- http://www.debretts.com/people/people-today-0
- https://www.ukwhoswho.com/
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- David Cameron
- hkej 10apr15 a20 article on David Cameron
- has a chinese wife
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20151013/PDF/a24_screen.pdf 英國衛生 大臣、保守黨議員侯俊偉（Jeremy Hunt）日前呼籲英國人向中國 人學習，更加努力工作，而不是享受福利。達勒姆郡在野工黨女議 員海倫．古德曼（Helen Goodman）不滿侯俊偉的這番言論， 在推特上諷刺他娶了一位華裔妻子，引發種族歧視之嫌，以 及黨內外抨擊。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20151013/00180_016.html 現年四十八歲的侯俊偉，二○○九年與來自中國西安的露西婭‧郭（Lucia Guo）結婚，夫婦倆育有三名子女。露西婭婚後一直保持低調，反而侯俊偉則經常掛中國在嘴邊，他二○一三年曾呼籲英國家庭學習中國的敬老精神，別輕易把長者送進老人院。
- michael gove
- 英國環境、食物及鄉郊事務大臣高文浩，周一在保守黨活動上拋出「中國人愛吃豬耳論」，批評歐盟令中英兩國的肉類貿易受諸多掣肘，英國無法從巨大商機中獲豐厚利潤，揚言英國脫歐後可向中國出售更多豬耳。orientaldaily 7oct17
- Charles George Eustice (born 28 September 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician and former public relations executive, who was first elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Camborne and Redruth. In October 2013, as part of Prime Minister David Cameron's Cabinet reshuffle, Eustice was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Farming, Food and the Marine Environment. On 11 May 2015 he was promoted to Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.[5] He resigned from this position on 28 February 2019.Eustice was born on 28 September 1971 in Penzance. His parents were Adele (née Olds) and Paul Eustice. He grew up at Trevaskis Fruit Farm, near Hayle.[6][7][8] He was privately educated at Truro Cathedral School[9] then Truro School, followed by Cornwall College at Pool. He was a member of Cornwall Athletic Club based at Carn Brea, Camborne and ran for Cornwall's Cross-Country Team. After finishing his education, he worked in his family business for nine years.Eustice has been married to Katy Taylor-Richards since 20 May 2013; their ceremony took place in the Chapel of St. Mary Undercroft at the Palace of Westminster.
- dominic jermey of UKTI
- dominic jermey of UKTI
- http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/27741/Dominic-JERMEY
- http://www.cgcc.org.hk/b5/chamber/bulletin/files/AnnualArticle_1265787563.79135_Reception_of_Guests.pdf
- http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jan/31/prince-andrew-meetings-listed
- jo hawley
- Jo Hawley joined UKTI as Director for Hong Kong and Macau in March 2014. She has done a variety of roles for the British government ranging from Private Secretary to a Minister to running large government procurements. http://www.britchamgd.com/ArticleShow.aspx?AClassID=40&ArticleID=1225&LanguageID=1
- One of the board directors of best of british festival
- Barbara Janet Woodward
EU position holder- http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-08/07/content_18264354.htm
- http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/news/Pages/China.aspx
- http://www.sportsmanagement.co.uk/detail.cfm?pagetype=detail&subject=news&codeID=315683 Whittingdale was chair of the House of Commons culture committee for nearly 10 years until today's appointment. He has also previously served as shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport. The 55-year-old has previously made headlines for his views on the BBC, reportedly saying that the TV Licence fee was "worse than the poll tax” and is “unsustainable” in the long term. As part of the culture brief, he will now lead negotiations for the broadcaster’s charter renewal next year. Considered a Thatcherite, Whittingdale won praise for his role as culture committee chair in leading the 2009/2010 investigation into libel and privacy issues, including the News International phone hacking scandal. He has previously voted unsuccessfully against same-sex marriage and an equal pay transparency bill that makes employers with more than 250 staff publish information showing the difference between male and female pay.
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3241635/Yuk-Minister-s-idea-ear-throne-Culture-Secretary-hygiene-faux-pas-picks-ear-shaking-Duchess-Cambridge-s-hand.html
- nick timothy
- amber rudd
- Damian Howard Green PC MP (born 17 January 1956) is a British politician who has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Ashford since 1997 and First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office since 11 June 2017. Green was born in Barry, Wales, and studied PPE at Balliol College, Oxford. Before entering politics, Green worked as a journalist for the BBC, Channel 4 and The Times. Green entered Parliament in the 1997 election by winning the seat of Ashford. He served in several shadow ministerial positions, including Transport Secretary and Immigration Minister. Green came to national prominence in November 2008 after being arrested and having his parliamentary office raided by police, although no case was brought. He was the Minister of State for Police and Criminal Justice until 14 July 2014. He was appointed as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions by Prime Minister Theresa May in July 2016. Following the June 2017 general election, he was appointed First Secretary of State, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General.Damian Green was born in Barry, Wales. He grew up in Reading, Berkshire and was educated at Reading School and then at Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a BA degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1977. He was President of the Oxford Union in 1977 and was the vice-chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students (now known as Conservative Future) from 1980 until 1982.In 1978 he was appointed by BBC Radio as a financial journalist, before joining Channel 4 News as a business producer in 1982. He joined The Times for a year in 1984 as the business news editor before returning to television journalism and Channel 4 as the business editor in 1985. He became the City editor and also a television presenter on Channel 4's Business Daily television programme in 1987 until he left television to join Prime Minister John Major's Policy Unit in 1992. Green had acted as an occasional speechwriter for Major since 1988. He left 10 Downing Street in 1994 to run his own public affairs consultancy.
- An internationally recognised trade expert with over 25 years of experience, Crawford will lead trade policy and the development of trade negotiation capability at DIT, following a global recruitment campaign by the department. As Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser and Second Permanent Secretary, Crawford will be the UK government’s expert on trade negotiation and strategy, and the principal adviser to the International Trade Secretary on striking trade agreements and market access deals with the UK’s global trading partners. Crawford will serve as an ambassador for DIT, engaging with international partners and trade counterparts to develop key strategic relationships, and will personally oversee pivotal trade negotiations on behalf of ministers. Crawford will also act as the new head of profession for trade negotiators within the UK Civil Service, building, recruiting for and strengthening the department’s specialist trade and negotiation capability.Crawford Falconer brings over 25 years of public service in trade and foreign affairs to DIT. A New Zealand/UK dual-national, he was previously Professor of Global Value Chains and Trade at Lincoln University. This follows a long career at the heart of New Zealand’s Foreign Office, as Deputy Secretary (Vice Minister) for International Trade and Foreign Affairs. He has also served in the OECD, as New Zealand Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, and been a judge on over 15 WTO international trade disputes.
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- warren leigh, Assistant Desk Officer, South Asia Department
- In 2015, Timothy wrote an article to express his worry that People's Republic of China was effectively buying Britain's silence on allegations of Chinese human rights abuse and opposed China's involvement in sensitive sectors such as the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. He criticizes David Cameron and George Osborne of "selling our national security to China" without rational concerns and "the Government seems intent on ignoring the evidence and presumably the advice of the security and intelligence agencies." He warned that security experts are worried the Chinese could use their role in the programme (designing and constructing nuclear reactor) to build weaknesses into computer systems which allow them to shut down Britain's energy production at will and "...no amount of trade and investment should justify allowing a hostile state easy access to the country's critical national infrastructure." After Theresa May assumes Prime Minister, that project has been delayed for final approval. Timothy supported leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum.
- hansard record on hk - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130604/text/130604w0001.htm#13060486000785
- statement of change in immigration rules -https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/statement-of-changes-in-immigration-rules--5
- amber rudd
- https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/21/bahamas-leaks-reveal-amber-rudd-involvement-offshore-firms
- The Home Secretary has today re-admitted 13 previously suspended police forces to the best use of stop and search scheme. The scheme was launched in the summer of 2014 and requires member forces to demonstrate to the public that they are using the powers of stop and search fairly, effectively and in a way that builds community confidence. Requirements include recording the outcome of all stops (including whether there is a link with the initial reason for the stop), restricting the use of section 60 ‘no-suspicion’ powers, community scrutiny of complaints and offering the public the chance to observe stop and search in action. All 43 forces in England and Wales, and the British Transport Police, signed up to the scheme voluntarily. However, an inspection by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) in 2015 found 13 member forces were failing to meet 3 or more of the scheme’s requirements, and the-then Home Secretary suspended their membership with immediate effect.
