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List Of Executive Council Of Hong Kong Unofficial Members 1946–1997
This is the list of the unofficial members of the Executive Council of Hong Kong (ExCo) from 1946 the reestablishment of the civil government of the British Hong Kong until the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. Information is generated from the Hong Kong government's annual reports. Change in composition List of the Unofficial Members of the Executive Council See also * List of Executive Council of Hong Kong unofficial members 1896–1941 This is a list of unofficial members of the Executive Council in the colonial period from 1850 to 1941. The term of the Executive Council was interrupted during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong ... * List of Legislative Council of Hong Kong unofficial members 1946–1985 References {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Executive Council of Hong Kong unofficial members 1946-1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unofficial Members Of The Hong Kong Executive Council
In Hong Kong, the Unofficial Members of the Executive Council (also Non-Official Members of the Executive Council) () are a group of officials that do not hold office in the government but are appointed to advise and assist the Chief Executive, or during colonial period the Governor, in the Executive Council. These officials used to be provided with research and administrative assistance by the Office of the Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils. See also * Executive Council of Hong Kong *List of Executive Council of Hong Kong unofficial members 1896–1941 This is a list of unofficial members of the Executive Council in the colonial period from 1850 to 1941. The term of the Executive Council was interrupted during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong ... * List of Executive Council of Hong Kong unofficial members 1946–1997 References Executive Council of Hong Kong Politics of Hong Kong { ... [...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] |
William Charles Goddard Knowles
William Charles Goddard Knowles, CBE, MA, LLD, JP (; 12 January 1908 – 13 January 1969) was a British businessman in Hong Kong. He was general manager of the Butterfield and Swire, chairman of the Cathay Pacific Airways, member of the Legislative Council and the Executive Council and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. Biography Knowles was born in Bombay, British India on 12 January 1908. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, Sussex, and Trinity College, Cambridge. After he graduated he joined Butterfield and Swire and its parent company in London. From 1929 to 39, he worked in different Chinese cities including Yangtze ports, Hong Kong, Tientsin and Shanghai. He served in the Indian Army during the Second World War and resumed his office at Butterfield and Swire in Shanghai after the war ended. He moved to Hong Kong in 1947 and was appointed general manager of the company in 1957. He was also chairman of associated companies such as Taikoo Dockya ... [...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] |
Kwan Cho-yiu
Sir Cho-yiu Kwan (; 10 July 1907 – 7 December 1971) was a prominent Hong Kong politician and public figure in the 1960s. He was the Senior Chinese Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council of Hong Kong and the founding chairman of the Council of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For his contributions to Hong Kong, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1969. Early life, education and legal career Kwan was born on 10 July 1907 with the family root in Kaiping, Guangdong. He was educated at the Diocesan Boys' School and graduated in 1924. He later went abroad and studied law at the University of London in England. In May 1931, he was called to the bar in Lincoln's Inn and received his professional qualifications. He was a friend of General Ho Sai-lai, the son of Sir Robert Ho Tung during his time in England. He set up his own law firm, CY Kwan & Co, with the help of Sir Ho Tung in 1931 soon after he returned from England. During the Japanese occ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Charles Lee
Richard Charles Lee Ming-Chak, CBE (; 7 March 1905 – 6 July 1983) was a Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist. Early life Lee was born on 7 March 1905 in British Hong Kong. Lee's father was Hysan Lee, a prominent local merchant and often nicknamed the "King of Opium". Lee's younger brother was Jung Kong Lee. Lee's ancestral home was Xinhui, Guangdong, China. Education After Lee studied at the Queen's College, he was sent to study in England and graduated from the Pembroke College, Oxford with the bachelor's and master's degrees in Engineering Science. During his study at Oxford, he was the president of the Central Union of Chinese Students of Great Britain and Ireland. Career Lee worked at the Chinese Red Cross during the Second Sino-Japanese War and returned to Hong Kong in 1945. Besides taking part of the family business, he was also directors of more than 60 companies, including the vice-chairman of the board of directors of the N. M. Rothschild & Sons (Hong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Osborne Wauchope Stewart
