Career
He was the nephew of South. G. Bird, a long-time resident in Hong Kong who arrived in 1857 and carried out the first survey of Hong Kong. He went to Hong Kong to join the Palmer and Turner architect firm as an assistant in around 1892 or 1893. He became Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1897.
He had designed many of Hong Kong"s best known buildings.
He left Hong Kong on the Steamship Empress of Russia on 20 April 1927.