- Amber Rudd has resigned as home secretary, saying she "inadvertently misled" MPs over targets for removing illegal immigrants. The Windrush scandal had heaped pressure on Ms Rudd, who faced renewed criticism after saying she did not know about Home Office removals targets. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43944988
- Damian Howard Green PC MP (born 17 January 1956) is a British politician who has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Ashford since 1997 and First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office since 11 June 2017. Green was born in Barry, Wales, and studied PPE at Balliol College, Oxford. Before entering politics, Green worked as a journalist for the BBC, Channel 4 and The Times. Green entered Parliament in the 1997 election by winning the seat of Ashford. He served in several shadow ministerial positions, including Transport Secretary and Immigration Minister. Green came to national prominence in November 2008 after being arrested and having his parliamentary office raided by police, although no case was brought. He was the Minister of State for Police and Criminal Justice until 14 July 2014. He was appointed as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions by Prime Minister Theresa May in July 2016. Following the June 2017 general election, he was appointed First Secretary of State, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General.Damian Green was born in Barry, Wales. He grew up in Reading, Berkshire and was educated at Reading School and then at Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a BA degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1977. He was President of the Oxford Union in 1977 and was the vice-chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students (now known as Conservative Future) from 1980 until 1982.In 1978 he was appointed by BBC Radio as a financial journalist, before joining Channel 4 News as a business producer in 1982. He joined The Times for a year in 1984 as the business news editor before returning to television journalism and Channel 4 as the business editor in 1985. He became the City editor and also a television presenter on Channel 4's Business Daily television programme in 1987 until he left television to join Prime Minister John Major's Policy Unit in 1992. Green had acted as an occasional speechwriter for Major since 1988. He left 10 Downing Street in 1994 to run his own public affairs consultancy.
- An internationally recognised trade expert with over 25 years of experience, Crawford will lead trade policy and the development of trade negotiation capability at DIT, following a global recruitment campaign by the department. As Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser and Second Permanent Secretary, Crawford will be the UK government’s expert on trade negotiation and strategy, and the principal adviser to the International Trade Secretary on striking trade agreements and market access deals with the UK’s global trading partners. Crawford will serve as an ambassador for DIT, engaging with international partners and trade counterparts to develop key strategic relationships, and will personally oversee pivotal trade negotiations on behalf of ministers. Crawford will also act as the new head of profession for trade negotiators within the UK Civil Service, building, recruiting for and strengthening the department’s specialist trade and negotiation capability.Crawford Falconer brings over 25 years of public service in trade and foreign affairs to DIT. A New Zealand/UK dual-national, he was previously Professor of Global Value Chains and Trade at Lincoln University. This follows a long career at the heart of New Zealand’s Foreign Office, as Deputy Secretary (Vice Minister) for International Trade and Foreign Affairs. He has also served in the OECD, as New Zealand Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, and been a judge on over 15 WTO international trade disputes.
- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/21/may-describes-sadness-over-sacking-of-close-friend-damian-green Theresa May has spoken of her deep personal sadness at being forced to sack her close friend Damian Green, but emphasised she expected the highest standards of ministers and that victims of sexual harassment should be able to feel safe speaking out. A Cabinet Office investigation found Green had breached the ministerial code in his outright denials when a Sunday newspaper reported that pornography had been found on his computer.
- 由中國國務院新聞辦公室監製、中國 外文局中國報道社解讀中國工作室製作的 紀錄片《之江故事》9日在北京舉行了全 球首發儀式。紀錄片《之江故事》記錄了 英國上議院議員麥克．貝茨和夫人李雪琳 ，用一個月的時間從杭州至溫州徒步旅行 的精彩故事，以豐富生動的徒步影像和詼 諧有趣的語言，傳遞出生機勃勃、活力洋 溢的新時代中國形象。 麥克．貝茨是中國人民的老朋友，夫 人李雪琳是原籍浙江杭州的愛國華僑，此 次徒步之行前，兩人已相繼在2015年、 2018年兩次來華徒步旅行，踐行為和平、 友誼、慈善徒步的初心，所籌善款捐贈給 中國多個社會公益和福利項目。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20191010/PDF/a16_screen.pdf
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- warren leigh, Assistant Desk Officer, South Asia Department
- https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20171111/20210889林會與英國外交部代表Warren Leigh會面，討論香港實施一國兩制下所面對的法治及人權等問題。
- At the end of the protest, Rogers and members of the Hong Kong Cultural & Political Forum handed the statement to Warren Leigh, a representative from the FCO. They also handed Leigh a list of 117 names of protesters currently jailed or under prosecution, as well as a petition to release Wong, Law, and Chow.https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/08/24/supporters-jailed-hong-kong-activists-stage-solidarity-protests-london-taiwan/
- Lord Hill
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Hill,_Baron_Hill_of_Oareford
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7b908fd8-b66c-11e4-a5f2-00144feab7de.html
- http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-hill-of-oareford/4144
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28310707 Lord Hill is a former public relations executive who worked for John Major during the 1990s, including as political secretary during the negotiations on the Maastricht Treaty. The nomination comes at a key time, with Mr Cameron seeking to renegotiate the UK's membership of the EU if he wins the next election and hold a referendum on the issue in 2017. The peer's nomination will be presented by the prime minister to the European Council at a summit of the EU's 28 national leaders in Brussels on Wednesday. If approved by the European Parliament, Lord Hill will serve a five-year term until 2019. The appointment was seen as an important indication of the prime minister's strategy in Europe, with Eurosceptics in the Conservative Party urging him to pick someone who would take a tough line in negotiations.
- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29518722 In an unusual step, MEPs had recalled him for a second confirmation hearing before re-affirming his appointment by a margin of 45-13 committee members. Lord Hill's background in public relations came under scrutiny during the questioning in Brussels. Some MEPs at the hearing also voiced concern about new EU efforts to boost the market in securitised debt. Securitisation - the packaging of debt in complex instruments - was at the root of the 2008 financial crisis, as serious risks were hidden from investors. Lord Hill said he favoured creating a bigger European market in securitised debt, provided it was based on "simplicity and transparency". There must also be "incentives to keep products safe" for investors, he said. The UK government is keen to have Lord Hill oversee EU financial services and capital markets, given the City of London's key role in the economy. But some doubt whether a Briton will be effective in promoting deeper eurozone integration, since the UK has not joined the euro. Lord Hill said he recognised the need to "build understanding between the euro 'ins' and 'outs'... especially in the banking union". Hungary's EU nominee, Tibor Navracsics, also met with MEPs' scepticism at his hearing on Monday. MEPs voted against him taking charge of education, culture and citizenship, though he could still get a different post in the Commission.
- http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/15/lord-hill-tories-europe-lobbyist-cameron The Cambridge-educated 53-year-old started his career in the Conservative research department, before serving as a special adviser to Ken Clarke when he was employment secretary, trade secretary and health secretary in the 1980s. He subsequently worked in lobbying and PR for Lowe Bell Communications, then returned to politics in the No 10 policy unit, followed by a stint as the political secretary to Major. Leaving politics once more, he was a senior consultant at Bell Pottinger, before founding the lobbying firm Quiller Consultants. However, he was not out of the game again for long, as Cameron elevated him to the peerage in 2010 and appointed him as a junior education minister. It is said that Hill tried unsuccessfully to resign from this post several times in 2012 without the prime minister paying attention, but the often-repeated story has never been confirmed by him. Last year, he became leader of theConservatives in the House of Lords. He has come under scrutiny over his business interests during his time in government, as he still has a substantial shareholding in Huntsworth, a listed public relations firm that bought out Quiller. The lobbying company's current clients include HSBC, the United Arab Emirates, British Land and Telefonica.
