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John Charles Creasey Walden (
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: 華樂庭; 17 April 1925–2013) was a
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-born member of the
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in
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from 1951 until his retirement 1980. He graduated in 1950 from
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, with a second class degree in Geography. He also studied
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at the
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in
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and at the
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Political career

Walden joined the Colonial Administrative Service in 1950 and became a member of the Hong Kong government in 1951. He served in the
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, in the New Territories Administration as District Officer and Deputy District Commissioner for nine years, in the Urban Services Department, the Commerce and Industry Department, Housing Department, and in the Colonial Secretariat. During that time he was a member of the
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and Legislative Council, the
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, the
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among many other committees. Between 1976 and 1980, Walden was Director of Home Affairs with the goal of monitoring public opinion. He retired in 1980 to dedicate his life to studying public accountability in Hong Kong as a free-lance researcher. He was an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies of the University of Hong Kong. He returned to England in 2010, and died in 2013, aged 88, in
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Publications

* ''Excellency, Your Gap is Showing: Six Critiques on British Colonial Government in Hong Kong'' (1983) * ''Excellency, Your Gap is Growing: Six Talks on a Chinese Takeaway'' (1987)


See also

*
Resettlement Department The Resettlement Department () was a department of the Government of Hong Kong, responsible for constructing resettlement estates for homeless refugees, established in 1954. In 1973, the Resettlement Department and the Building Section of the U ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Walden, John 1925 births 2013 deaths British Hong Kong Members of the Urban Council of Hong Kong Alumni of Merton College, Oxford