Francisco Xavier de Noronha Braga^1,2

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• (Witness) Photo: He was in the Photo of Carolina de Noronha circa 1875; Carolina (Noronha) Braga and her Family.³
  

Maria Teresa Braga^1,2

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• (Witness) Photo: She was in the Photo of Carolina de Noronha circa 1875; Carolina (Noronha) Braga and her Family.³
  

João Vicente de Noronha Braga^1,2

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• (Witness) Photo: He was in the Photo of Carolina de Noronha circa 1875; Carolina (Noronha) Braga and her Family.³
  

Braz Maria de Noronha Braga^1,2

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• (Witness) Photo: He was in the Photo of Carolina de Noronha circa 1875; Carolina (Noronha) Braga and her Family.³
  

António Manuel de Noronha Braga^1,2

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• (Witness) Photo: He was in the Photo of Carolina de Noronha circa 1875; Carolina (Noronha) Braga and her Family.³
  

Manuel António Braga^1,2

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José Pedro Braga OBE^1,2

José Pedro Braga #14487National Library of Australia

JP Braga, circa 1907 (from Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai and other Treaty Ports of China

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• (Witness) Photo: He was in the Photo of Carolina de Noronha circa 1875; Carolina (Noronha) Braga and her Family.³
  
• Marriage*: Olive Pauline Pollard, daughter of James Joseph Pollard and Mary Eleanor Weipert, at Cathedral, Hong Kong.
• Honours*:
  
  
       

  CavaleiroKnight Ordem Militar de Cristo de Portugal /Military Order of Christ of Portugal

  
  

  MembroMember Ordem do Império BritânicoOrder of the British Empire
       

  CavaleiroKnight Ordem de Santiago da Espada de PortugalOrder of St James of the Sword of Portugal.

  
  

  
  
• Occupation: Testimonial dinner menu.
  
• Biography*:
  
  His father went to Japan as the Chief Accountant of the Imperial Mint, Osaka, when JP Braga was an infant. Here he had a significant career in the early days of commercial practice in Meiji Japan. His career is recorded by K. Nishikawa, Nihon boki shidan, held by the National Library of Australia. He never returned to Hong Kong. JP Braga was brought up in the household of his maternal grandfather, Delfino Noronha, who had been the government printer almost from the beginning of the colony. Another major influence was JA Carvalho, who occupied a senior position in the Colonial Treasurer's office. Braga was thus brought up in an atmosphere of commitment to public affairs and with a strong community responsibility. He was a pupil at St Joseph's College, conducted by the French Lasallian Brothers to provide English-language education for the Catholic youth of Hong Kong. Excelling at his studies, he was sent by his family to Calcutta to further his education. Here he was Gold Medallist at Albert Memorial College in 1889. However, a smallpox epidemic led to the death of three of his brothers, and his mother requested him to return to assist in running the family business. His hopes of a successful legal career in Britain vanished. His hankering after a career as a barrister never left him, and was only satisfied by his appointment to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong forty years later.
  
  
  Back in Hong Kong, he threw himself into the family business and became active at once in public affairs, attacking what he regarded as injustice and discrimination against the Portuguese community in a small book published by his grandfather, The Rights of Aliens in Hongkong. He worked in his grandfather's printing business until the latter's death in 1900. Meanwhile he married on 5 May Olive Pauline Pollard, a member of the Pollard Liliputians (See Peter Downes, The Pollards, held by the National Library of Australia). They had 13 children, several of whom were to have significant careers, including JM "Jack" Braga, the eldest of nine sons.
  
  
  Braga was managing editor of the Hongkong Daily Telegraph from 1902 to 1909. In addition, he became the Hong Kong agent of Reuter's news agency from 1906 to 1931. From 1910 he ran his own printing business, JP Braga & Co, rising steadily in prominence and becoming one of the recognised leaders of the Portuguese community. In this community he was President of Club Lusitano and Patron of the Portuguese Company of the Hong Kong Volunteers. He was decorated by the Portuguese government with the rank of Comendador da Ordem de Cristo in recognition of his work in representing the government of Macau in dealing with a border dispute with China. In Hong Kong, he was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1919, a member of the Sanitary Board in 1927 and in 1929 became the first Portuguese member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council.
  
  
  He served two terms in this position, totalling eight years, being appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. His political career, widely reported in the Hong Kong press and recorded by JM Braga in his books of newspaper cuttings was often highly critical of Government, especially in its dealings with dispossessed and underprivileged people, mostly Chinese. He built up a fine library, almost all of which disappeared during World War II.
  
  
  The centenary of Hong Kong in 1941 was commemorated in many ways, one of which was the publication by JP Braga of a small book entitled Portuguese Pioneering: a Hundred Years of Hong Kong. It was the culmination of what had been a 50 year struggle to assert for his community equality of rights and equality of opportunity in a social, commercial and legal environment not always conducive to it. By 1941, his achievements had been considerable.
  
  
  Together with all Hong Kong residents, his world fell to pieces at the end of 1941 when Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese. Braga, who had secured British citizenship before he went to Calcutta in 1886, was now forced to renounce it, claiming Portuguese nationality. At first, he remained in Hong Kong, hoping to lead the Portuguese community in the tribulations it now faced. However between February and April 1942, most of that community fled to Macau and on 1 June 1942 JP Braga joined them as a refugee, living with his son Jack until his death.
  
  
  Stuart Braga.⁴
  
  
• Writings*: Click to see booklet "The Portuguese in Hongkong and China".

Olive Pauline Pollard^1,2

Delfino "Chappie" Braga, Olive Pauline Pollard Braga, Maude Braga, Jean Pauline Braga, Carolina Maria de Noronha Braga, Clemente Alberto Braga, José Maria "Jack" Braga

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• Nickname: "Crun."³
• (Witness) Photo: She was in the Photo of Delfino de Noronha on 30 June 1891; Program card for 67th birthday.⁴
  
• Married Name: Braga.
• Marriage*: José Pedro Braga OBE, son of Vicente Emílio Braga and Carolina Maria de Noronha, at Cathedral, Hong Kong.
• (Witness) Photo: She was in the Photo of Carolina de Noronha circa 1903; Carolina Maria Braga, Olive Braga and children.
  
• Photo*: Circa 1920; Olive Braga and children.
  

James Joseph Pollard^1,2

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• Marriage*: Mary Eleanor Weipert, daughter of William Weippert and Corunna Gooch Bradford; 15 children.³
• Marriage*: Corunna Weippert, daughter of William Weippert and Corunna Gooch Bradford; 3 children.³

Mary Eleanor Weipert^1,2,3

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• Marriage*: James Joseph Pollard; 15 children.¹
• Married Name: Pollard.