James Chater [SEP] educated at
James Chater
James Chater, British composer and musicologist, was born in Henley-on-Thames in 1951 and studied music at the University of Oxford, taking the BA in 1973 and the D.Phil. in 1980. His thesis, "Luca Marenzio and the Italian Madrigal, 1577-1593", was published as a book (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press) in 1981. He is the author of many articles on secular music in Italy in the late 16th century; these have appeared in "Early Music"
-handedly financed the construction of St. Andrew’s Church in Kowloon that is still in use and bears a plaque to his honor. Chater Road, Catchik Street and the office building Chater House are named after him. A commemorative plaque that mentions his Armenian past can be found in Chater House.
- Professor Hovhannes Ghazarian, an Armenian born and educated in Macau, was first to translate the Holy Bible into Chinese, in 1822. Ghazarian (also known as Johannes Lassar), translated the Gospel by St. Matthew in 1807