- Patrick Robin Gilbert Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent CBE (26 October 1901 – 2 January 1986), was a British peer and Conservative politician. Derwent was the younger son of Hon. Edward Henry Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, younger son of Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baron Derwent. His mother was Evelyn Mary Agar-Ellis. He was educated at Charterhouse School. He succeeded as fourth Baron Derwent on the death of his elder brother in 1949 and was able to take a seat in the House of Lords. In September 1962 Derwent was appointed Minister of State for Trade in the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan, and when Sir Alec Douglas-Home became Prime Minister in October 1963 he was promoted to Minister of State for Home Affairs. He retained this post until the Conservative loss in the 1964 general election. He never held ministerial office again but served for many years as a Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords. Lord Derwent married Marie-Louise Henriette Picard, daughter of Albert Picard of Paris, France, in 1929. He died in January 1986, aged 84, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Robin Evelyn Leo Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone.
- commented on li kashing's anti-communist stance appledaily 20oct18
- Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005) was a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston from 1983until his death, and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 until 2001, when he was replaced by Jack Straw. He studied at the University of Edinburgh before being elected as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Central in 1974. In Parliament he was known for his debating ability and rapidly rose through the political ranks and ultimately into the Cabinet. As Foreign Secretary, he oversaw British interventions in Kosovo and Sierra Leone.He resigned from his positions as Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons on 17 March 2003 in protest against the invasion of Iraq. At the time of his death, he was President of the Foreign Policy Centre and a Vice-President of the America All Party Parliamentary Group and the Global Security and Non-Proliferation All Party Parliamentary Group.
- tweeter em 29oct19 on cook mentioning uk and hk after 1997
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- Fiona McLeod Hill, formerly Cunningham, (born 1973) is a British political adviser. She served as Joint Downing Street Chief of Staff, alongside Nick Timothy, until her resignation following the 2017 general election. Fiona Hill was born in 1973 in Glasgow, where she also went to school. Before turning to politics, she worked as a journalist in both the press and broadcast sectors; her experience included working for The Scotsman and Sky News.Hill worked alongside Theresa May in the Home Office as a media adviser before resigning in 2014.[8][9][10] She left government after being forced to resign as May's special adviser in a 2014 dispute with Michael Gove over alleged extremism in schools, which culminated in her releasing a confidential letter on May's website, prompting then Prime Minister, David Cameron, to insist that May sack her. In 2015, Hill became a Director of Lexington Communications, a lobbying firm. On 14 July 2016, following the resolution of the 2016 Conservative leadership election, Hill was appointed joint chief of staff to Theresa May, the day after May became Prime Minister. Little of her own political stance is on public record. Unlike Timothy, with whom she shared the post of Chief of Staff for a year, she avoided writing opinion articles. James Kirkup, who worked with Hill as a journalist on The Scotsman, suggested "it's probably fair to say that Mrs May only talks about modern slavery [as a priority for government action] because of Ms Hill, and that's not the only issue of which that is true".
- nick Timothy was born in Birmingham, the son of a steel worker. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Aston, Birmingham,[7] and at the University of Sheffield, where he gained a First in Politics. He has cited as his inspiration in politics the Birmingham-born Liberal politician Joseph Chamberlain: he wrote a short biography of him for the Conservative History Group.[10] He has supported conservative philosophies benefiting poorer people and has suggested the Conservative party should focus on benefiting everyone. In 2006, Timothy returned to politics after his two years in the financial sector. He spent a year working for Theresa May, MP, before taking up the second appointment at the CRD. This term would become the first of three posts on the staff of Mrs. May. In 2010, the Rt.Hon. Theresa May was appointed the Secretary of State at the Home Office and looked for trusted and familiar faces to join her new staff. Timothy left the CRD to become a special adviser. He spent five years with the Home Secretary, before leaving, in 2015, to become a Director at the New Schools Network (NSN).
- Mark Robert Timothy Garnier (born 26 February 1963) is a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wyre Forest, elected at the 2010 general election.Garnier was born in London in 1963. He was educated at Charterhouse School. In 1981 he joined the London Stock Exchange as a junior clerk on the Gilts Markets. In 1986 he left to join a succession of investment banks, working in the Far East Equity markets. His occupation prior to becoming an MP was a Fund Manager.
- In Westminster, Garnier serves on the Treasury Select Committee and raised a debate in the House on Commons on 29 November 2010 (with several other Conservative MPs) on the regulation of independent financial advisors.[9] Garnier also serves on several All Party Parliamentary Groups and is Deputy Chairman of the APPG concerning Space. In a speech on 19 January 2012, Garnier criticised a Labour proposal to set a minimum age for owning a shotgun certificate, arguing that shooting was a major competitive sport and that based on Countryside Alliance statistics there was "no reason" to feel uncomfortable with under 10s having licensed access to shotguns. Garner was named by Conservative Home as one of a minority of loyal Conservative backbench MPs not to have voted against the government in any significant rebellions In September 2012.[12] Garner was subsequently one of 80 Conservative MPs to oppose the Coalition's Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. Garnier expressed disappointment at the decision of the regulator not to investigate incentives, pay and culture of the banks and their potential association with misconduct including the Libor scandal. In the lead-up to the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 Garnier supported the unsuccessful Remain campaign.[14] On 17 July 2016 he was appointed to the newly-created position of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Trade.
- Throughout his time in Parliament, Garnier (himself a smoker) has campaigned strongly to end tobacco smuggling.[16] However, in 2012 it was revealed he had accepted tickets for the Chelsea Flower Show from Japan Tobacco International (JTI), costing £1,100. Commenting on this he said "All of us who are MPs in Worcestershire have taken pay cuts of some form or other from coming out of the private sector... If we wanted to have our nose in the trough I could go back to being an investment banker. The reason I'm an MP is the complete opposite to having my nose in the trough. Two years of hundred hour weeks. To pick on this one thing is really irritating." In December 2014 he was criticised for comments he made during a speech at the Institute of Economic Affairs, arguing that his party shouldn't worry about attracting "dog-end voters" who live in "the outlying regions" of Britain. In October 2017 the Cabinet Office commenced an investigation into a potential breach of the ministerial code after The Mail on Sunday revealed he had sent an aide, whom he called "sugar tits", to buy two vibrators from a sex shop while he waited outside, allegedly one for his wife and one for a colleague who worked in his constituency office.
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41919286 Priti Patel met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior figures while on a private holiday with her family in August. She apologised on Monday, but was ordered to return from an official trip to Africa on Wednesday after further revelations came to light.She met the leader of one of Israel's main political parties and made visits to several organisations where official government business was reportedly discussed. This is unusual, because ministers are supposed to tell the government when they are conducting official business overseas.After the visit, Ms Patel suggested some of Britain's aid budget go to the Israeli army. She also asked her officials to see if Britain could support humanitarian operations conducted by the Israeli army in the occupied Golan Heights area. That request was labelled as "inappropriate" by government officials. The UK, like other members of the international community, has never recognised Israeli control of the Golan Heights, an area seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.Prior to resigning, Ms Patel apologised for not informing the Foreign Office of the meetings and for suggesting Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, knew about her plans in advance of the visit.
- on hk
- https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/priti-patel-at-war-with-dominic-raab-over-hong-kongs-fleeing-victims-grlx5vcnz
- “If China imposes this law, we will explore options to allow British Nationals Overseas to apply for leave to stay in the UK, including a path to citizenship,” Home Secretary Priti Patel said in a statement.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-britain-visas/britain-may-offer-path-to-citizenship-for-nearly-3-million-in-hong-kong-idUSKBN2352ZI
Hands was born in New York City, and completed his secondary education at Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham in 1984. He went on to attend Robinson College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a first in modern history in 1989. He joined the Conservative party as a student, served as the chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and was on the executive committee of the Cambridge University Students' Union.During his gap year he worked in a swimming pool in Berlin, and became interested in the Eastern Bloc, visiting Prague and other Eastern European cities on future holidays.[1] He worked on trading floors in the City of London and New York City until 1997. He has dual American/British nationality.In the 2016 reshuffle following the EU referendum and Theresa May's appointment as prime minister he was made Minister of State for International Trade at the newly formed Department for International Trade.Following the Grenfell Tower fire which killed at least 80 people, Hands was criticised for calling for the Notting Hill Carnival to be moved. Local residents, event organisers and the Labour MP for Kensington all rejected his suggestion, with some accusing him of using the disaster as an "excuse" to move the carnival, a long-held ambition of some Notting Hill residents. Justice4Grenfell coordinator Yvette Williams stated that "The Carnival route does not go near Grenfell and I’m failing to find the link between the Grenfell Tower fire and Carnival". Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London dismissed Hands' proposal.
