{"id":"cecil-harcourt","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/cecil-harcourt","language":"en","name":"Cecil Harcourt","name_en":"Cecil Harcourt","name_ne":null,"description":"Royal Navy admiral (1892-1959)","headline":"Royal Navy admiral (1892-1959)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt was a British naval officer. He was the de facto governor of Hong Kong as commander-in-chief and head of the military administration from September 1945 to May 1946. He was called by the Chinese name \"Ha Kok\", a reference to the fourth-century Chinese nobleman Chung Kok.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"11 April 1892","date":"1892-04-11"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056108#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Bromley","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122892"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056108#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"19 December 1959","date":"1959-12-19"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056108#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Chelsea","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q743535"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056108#P20"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"naval officer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10669499"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056108#P106"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Second Sea Lord (1948–1950)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3504955","start":"1948","end":"1950"},{"text":"Governor of Hong Kong (1 September 1945 – 1 May 1946)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1159846","start":"1945-09-01","end":"1946-05-01"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056108#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12201378"},{"text":"Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12177470"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056108#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Harcourt","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056108"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Cecil Harcourt born?","a":"Cecil Harcourt was born on 11 April 1892 in Bromley."},{"q":"What positions has Cecil Harcourt held?","a":"Positions held by Cecil Harcourt include: Second Sea Lord (1948–1950); Governor of Hong Kong (1945–1946)."}],"related":[{"name":"Matthew Nathan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/matthew-nathan"},{"name":"William Peel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/william-peel"},{"name":"Hugh Norman-Walker","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hugh-norman-walker"},{"name":"Alexander Robert Johnston","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alexander-robert-johnston"},{"name":"Franklin Gimson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/franklin-gimson"},{"name":"George Digby Barker","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/george-digby-barker"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/cecil-harcourt-0785c3f6d4.jpg","width":500,"height":366,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Royal Navy official photographer, Ware, C J (Lt)","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A21407.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Cecil Harcourt","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Harcourt","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q5056108","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056108","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: The Royal Navy during the Second World War A21407.jpg by Royal Navy official photographer, Ware, C J (Lt) (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A21407.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Cecil Harcourt, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: The Royal Navy during the Second World War A21407.jpg — Royal Navy official photographer, Ware, C J (Lt), Public domain.","cite":"\"Cecil Harcourt\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/cecil-harcourt. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T08:59:15Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/cecil-harcourt","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/cecil-harcourt","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/cecil-harcourt?lang=ne"}}