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Commercial (First)
The Commercial (First) functional constituency () is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1985. The constituency is composed of corporate members of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC) that are entitled to vote at general meetings of the Chamber. It is one of the oldest functional constituencies created for the first elections to the Legislative Council in 1985. Prior to that, the Chamber had its representatives in the council thoroughly through elections at the general meetings since 1884. It corresponds to the Commercial (First) Subsector in the Election Committee. History The Commercial (First) functional constituency was established as First Commercial, one of the two commercial electoral divisions elected by the chambers of commerce. It was one of the original 12 functional constituency seats created for the 1985 Legislative Council election, the first ever election for the colonial legislature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Functional Constituency (Hong Kong)
In the political systems of Hong Kong, a functional constituency is a professional or special interest group involved in the electoral process. Eligible voters in a functional constituency may include natural persons as well as other designated legal entities such as organisations and corporations. (See: legal personality) History The concept of functional constituencies (FC) in Hong Kong was first developed in the release of "Green Paper: A Pattern of District Administration in Hong Kong" on 18 July 1984 when indirect elections were introduced to the Legislative Council for the first time. The paper suggested that the Legislative Council create 24 seats with 12 seats from different professional interest groups. The 11 original functional constituencies created in 1985 were: * First Commercial ( HKGCC) * Second Commercial ( CGCC) * First Industrial ( FHKI) * Second Industrial ( CMAHK) * Financial ( HKAB) * Labour (2 seats) * Social Services ( HKCSS) * Medical ( HKMA) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Victor David Parr
Edward Victor David Parr, JP was a British businessman and unofficial member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Biography Parr first arrived in Hong Kong in 1896. After that he had been stationed Shanghai, Japan and India. He returned to Hong Kong and became head of many leading companies in Hong Kong. He was the acting superintendent of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company in 1916. In 1920 he was elected by the directors as the chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. He remained on the board until his resignation in 1924 on leaving Hong Kong. He was active in the British business community and was made Justice of the Peace in April 1915. In January 1916, Parr signed a petition organised by Sir Henry Pollock to the Secretary of State for the Colonies for constitution reform in Hong Kong. It demanded a larger increase of unofficial members in the Executive Council and also all unofficial members in the Legislative Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ronald Ross
George Ronald Ross (22 July 1914 – 10 March 2008) was a British businessman in Hong Kong. He was chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Standing Committee on Directorate Salaries (for the Hong Kong Government) for so long it became known as the "Ross Committee". He was also a member of the Executive Council and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and a taipan of Deacon & Co, a well known trading company. Early life Ross was born in July 1914. After studying in Belfast he sailed out to Shanghai to join his parents in 1933. His first job was for the Danish firm of East Asiatic where he learnt about shipping. He next went to work for accountants, Lowe Bingham and Matthews, before eventually working for Deacon & Co in Shameen and later Hong Kong. It was at this time while playing golf at the Tungshan Golf Club that he met his future wife, Rae Stratton, the daughter of William Murray Stratton, who was Engineer-in-chief for the Canton-Kowloon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George MacDonald Goldsack
George McDonald Goldsack (18 September 1902 – 16 August 1969) was a British businessman in China and Hong Kong. He was an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1960 to 1961. Goldsack was born on 18 September 1902 on 5 Nightingdale Road, Dover, England. He married Charlotte Mernetta Richards (1908–1997) and moved to Shanghai, China for worked for the Dodwell & Co., one of the leading British trading firms in China at that time. During the Second World War they were imprisoned for four years. He was the chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the chamber representative in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1960 to 61 until he retired in 1961 and returned to Dover. He died on 16 August 1969 in Benenden, Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Clague
Sir Douglas Clague (13 June 1917 – 11 March 1981) was a British Hong Kong soldier and entrepreneur who spent most of his life in Hong Kong. Early Years Born in South Rhodesia, in 1917, Clague arrived in Hong Kong in 1940 as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, and on the outbreak of World War II became a prisoner in the Sham Shui Po PoW camp.HONG KONG: Trouble in the Hongs , 20 October 1975 He later escaped, and joined the in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Arthur Blackwood
John Arthur Blackwood (3 November 1904 – 6 August 1973) was a British Hong Kong businessman. He was the taipan of Butterfield & Swire and chairman of Cathay Pacific Airways. Between 1954 and 1955, he was the chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, replacing Cedric Blaker. He represented the Chamber of Commerce as an Unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1954 to 1955. In the Legislative Council, he strongly opposed the introduction of section 27 to the Inland Revenue Ordinance, which allowed the government (in case of doubt as to the provenance of a profit) to consider lack of overseas taxation as evidence that the profit in question arose in Hong Kong, thus becoming liable to taxation in Hong Kong. The section was repealed 27 years later as misconceived. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert John Collar
