith, founder of the Hongkong Telegraph in November 1883 who accused him of jobbery and corruption but lost the case. He died in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. (en)
- 裴樂士（英語：John MacNeile Price）（1841年－1922年11月11日）英國工程師、前香港政府官員。1873年來到香港，歷任量地官、立法局議員、行政局議員、潔淨局主席等職。1889年退休回國。 裴樂士任內興建大潭水塘、、鶴咀燈塔、青洲燈塔、香港天文台、荷李活道皇仁書院、水警總部等建築，現已成為香港法定古蹟。香港的以他命名。 裴樂士晚年退居於西班牙海外領土加那利群島，1922年11月11日在當地逝世。 (zh)
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