- Gavin Alexander Williamson CBE (born 25 June 1976) is a British Conservative politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 2017 to 2019, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Staffordshiresince 2010.Williamson is originally from Scarborough, North Yorkshire. His parents, Ray, a local government worker, and Beverly, a job centre worker,[5][6] were both Labour voters. Williamson had become managing director of Aynsley China, a Staffordshire-based pottery firm by 2005. It sold ceramic tableware and he later became co-owner. In April 2005, Williamson was quoted in reports on the consumer rush to buy items with the wrong wedding date on for Charles and Camilla's wedding. He told The Telegraph, "We've literally had fights in our own retail shops. On the first day after the announcement I went into our factory shop in Stoke-on-Trent and we had people fighting over the last plate that we had on the shop floor. I think everybody has decided that this is going to be their pension."
- https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3008491/theresa-may-sacks-british-defence-minister-gavin-williamson-over British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday sacked Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson following a probe into the leak of news that Britain had conditionally allowed China’s Huawei to develop the UK 5G network.
Overseas
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21611102-some-5m-britons-live-abroad-country-could-do-far-more-exploit-its-high-flying-expats-and
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- Jack Straw
- http://www.leedsuniversityunion.org.uk/ents/jackstraw/ Jack Straw, President of the Union from 1968-69, will be reminiscing about his experiences as an Officer and his time at Leeds, as well as answering any questions from guests. As part of the event, we will launch the Union's exciting plans for our 75th birthday in 2014 which will be a great opportunity to catch up with old friends or reunite with your officer team over drinks into the evening.
- http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2001/4055.htm
QUESTION: I have a question for both Mr. Powell and for Mr. Straw. A few hours ago, the Hong Kong legislature voted to give China the right to fire the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. You met today with Mr. Tung Chee-Hwa, and I just wondered whether you believe that this in any way violates the agreement of the basic law that granted autonomy for 50 years to Hong Kong if it was absorbed by China?
SECRETARY STRAW: Well, I have not been briefed on this. I am happy to get you a response later on, but I doubt very much whether it would violate the basic law. We will have a look at it and let you have a response.
SECRETARY POWELL: I haven't been briefed either. I met with Mr. Tung earlier this morning, and the issue did not come up.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, in your meeting with Mr. Tung, what issues did you raise? Did you raise the issue of the Falun Gong and other human rights issues in Hong Kong? And how would you categorize Mr. Tung's response?
- http://www.londonspeakerbureau.com/tr/news/story/rt_hon_jack_straws_new_book__aspects_of_law_reform
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20151223/00180_011.html 英國傳媒今年二月曾放蛇，假扮來自香港的公關公司人員，揭露英國執政保守黨前外相聶偉敬及工黨前外相施仲宏，稱可運用影響力助商界疏通，圖為自身牟取利益。國會下議院標準事務委員會曾指二人並無違規，但英國通訊辦公室周一發表報告，認為作出該次放蛇報道的確揭露了他們的企圖。
- Justine Greening (born 30 April 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as Secretary of State for Education since 2016 and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney since 2005. Greening was born in Rotherham, where she attended Oakwood Comprehensive School.[3] She studied Business Economics and Accounting at the University of Southampton, graduating with a first class honours degree in 1990.[4] She obtained an Executive MBA from the London Business School in 2000.[5] Before entering parliament, she trained and qualified[6] as an accountant, before working as an accountant/finance manager for, amongst others, PricewaterhouseCoopers, GlaxoSmithKline and Centrica.In March 2010 she was put in charge of co-ordinating the Conservative campaign for the 2010 general election in London.[8] She held the post of Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 13 May 2010 to 14 October 2011.In October 2011 she was appointed Secretary of State for Transport and was sworn of the Privy Council. Greening represents the London constituency of Putney and had always campaigned against a third runway at Heathrow Airport. In the run up to the 2012 Cabinet reshuffle Greening said it would be difficult to serve in a Cabinet which was in favour of a third runway. In her role as Secretary of State for Transport Greening oversaw the award of new rail franchises, this included the award of the Intercity West Coast franchise to First Group in 2012. In October 2012 Ms Greening announced the government was cancelling the franchise competition for the InterCity West Coast franchise after discovering significant technical flaws in the way the franchise process was conducted, reversing the decision to award it to FirstGroup.[11] A report by the Transport Select Committee found fault with Ms Greening and revealed the cost to the taxpayer of the flawed franchise process was at least £40 million.[12] Justine Greening faced calls to resign from the cabinet (having by then been moved to International Development Secretary in a cabinet reshuffle) but remained as a cabinet minister claiming she 'acted properly at all times.'On 4 September 2012 she was replaced by Patrick McLoughlin at the Department for Transport and became Secretary of State for International Development.[2] The move was attacked by Boris Johnson.[14] As Secretary of State for International Development, Greening became a member of the National Security Council.Greening was appointed Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities by Theresa May on 14 July 2016, replacing Nicky Morgan in both roles. Since taking these posts, she has announced the creation of social mobility 'opportunity areas' and the approval of additional free schools.[15][16] She has also spoken in favour of creating new grammar schools and retaining university tuition fees.
- graham brady
- graham brady
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a3cb59c2-faf7-11e4-84f3-00144feab7de.html Graham Brady is the most important man in the new parliament of whom you might never have heard. The fact that David Cameron invited him into Downing Street for talks last Friday — just one hour after the new prime minister presented himself to the Queen — is an indication of his influence. Mr Brady is chairman of the Conservative party backbench 1922 committee and with a Commons majority of only 12, Mr Cameron knows how important it is to keep Mr Brady and his troops on the Tory benches sweet. The start was positive: after Mr Brady’s Number 10 meeting, Mr Cameron later addressed a packed gathering of “the ‘22”, where he was greeted by a thunderous banging of desks. But in an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Brady suggests relations may not always be so cordial: Europe, English devolution and Mr Cameron’s plan to shrink the House of Commons from 650 to 600 MPs could all be areas of disagreement. The 47-year-old Salford-born grammar schoolboy admits that relations between PM and party were not easy in the last parliament. Conservative MPs were invited to Downing Street drinks and barbecues but felt marginalised as Mr Cameron and Nick Clegg, his Liberal Democrat coalition partner, took decisions behind closed doors.
- head of accpg delegation to hk in jan 2016 and spoke on lee bo incident
- http://www.britishchamber.cn/content/appcg-delegates
- http://www.libdemvoice.org/author/kishwer-falkner "..... Then came our opposition to the UK’s ban in letting in Hong Kong residents before the handover to China...."
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC, SL (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793) was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. Born to Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth, Scotland, before moving to London at the age of 13 to take up a place at Westminster School. He was accepted into Christ Church, Oxford, in May 1723, and graduated four years later. Returning to London from Oxford, he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn on 23 November 1730, and quickly gained a reputation as an excellent barrister. He became involved in politics in 1742, beginning with his election as a Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge, and appointment as Solicitor General. In the absence of a strong Attorney General, he became the main spokesman for the government in the House of Commons, and was noted for his "great powers of eloquence" and described as "beyond comparison the best speaker" in the House of Commons.[1] With the promotion of Sir Dudley Ryder to Lord Chief Justice in 1754, he became Attorney General, and when Ryder unexpectedly died several months later, he took his place as Chief Justice. The most powerful British jurist of the century, his decisions reflected the Age of Enlightenment and moved England on the path to abolishing slavery and the slave trade. He advanced commercial law in ways that helped establish the nation as the world leader in industry, finance and trade. He modernised both English law and the English courts system; he sped up the system for submitting motions and reformed the way judgments were given to reduce time and expense for the parties. For his work in Carter v Boehm and Pillans v Van Mierop, he has been called the founder of English commercial law. He is perhaps best known for his judgment in Somersett's Case (1772), where he held that slavery had no basis in common law and had never been established by positive law (legislation) in England, and therefore was not binding law (although this did not end slave trafficking altogether).