Hubert John Collar, CBE (18 January 1900 – 24 July 1985) was a British businessman in China and Hong Kong. He was the Hong Kong manager of the Imperial Chemical Industries and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Collar married Amy Frances "Bunty" Richardson, daughter of Dr. Alan Richardson, in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai in December 1924. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, he was interned and served as a camp representative. He was the Hong Kong manager of the Imperial Chemical Industries. In 1952, he was chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. He was also leading member of the China Association, a London-based group representing the interests of traders in China. In 1953, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong as the representative of the chamber of commerce. Collar was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1947 Birthday Honours The 1947 King's Birthday Honours were appointments by man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedric Blaker
Cedric Blaker (19 November 1889 – 18 June 1965) was a British entrepreneur in China and Hong Kong. He was the chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the ''South China Morning Post'' and the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and also an unofficial member of the Executive Council and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. His son, Baron Blaker, was a Conservative minister. Biography Blaker was born in West Sussex, England, on 19 November 1889 to the Reverend Cecil Renshaw Blaker and Annie Kirtley Blaker. His father was the first priest at Turners Hill from 1877 to 1914. He had a brother called Brian Oscar Blaker. He first went to China in 1911 to work for Butterfield and Swire, resigning in 1915 to join the armed forces. He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment in France from 1916 to 1919 during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross. After the war, he returned to China and joined the Gilman & Co., a trading firm in China and be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Stanley Cassidy
Philip Stanley Cassidy (30 March 1889 – 14 May 1971) was a British and Hong Kong entrepreneur. He was ''taipan'' of the John D. Hutchison & Co. and unofficial member of the Executive Council and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Biography Cassidy first came to Hong Kong in 1913 and worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation before he was invited into partnership of the John D. Hutchison & Co., an import and export company, with his brother-in-law T. E. Pearce in 1922. They set up a branch office in Canton in 1929 which ceased to operate in 1941. Cassidy became the ''taipan'' of the John D. Hutchison & Co. after Pearce was killed in the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941. He was member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and was its chairman from 1948 to 1950 and again from 1951 to 1952. He was elected by the chamber of commerce to serve on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1948 and served on the Executive Council of Hong Kong from 1951 to 1952. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Dare Gillespie
Ronald Dare Gillespie (14 April 1890 – 8 April 1981) was a Scottish Canadian businessman, British Army officer and politician in Hong Kong. He was member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1946 to 1948. Biography Ronald Dare Gillespie was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in April 1890 and was educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh He received his training in Edinburgh but returned to British Columbia to practise engineering and surveying. He served as Captain in the Gordon Highlanders during the First World War and was taken prisoner of war at La Bassee in January 1915 and was later exchanged. After the war, he joined the Imperial Chemical Industries, a British chemicals company which he later became the Chairman, and served in several cities in China. He was interned in Hong Kong by the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and was released in exchange for Japanese held by Canada in 1943. Gillespie then served in the British Raw Materials Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Theodore Johnson
Marcus Theodore Johnson was a British businessman and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Johnson joined the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and was the Deputy Chairman of the bank in 1937. He was also Chairman of the Hong Kong Jockey Club from 1935 to 1939. He was made Justice of the Peace and was appointed to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong during the Sir H. E. Pollock on leave in May 1936, and was appointed to the Legislative Council again in 1937 vice Arthur William Hughes Arthur William Hughes (5 May 1883 – 3 August 1964) was an Australian businessman, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the commander of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. Hughes was born in Adelaide, South Australia. During t ...'s resignation. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Marcus Theodore Hong Kong bankers British bankers Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong HSBC people British expatriates in Hong Kong 20th-century Hong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur William Hughes
Arthur William Hughes (5 May 1883 – 3 August 1964) was an Australian businessman, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the commander of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. Hughes was born in Adelaide, South Australia. During the First World War, he served in England and France with the 1st Pioneer Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). Hughes joined the Union Insurance Society of Canton and was manager of the company in San Francisco. He succeeded Paul Lauder as general manager in 1934 and later chairman of the company. He was also director of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. During 1936 and 1937, he was member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. On the eve of the Japanese invasion, Hughes was the commander of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps raised the number of the auxiliary force from 1,175 to 2,400 in June 1941, by recruiting men over 55 with military experience. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