George Osborne Wauchope Stewart, JP was a British banker. He was the deputy chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and became the chairman of the Mercantile Bank of India in 1966 after it was acquired by the Hongkong Bank. Stewart joined the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in around 1929 and worked for it for forty years. He spent his early career in Shanghai. From 1952 to 1953, he was chief accountant of the Bank, and as such Hong Kong banknotes displayed his signature. Later, he was the deputy chief manager under chief manager Michael Turner. During Turner's absence in 1961, Stewart was appointed provisionally to the Executive Council of Hong Kong for a brief period of time. Stewart was involved in the Hongkong Bank's takeover of the British Bank of the Middle East in 1959 in order to prevent an American bank taking control, as suggested by London manager S. W. P. Perry-Aldworth. Stewart later sat on the board of the British Bank of the Mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Maria Rodrigues
Sir Alberto Maria Rodrigues (, 5 November 1911 – 5 February 2006) was a Hong Kong medical doctor, academic and politician. He was Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, and Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Executive Council of the University of Hong Kong. Early life and education He was born on 5 November 1911 (the Guy Fawkes' Day in Hong Kong). His mother's death occurred a few weeks after he was born, his father died when he was nine years old. He was brought up by an uncle who had seven children of his own. He was educated at St Joseph's College, and the University of Hong Kong with the Inez Soares scholarship. He captained in the University Cricket Eleven and finished at the top of the League in 1932. Rodrigues also a Captain of Hockey and played hockey for Hong Kong. Although he was preoccupied with sporting activities, he passed his medical finals in 1934, receiving his degree and winning the Chan Kai Ming Prize. He studied paediatrics, ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngan Shing-kwan
Ngan Shing-kwan, (; 1900 or 1903 – 14 April 2001), born in Hong Kong,List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States Immigrant Inspector at Port of Arrival: S.S. General W. H. Gordon . San Francisco, California: Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Labor, 21 August 1947.Manifest of In-Bound Passengers (Aliens): S.S. President Cleveland . San Francisco, California: Immigration and Naturalization Service, United States Department of Justice, 17 June 1950. was a notable |
Lo Man-wai
Lo Man-wai CBE (1895 – 5 April 1985) was a prominent lawyer and politician in Hong Kong who served as a member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Biography Lo Man-wai was born in 1895 in Hong Kong. His father was the wealthy Hong Kong merchant and compradore of Jardine, Matheson & Co., Lo Cheung-shiu. His brother, Lo Man-kam, was also a prominent lawyer who served on the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong prior to the 1950s. Man-wai was educated at Queen's College. After graduating, he went to England to study law along with his brother. In 1916, they returned to Hong Kong and founded the law firm Lo and Lo. He had three sons and a daughter. His second son, Kenneth Lo Tak-cheung, later joined Lo and Lo and became a member of the Urban Council. During the Canton–Hong Kong strike, Lo and his brother Lo Man-kam joined the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, and more Hong Kong Chinese followed. Man-wai was appointed a Justice of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwok Chan
Kwok Chan (, 1904 – 17 June 1967) was a Hong Kong businessman and member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. Early life Kwok was the second son of the Hong Kong businessman Kwok Shiu-lau. He was born in Hong Kong and was educated at the Diocesan Boys' School. He studied business at the University of Hong Kong and joined Banque de l'Indochine 法國東方匯理銀行 (currently Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank) as comprador, equivalent of Chinese manager, after his graduation. Home Kwok Chan inherited 101 Robinson Road in Mid-Levels in 1936, part of his father's Kwok Compound IL 719 that consisted of 97, 99 & 101 Robinson Road, and raised his family there. Pre-war career In 1925 during the large-scale Canton–Hong Kong strike, he joined the Special Police Reserve to help maintain order. He joined the established Police Reserve afterward. In 1930 and 1933, he became the director of the Tung Wah Hospital and the Po Leung Kuk, then the two largest charities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Barton
Hugh David MacEwen Barton, CBE (17 January 1911 – 16 April 1989) was a British Hong Kong businessman who served as chairman and managing director of Jardine Matheson from 1953 to 1963. Biography Barton was born on 17 January 1911 in Ireland. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge University, Barton joined Jardine Matheson in 1933 as a tea taster and climbing the ranks to become Tai-pan in 1953 at just 42 years old. Barton was assigned to several key areas throughout Asia spending most of his time in Shanghai before returning to Hong Kong in 1949 when the group's assets fell under the new Communist regime. Barton served with the Irish Guards and fought in World War II. He retired from the military in 1944 as a Lt. Colonel and returned to work for Jardine Matheson after the war. A persistent and flamboyant character, he was appointed Taipan of Jardines, replacing Sir John Keswick. During his tenure, he oversaw the incredible growth of the company in Hong Kong and throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