- Lord Neuberger
- http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/lord-neuberger-giving-democracy-a-hammering/15650#.U_1Pa9KSySo
- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-26/h-k-judicial-independence-not-undermined-neuberger-says.html
Tory
- https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/pm-david-cameron-appointed-uk-parliamentarian-mark-garnier-mp-as-trade-envoy-to-thailand At their meeting in Bangkok on 2 February, the Head of the UK Diplomatic Service, Sir Simon McDonald, was pleased to inform Thai Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-o-cha that British Prime Minister David Cameron had appointed UK parliamentarian, Mark Garnier MP, as trade envoy to Thailand. This underlined the importance the UK attached to its trade and investment partnership with Thailand.
Labour Party
- Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell, CBE, PC (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a politician and Leader of the British Labour Party. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant, he was elected to Parliament in 1945 and held office in Clement Attlee's governments, notably as Minister of Fuel and Power after the bitter winter of 1946-7, and eventually joining the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Facing the need to increase military spending in 1951 he imposed National Health Service charges on false teeth and spectacles, prompting the leading left-winger Aneurin Bevan to resign from the Cabinet. The perceived similarity in his outlook to that of his Conservative Party counterpart Rab Butler was dubbed "Butskellism", initially a satirical term, after an elision of their names, and was one aspect of the Post-war consensus through which the major parties largely agreed on the main points of domestic and foreign policy until the 1970s.[1][2] With Labour in opposition from 1951, Gaitskell won bitter leadership battles with Bevan and his supporters to become the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in 1955. He opposed British military action at Suez in 1956, but against a backdrop of a booming economy led the Labour Party to another election defeat in 1959. In the late 1950s, in the teeth of opposition from the major trade unions, he attempted in vain to remove Clause IV of the Labour Party Constitution, which committed Labour to nationalisation of all the means of production. He did not reject public ownership altogether, but also emphasised the ethical goals of liberty, social welfare and above all equality, and argued that they could be achieved by fiscal and social policies within a mixed economy. His revisionist views on the right of Labour were sometimes called Gaitskellism. Despite this setback, Gaitskell reversed an attempt to adopt unilateral nuclear disarmament as Labour Party policy, and opposed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's attempt to lead Britain into the European Common Market. He was loved and hated for his confrontational leadership and brutal frankness. He died suddenly in 1963, when he appeared to be on the verge of leading Labour back to power and becoming Prime Minister.
- re appledaily 28mar17 chip tso article
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-26573929 The 88-year-old former Labour MP had been seriously ill. Mr Benn became an MP in November 1950 and served in the cabinet under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. A major figure on the left of the party, he narrowly missed out on the deputy leadership in 1981 and was a popular public speaker, anti-war campaigner and political diarist. Aged just 25 when he first entered Parliament, Mr Benn subsequently renounced his peerage, which he inherited on his father's death, to remain in the House of Commons. He served as an MP for more than 50 years, becoming secretary of state for industry in 1974 under Harold Wilson and going on to become secretary of state for energy, keeping his post when James Callaghan became PM in 1976. But after the Labour government was ousted in 1979, he staged a bitterly divisive battle as the champion of the left with Denis Healey for the deputy leadership of the party. He retired from Parliament in 2001, famously saying he wanted to "spend more time on politics".
- Jeremy Corbyn
- http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/15/daily-telegraph-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn The Daily Telegraph has encouraged readers to register as Labour supporters and vote for the leftwing Jeremy Corbyn in a bid to “destroy” the party. The piece by the Telegraph comment desk calls on readers to pay £3 and vote to ensure Corbyn becomes the next Labour leader. It was published online alongside a report on a poll that suggests the leftwinger is ahead in the race to succeed Ed Miliband. Readers are provided with a step-by-step guide on how to sign up as a registered supporter and vote for Corbyn, who is 15 points ahead, according to private polling seen by the New Statesman. “Sign up today to make sure the bearded socialist voter-repellent becomes the next Labour leader - and dooms the party forever,” the Telegraph article reads. “A lot of people, both in the Labour party and outside it, think that would be dreadful for Labour, the sort of political disaster the party last suffered in 1983 when Michael Foot’s leftwing views saw the party lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives.
- Sadiq Aman Khan (Urdu: صادق امان خان; born 8 October 1970) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) forTooting since 2005, he is a member of theLabour Party and is standing as the party's candidate to be Mayor of London in the 2016 mayoral election. Born in London to a working-class British Pakistani family, Khan attained a degree in Law at the University of North London. He subsequently began work as a solicitorspecialising in human rights. Khan was a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006. In 2008 he was appointed Minister of State for Communities by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, becoming the second British Pakistani to serve in government. Khan later served asMinister of State for Transport. He joined theShadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in 2010.[4] On 16 January 2013 he was also appointed Shadow Minister for London;[5] on 11 May 2015 he resigned from the shadow cabinet. On 11 September 2015, Khan was selected as the Labour candidate to run for the London mayoralty.
- Following Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Cabinet reshuffle of 3 October 2008, Khan was appointed Minister of State for Communities, replacing Parmjit Dhanda, and becoming the second Muslim to serve in the UK Government. Before the House of Commons in January 2009, Khan criticised the Pope for the rehabilitation ofBishop Richard Williamson following his remarks aboutthe Holocaust, a move he described as "highly unsavoury" and of "great concern".[37] In 2009, he became the first Muslim to attend Cabinet upon his appointment as Minister of State for Transport. In what was believed to be a first for an MP, Khan used his Twitteraccount to self-announce his promotion as Transport Secretary. In March 2010, Khan publicly stated that for a second successive year he would not be taking a pay rise as an MP or Minister, declaring "At a time when many people in Tooting and throughout the country are having to accept pay freezes I don't think it's appropriate for MPs to accept a pay rise." For his first fifteen months' service in HM Government, he chose not to draw a ministerial incremental salary, having made sufficient money as a lawyer.
- On 3 February 2008, The Sunday Times claimed that a conversation between Khan and prisoner Babar Ahmad – a friend and constituent – at Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes had been bugged by the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch.[27] An inquiry was launched byJustice Secretary Jack Straw.[27] There was some concern that the bugging contravened theWilson Doctrine that police should not bug MPs. The report concluded that the doctrine did not apply because it was ordered by a police officer and not an MP.[28] In 2010, Khan was re-elected as the MP for Tooting despite a swing against his party of 3.6% and a halving of his previous majority. In the subsequent Labour leadership election Khan was an early backer of Ed Miliband, becoming his campaign manager.[29] Khan masterminded Miliband's shock win over his elder brother David, and was tipped as a future rising star of the Labour Party, jumping 82 places in one year to 16th in The Daily Telegraph's'top 100 most influential left-wingers' poll'. In April 2010 it was revealed that Khan had repaid wrongly-claimed expenses on two occasions, when literature was sent to his constituents. The first incident concerned letters sent out before the 2010 General Election which were ruled to have the "unintentional effect of promoting his return to office", the second a £2,550 repayment for Christmas, Eid, and birthday cards for constituents, dating back to 2006.[30] Under House of Commons rules, pre-paid envelopes and official stationery can only be used for official parliamentary business. Khan's claim for the greetings cards was initially rejected, but he presented a new invoice no longer identifying the nature of the claim, and this was accepted. Khan attributed the improper claim for the cards to "inexperience" and human error and apologised for breaking the expenses rules.
- In 2010, Khan was re-elected as the MP for Tooting despite a swing against his party of 3.6% and a halving of his previous majority. In the subsequent Labour leadership election Khan was an early backer of Ed Miliband, becoming his campaign manager.[29] Khan masterminded Miliband's shock win over his elder brother David, and was tipped as a future rising star of the Labour Party, jumping 82 places in one year to 16th in The Daily Telegraph's'top 100 most influential left-wingers' poll'.
