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Ernest Charles Wong (; died in 2004) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and public figure active in the 1950s and 60s. He worked for the
Shriro Shriro Group is a private company headquartered in Hong Kong. It is an international marketing and distribution company with over 3,500 employees around the world. Shriro was founded in 1906 as a family business in Harbin, Northern China. The firs ...
as a manager of the watch department and co-founded the Federation of Hong Kong Watch Trades and Industries and later became its chairman in 1955. He was also director and later chairman of the
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in 1959. Under his spell, he oversaw the reconstruction of the
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, in which his was responsible for fundraising. He had also been vice president of the
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. In 1959, he was nominated by the Hong Kong Civic Association to run for the Urban Council election. He served for one term and stepped down in 1963. He was married and had two sons. The younger son of his married to second daughter of Kan Yuet-hing, brother of Sir
Kan Yuet-keung Sir Yuet-keung Kan (, 26 July 1913 – 14 September 2012) was a Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer who was successively appointed Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in the 1960s and 1970s. He ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wong, Ernest Charles 2004 deaths Members of the Urban Council of Hong Kong Hong Kong businesspeople Hong Kong Civic Association politicians Tung Wah Group of Hospitals