Obituaries and Appreciations
Inscription on memorial stone, The Old Protestant Cemetery, Macao:
In memory of
Lindsay Tasman Ride
Knight, Scholar, Soldier, Musician, Sportsman, Benefactor, and Friend.
Born 10th October 1898, Victoria - Australia
Dies 17th October 1977, Hong Kong
“His ashes live in this quiet garden he did so much to make more beautiful. His eager invincible spirit lives in God.
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward. Never doubted clouds would break. Never dreamed though right were worsted wrong would triumph. Held we fall, to rise are baffled to fight better. Sleep to wake.”
1. Obituaries of Sir Lindsay T. Ride
South China Morning Post, (CONTRIBUTED*), October 19th 1977.
2. The Lancet, October 29 1977.
3. British Medical Journal November 5 1977
4. Ormond College - The University of Melbourne
5. Appreciations
Acknowledgement to Brian Edgar
“… One of the men under Sloss at the University was Lindsay Ride, who’d been made a professor of physiology in 1928. Ride was a man who seemed able to turn his hand successfully to almost anything: before the war a medical professor and author, during the fighting head of the Volunteers’ Field Ambulance Unit, and after escaping from Sham Shui Po in early 1942 the founder and leader of the BAAG, a resistance organisation that chalked up a huge number of successes – in escape, evasion, intelligence gathering, sabotage, propaganda and relief – partly because Ride proved a master at managing the complex relations with other British organizations, the Americans, and the two warring Chinese factions of Communists and Nationalists. After the war, Sloss emerged from Stanley to get the University back on its feet, to be followed by Ride who started the process whereby it now vies with the Universities of Tokyo and Singapore for the top position in Asia (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking/region/asia). It’s actually one of the top fifty universities in the world, and amazingly it began its ascent to the global first rank under the leadership of two men who were active in Hong Kong before the war.”
6. Extract from “The University of Hong Kong – an informal history” by Bernhard Mellor
Page 143 - 144
7. Message received from Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, at the BAAG Tenth Anniversary 25th July 1952.