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3241649/Labour-s-Mayor-savages-Corbyn-Party-star-Khan-damns-leader-anti-Semitism.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 New Labour Party leaders Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell were last night sensationally accused of risking inciting terrorist and anti-Semitic attacks in London. The claim was made by the Labour candidate for London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, in a devastating assault on Corbyn and the man he has made Shadow Chancellor. Khan, who is Muslim, suggested that Corbyn's refusal to sing the National Anthem showed he was unfit to be Prime Minister.
- http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/14186143.Labour_Mayoral_candidate_Sadiq_Khan_calls_for__first_dibs__for_Londoners_on_new_homes/ Labour’s Mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan, has called for Londoners to get "first dibs" on new homes built in the capital, rather than overseas investors, writes Grainne Cuffe. Labour conducted an investigation that found top-three property agent Jones Lang Lesalle (JLL) held no fewer than 40 events in Hong Kong promoting London property development in 2015, including seven events marketing homes in Wandsworth. Mr Khan, MP for Tooting, said: "This investigation reveals the shocking scale of London homes being sold to overseas investors, rather than to the Londoners who desperately need them. "I am fortunate to live near my family around the corner from the council estate where we grew up. "But it is much harder for young Londoners today." The Mayoral hopeful has laid an amendment to the Government’s Housing Bill, which will ensure a percentage of all homes can be allocated to local people. He said: "It will allow more Londoners to get their foot on the property ladder- helping the next generation." A spokesman from JLL said: "We (JLL) are fully supportive of the Mayoral Concordat - new homes for Londoners signed by the all the major London House builders which ensures an opportunity for London purchasers to buy before, or at least at the same time as international buyers.
- http://www.camdennewjournal.com/khanhomes LABOUR mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has warned developers they will no longer be able to “run to the Mayor” to shirk affordable housing commitments if he is elected to City Hall. In an interview with the New Journal on Tuesday, Mr Khan promised to take a tougher stance with developers. He would “call in” major housing schemes that fall short of his target of 50 per cent affordable homes for new builds in London. “Before a developer gets permission to build new homes, the local authority will know the London mayor will call it in unless half are affordable,” he said. “This will mean developers can make a profit, because I’m not against profit, but councils will know there is a certainty with which they can negotiate.” Using the example of the Royal Mail redevelopment at Mount Pleasant, where local authorities fought for 50 per cent affordable housing but were overruled by London Mayor Boris Johnson, Mr Khan said Londoners need a mayor “on their side”. Mr Khan said he would ensure developers’ negotiations were “transparent” by setting up a “specialist team” in City Hall to publish viability reports – secret documents that contain calculations used to justify levels of affordable housing. The government’s housing Bill, currently going through Parliament, proposes to extend the right-to-buy policy to housing associations and set the cap for affordable homes at £450,000 within London. Prime Minister David Cameron has also announced plans to spend £140m regenerating the country’s worst “sink estates”. But after a tour of Camden Council’s redevelopment of the Maiden Lane estate, in York Way, on Tuesday, Mr Khan said: “The idea of the precious few affordable homes that we have in London being sold off and the idea that with the sum of money the government is offering you can lock down council estates and rebuild them with the same tenants living there. It’s just not possible.” Mr Khan suggested London should build affordable homes on the vast amount of land owned by Transport for London, taking a lead from Hong Kong, which “makes more money from its property portfolio than fares”. When asked why the transport authority’s current forays into property development had delivered mostly luxury accommodation, Mr Khan said: “That’s easy. You've got a part-time mayor who is lazy and doesn’t understand the housing crisis. It is basically a fire sale. What TfL have done under the political leadership of Boris Johnson is try and sell off this land, and luxury flats are built.”
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2112684/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-says-britain-should-not-host London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Sunday that it would be wrong for Britain to host US President Donald Trump on a state visit, describing some of the US leader’s views on Islam as “ignorant”, and likening his rhetoric to that of the Islamic State group.
- In October 2009 The Sunday Times reported that Lord Paul had been unable satisfactorily to explain claiming expenses of £38,000 for the period January 2005 to July 2006. Lord Paul immediately requested the Clerk of the Parliaments to investigate his expenses at the same time repaying, £41,982 instead of £26,988 – £15,000, more than the House of Lords would have requested at the conclusion of their investigation. The Metropolitan Police opened an investigation concerning these expense claims,[39] but by the end of February 2010 concluded there was no case. Lord Paul appeared before various committees for Lord's Conduct with ultimately the Privileges Committee concluding that Lord Paul had not acted dishonestly or in bad faith. They did determine however that he had been negligent and acted in ignorance and that his actions did render him liable to sanction by the House."[40] Lord Paul's suspension was for four months. Lord Paul completely disagreed with their finding, calling it "unreasonable." Paul tendered his resignation as Deputy Speaker to the Lord Speaker on 1 November 2010. His letter, printed in The House Magazine a week later, expressed his reservations about the process, calling it "a sad saga for parliamentary democracy – an unfortunate series of events having evidently been inspired by the electoral politics of the media". He has spoken on this topic many times since the expenses scandal initially made news,[41] and maintains that wrongdoing had occurred in his case
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170403/00180_022.html《星期日泰晤士報》指，貴族議員只要在議會報到，縱使在會上一言不發，仍可索取一日三百英鎊（約二千九百港元）的津貼，涉嫌尸位素餐的議員多達八百人。其中，被指是富豪議員的保羅（Swraj Paul），從未在議會發表意見，甚至缺席了二○一五年的所有會議，卻照收到約四萬英鎊的薪金。
- met hocc ngashan em 11oct19
Libdem
- Ed Davey
- Sir Edward Jonathan Davey FRSA (born 25 December 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) forKingston and Surbiton from 1997 to 2015. He served in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2015, having previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, with responsibility for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs, since 2010.
- Lindsay Patricia Northover, Baroness Northover, (born 21 August 1954; née Granshaw) is a British academic, Liberal Democrat politician, member of the House of Lords, and former junior government minister.The daughter of Charles and Patricia Granshaw, Northover was born on 21 August 1954. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School, an independent school for girls in Brighton. She went on to study at St Anne's College, Oxford, where in 1976 she graduated Bachelor of Arts in modern history (later promoted to Master of Arts). She received an English-Speaking Union Scholarship and a Mrs Giles Whiting Fellowship to study at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania, receiving an examined Master of Arts degree in 1978 and graduating as a Doctor of Philosophy in the history and philosophy of science in 1981.Northover was a Member of Council of the Overseas Development Institute, 2005–2010; Trustee of the Tropical Health and Education Trust, 2007–10; Vice-Chair of the British Council Associate Parliamentary Group, 2007–10; Vice-Chair of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, 2008–10; Trustee of the Liberal Democrats, 2009–11; Trustee of UNICEF UK, 2009–10; Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS; Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Aid, Debt and Trade; and Secretary of the All Party Group on Overseas Development.[4] She was promoted to become Under Secretary of State in the Department for International Development in November 2014.
- join herbert smith freehills as energy consultant legal week mail 16sep15
- British Baroness Northover has called Hong Kong's use of emergency powers a "breach" of the Joint Declaration which gave rise to the city's autonomy.https://www.facebook.com/hongkongfp/videos/british-baroness-northover-has-called-hong-kongs-use-of-emergency-powers-a-breac/1654221618045218/
Socdem
- David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, CH, PC, FRCP (born 2 July 1938) is a Britishpolitician and physician.Owen served as British Foreign Secretaryfrom 1977 to 1979, at the age of 38 the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post. In 1981, Owen was one of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Owen led the SDP from 1983 to 1987, and the continuing SDP from 1988 to 1990. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher until March 2014, and now sits as an "independent social democrat". The Liberal Party and SDP merged to form the Social and Liberal Democrats (SLD) in March 1988, renamed the Liberal Democrats in October 1989. At the request of two of the remaining SDP MPs, John Cartwright and Rosie Barnes, Owen continued to lead a much smaller continuing SDP, the SDPtick Party, with three MPs in total.
- He declared, on the occasion of a Cairo seminar, that Egypt had been defeated in the 1973 War
- Sir Jeremy John Heywood KCB CVO (born 31 December 1961) is a retired senior British civil servant. He served as Cabinet Secretary from 1 January 2012, and Head of the Home Civil Service from September 2014,[1] until stepping down in October 2018. He has previously served twice as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, as well as the Downing Street Chief of Staff and the first and only Downing Street Permanent Secretary.[2][3] After he was diagnosed with cancer, he took a leave of absence from June 2018, and retired on health grounds on 24 October 2018.Jeremy Heywood was born in Glossop, Derbyshire to Peter Heywood, an English teacher at independent Quaker school Bootham and Brenda Heywood, who was one of the first women in Britain to become a professional archaeologist. He was educated at Bootham,[8] York, with a Quaker background and ethos, before taking a BA in History and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. He also studied for a semester at Harvard Business School.
Well-known businessmen
- David Eldon
- wrote an article mentioning that chinese government will ask cy to step down and carrie lam will take his position hkej 13oct14 a10, HSBC said that Eldon's article is only his personal opinion hkej 14oct14 a8, http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1616464/hsbc-distances-itself-david-eldons-blog
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20160923/00202_018.html 滙豐前大班艾爾敦（David Eldon）曾經喺絲絲面前大讚佢兩個仔多才多藝，尋日絲絲終於喺滙豐總行有幸見到佢大仔艾俊安（Andrew Eldon）。冇錯，佢個仔跟從爸爸，加入咗獅子行！
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/45992860-5cb4-11e5-a28b-50226830d644.html feature article
- grosvenor, duke of westminster
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160811/00180_034.html 英國排第三的富翁、第六代威斯敏斯特公爵格羅夫納，當地時間周二於蘭開夏郡疑因心臟病發病逝，終年六十四歲。格羅夫納的廿五歲兒子休．格羅夫納將會繼承逾九十億英鎊（約九百一十億港元）遺產，並成為新公爵。
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/09/24/a23-0924.pdf 格羅夫納家族的故事，比起電視連續劇《唐頓莊 園》更加精彩。故事從三百四十年前說起，格羅夫納 祖先立下戰功，獲得皇室賜予公爵頭銜，封地於柴郡 (Cheshire)。有了「名」，「利」隨之而來。一六七七 年公爵迎娶一位十二歲的富家女，她嫁妝豐厚，帶來 五百畝「濕潤的農田」。這一大片土地，即位於今日 的倫敦市中心地王 ——圍繞白金漢宮的梅費爾 (Mayfair)和貝爾格拉維亞（Belgravia），美國駐英大 使館所在地)。這是全球最昂貴的地王之一。
HSBC
- HSBC says veteran stock strategist Garry Evans to leave http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/24/moves-hsbc-evans-idUSL3N0SJ3ZQ20141024, singtao 25oct14 a18
- Michael Graham Ruddock Sandberg, Baron Sandberg, CBE (Chinese: 沈弼, born 31 May 1927) was executive chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from 1977 to 1986.
- Involved in sale of hutchison to li ka shing, 佳寧case
- a lib dem, buthis profile is a deadlink in the lib dem site
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/financeestate/art/20170711/20085751
英國《每日電訊報》上周五（7日）刊出訃聞，形容沈弼是「一位擅長做大買賣的交易操盤人，多於一位傳統銀行家（dealmaker than a traditional banker）。」
消 息說，他的喪禮將於7月17日在英國漢普郡的教堂，以私人及家庭追悼會形式舉行，據悉滙控主席范智廉將代表集團出席；外界亦估計，接任沈弼的前滙控主席浦 偉士，屆時也可能現身悼念老朋友兼前上司。滙豐中人形容，沈弼是繼神級大班浦偉士之後，在集團內享有高聲望的前任主席。要回顧沈弼歷史，不得不提 這位英格蘭出生的銀行家，與李嘉誠及包玉剛等第一代本地華商領袖的淵源。上世紀70年代中期，由膠花廠起家的李嘉誠，早已趁着地價便宜乘時而起，轉向地產 王國拓展，並成為當時其中一個最具實力的年輕華資商人，與當時仍然主導香港經濟命脈的英資財團與怡和系抗衡。在昔日殖民管治時代，素有「滙豐及馬會主席才是香港揸fit人」的民間說法，精明的沈弼，1977年從前任大班沙雅手中接掌滙豐，一改保守銀行家作風，主動出擊，覷準華資商人冒起的大勢，積極扶植並促成兩單重要併購交易。1978 年，李嘉誠在市場上逐步購入當時仍由英資怡和控制的九倉股份，持股量悄悄增至接近20%，成為單一最大股東，與李氏早有交情的沈弼，建議李氏放棄收購，並 轉讓股份予已持有一定九倉股權的包玉剛，最終促成了船王入主九倉大業。沈弼亦深諳投桃報李，將當年滙豐持有並正在物色買家接手的和記黃埔股權（22.4%），以低於賬面值的每股作價7.1元，在沒有公開招標情況下轉售予長 實，滙豐並提供貸款融資助李嘉誠完成交易，結果李氏擊敗對手怡和，成為首名控制和記黃埔這家英資財團的華人。英國《每日電訊報》在訃聞中，提及往事時，說 當年和黃以「偷取」來形容這宗世紀交易。
- ft 10aug19 "a zen master with the axe" mentioned he admired fushan yuan, a 10th century zen master
Jardine
- (Charles Guy) Rodney Leach, Baron Leach of Fairford (1 June 1934 – 12 June 2016) was a British businessman and a Conservative member of the House of Lords.Leach was Deputy Chairman of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Plc,[2] a director of Rothschild Continuation AG and of various listed Jardine Matheson Group companies. He was created a life peer on 6 June 2006 taking the title Baron Leach of Fairford, of Fairford in the County of Gloucestershire.[3] Leach served as chairman of Open Europe,[4] an influential think-tank [5][6] based in London and Brussels and with a partner organisation in Berlin.[7]calling for fundamental reform of the European Union.[8] He spoke in the House of Lords against what he called 'alarmism' over climate change.[9] Leach was the chairman of the No2AV campaign, which opposed a change in the British electoral system away from first-past-the-post voting during the United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum, 2011.
Huawei
- lord browne madingley
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browne,_Baron_Browne_of_Madingley
- http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-browne-of-madingley/2172 (among others, remunerated employment as Adviser, PCCW Limited (property and infrastructure)
- Alexander Duncan Campbell Peterson OBE (13 September 1908 – 17 October 1988) was a British teacher and headmaster, greatly responsible for the birth of the International Baccalaureate educational system. He was instrumental in the formation of the International Baccalaureate Organisation in 1968, and served as the organisation's first director-general until 1977. He was also the first honorary member of the organisation's Council of Foundation from 1983 until his death in 1988.
- Alexander Duncan Campbell Peterson OBE (13 September 1908 – 17 October 1988) was a British teacher and headmaster, greatly responsible for the birth of the International Baccalaureate educational system. He was instrumental in the formation of the International Baccalaureate Organisation in 1968, and served as the organisation's first director-general until 1977. He was also the first honorary member of the organisation's Council of Foundation from 1983 until his death in 1988. In 1962, Peterson's connections with the military (he had served in Lord Mountbatten of Burma's staff) and his acquaintance with Kurt Hahn earned him a job planning an academic curriculum for the future students of the newly founded Atlantic College in Wales. In 1966, he was named head of theInternational Schools Examination Syndicate, which was reorganized in 1968 as the International Baccalaureate Organisation. During the first five years of his time as director-general of the IBO, Peterson continued to live and work in Oxford, despite the fact that the IBO offices were located in Geneva, Switzerland. He remained in his job at Oxford University, retaining the directorial job with the IBO as a part-time work. In 1973, he retired from his Oxford post and took up a part-time teaching job at the Hammersmith and West London College of Further Education, teaching Theory of Knowledge and managing his IBO directorate from London. Peterson retired in 1977, and he was made an honorary member of the IBO's Council of Foundation in 1983. In 1987, he published the book Schools Across Frontiers: The Story of the International Baccalaureate and the United World Colleges, a historical account on the development of the IB programmes and the United World Colleges closely linked to them. Peterson died in 1988. The IBO Cardiff Headquarters building, Peterson House, is named after him.
Art, history related
- Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark OMCH KCB FBA (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians and aesthetes of his generation, writing a series of books that appealed to a wide public, while remaining a serious scholar. In 1969, he achieved international fame as the writer, producer and presenter of the BBC Television series Civilisation, which pioneered television documentaryseries combining expert personalized narration with lavish photography on location.
literature
- Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945). Blair's maternal grandmother lived at Moulmein, so he chose a posting in Burma. In October 1922 he sailed on board SS Herefordshire via the Suez Canal and Ceylon to join the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. A month later, he arrived at Rangoon and travelled to the police training school in Mandalay. After a short posting at Maymyo, Burma's principal hill station, he was posted to the frontier outpost of Myaungmya in the Irrawaddy Delta at the beginning of 1924.
- http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2053875/myanmar-towns-secret-setting-george-orwells-anti-colonial
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/01/02/b05-0102.pdf在《在緬甸 尋找喬治．奧威爾》中，拉金還特別講 述了一個緬甸版「龍的傳說」：有一條 惡龍，每年要求村莊獻祭一個童女，每 年這個村莊都會有一名少年英雄翻山越 嶺，去與龍搏鬥，但無人生還。又一名 英雄出發時，有人悄悄尾隨。龍穴鋪滿 金銀財寶，英雄用劍刺死惡龍，然後坐 在屍身上，艷羨地看閃爍的珠寶，慢 慢地長出鱗片、尾巴和觸角，最終變成 惡龍。這個傳說曾經在緬甸歷史中應 驗，但今天的緬甸，或許正試圖走出傳 說講述的宿命。
- Burmese Days is a novel by British writer George Orwell. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1934. It is a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as a part of British India – "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." At its centre is John Flory, "the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature."[1] Orwell's first novel, it describes "corruption and imperial bigotry" in a society where, "after all, natives were natives—interesting, no doubt, but finally...an inferior people".
Nigel Carrington, Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London
- featured in an article of CGCC magazine, also:
CHUKA UMUNNA
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21606295-labour-party-leaders-jockey-position-shadow-business-secretary-one-watch#sthash.jqT1varP.dpbs
Tim Marlow
- http://www.wallpaper.com/art/white-cube-opens-a-hong-kong-gallery/5675
- http://en.artmediaagency.com/tag/tim-marlow/
- http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/05/royal-academy-tim-marlow-exhibitions
- (Hong Kong) Artists get chance to brush up at London academy
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1515053/artists-get-chance-brush-london-academy
Lord Bell
- lord bell's textbook for old school public relations http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3d39bf02-4ae2-11e4-839a-00144feab7de.html
Romas Kinka, Anglo Baltic Information Consultancy
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ac5cef1c-7176-11e3-8f92-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2vjsGYAKF
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/921ccde6-9fef-11d9-b355-00000e2511c8.html#axzz2vjsGYAKF
barbara janet woodward new ambassador to china
alistair lang, former HK civil servant
- letter to FT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ebb0c704-020f-11e4-ab5b-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fcomment_letters%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz377zqzdhE
- http://contactbee.com/en/contact/view/3401756
Tim Collard, columnist in telegrah and china daily, was in UK diplomatic service
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/timcollard/
http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/timcollard.htm
Sonny Leong
- http://www.chineseforlabour.org/about-us/executive-committee/item/chair-sonny-leong
- http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=26490286&privcapId=25614339
Anna Lo
- http://www.scmp.com/article/1521876/hong-kong-born-anna-lo-quit-northern-ireland-assembly-over-racist-abuse
Paul Judge
- http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2014-06/13/content_17584274.htm
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/3542600/Tory-grandee-Sir-Paul-Judge-sued-by-former-wife-over-14m-charity-agreement.html
- http://www.mbaworld.com/en/About-us/Our-People/President.aspx
Maria Miller, was culture secretary and involved in expenses scandal
Nick Ferguson - Schroders Network http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/56949988-b670-11e3-905b-00144feabdc0.html#slide0
John McTernan
- http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/johnmcternan1/
- http://www.theguardian.com/profile/john-mcternan
- http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-11/leaked-emails-reveal-aggressive-style-of-john-mcternan/5149158
Philip Hammond
- High-speed rail will fast-track the economy
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/philip-hammond-highspeed-rail-will-fasttrack-the-economy-2226657.html
- Philip Hammond prepares for ‘step change’ to outsource procurement
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d2d5d62-d1b8-11e2-b17e-00144feab7de.html#axzz37WIEvwUh
- http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/07/philip-hammond-a-foreign-secretary-who-would-vote-to-leave-the-eu/
philip stephens
- britain slams the door on HK's freedom http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fb8042d8-0d98-11e4-815f-00144feabdc0.html
- http://www.ippr.org/people/policy-advisory-council/philip-stephens
Anthony Cary
http://www.chevening.org/current_scholars/alumni/alumni_201213/events/past_chevening_events/representing_britain
http://www.cpds.co.uk/key-people/
lawrence freedman
- http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/people/professors/freedman.aspx
- regina ip promoted his book strategy (singtao daily 22 may 14), book recommended by FT http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/b8399676-4c7f-11e3-923d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz32R5II0KBand guardian http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/07/strategy-history-lawrence-freedman-war
- lunch with HK FCC http://fcchk.org/tags/lawrence-freedman-0, http://fcchk.org/event/2013-04-10-fcc-club-lunch-lawrence-freedman
Gerry Grimstone http://icc-forum.com/speakers/GerryGrimstone.html, http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/6879/Gerald-Edgar-(Gerry)-GRIMSTONE, http://www.ukibc.com/ukibc/about_ukibc/Advisory_Council/Gerry_Grimstone.aspx
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2014-06/09/content_17571191.htm
- Gerry Grimstone: Standard Life is preparing for moves to England
Chairman says insurer would not hesitate to protect its market position should Scots vote for independence http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/13/gerry-grimstone-standard-life-scottish-independence-england
Nicky Morgan
- http://www.site.co.uk/Nicky-Morgan
- member of 30% club
Liz Truss
- https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/elizabeth-truss-speaks-about-maths-teaching
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/education-minister-elizabeth-truss-to-travel-to-shanghai-to-find-out-secrets-behind-maths-success-9135322.html
Owen Paterson
- visit to HK to promote british beef in 2012 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ukinhongkong/sets/72157632024196098/, https://twitter.com/UKinHongKong/status/269335581434200064, https://www.facebook.com/UKandHongKong/photos/a.153141311395972.28962.153101271399976/461523410557759/?type=1&permPage=1, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/owen-paterson-in-china-diary-of-a-trade-mission, http://www.themeatsite.com/meatnews/19434/beef-showcase-in-hong-kong
Dr Tim Summers
- http://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/directory/189121
- http://www5.cuhk.edu.hk/ccs/index.php/about-us/meet-the-faculty/12-aboutus/33-meet-the-faculty-tim-summers
Tony Blair
- mideast envoy
Chris Patten
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1550576/former-hong-kong-governor-chris-patten-lead-vatican-media-reform
David Wilson
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1617570/ex-governor-david-wilson-discuss-hong-kong-events-uk-parliament
Lord Ashcroft
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21638111-conservatives-former-deputy-chairman-lord-ashcroft-thriving-pollster-above-fray
Nicholas Loup
- wrote to FT on 10oct14 re occupy central
- http://www.mingtiandi.com/real-estate/agencies-people/nick-loup-leaving-grosvenor-as-ben-cha-prepares-to-take-apac-helm/
- http://www.forbes.com/global/2001/0611/048.html
- http://www.weforum.org/global-agenda-councils/nicholas-loup
Lesley Knox
- http://www.grosvenor.com/about-grosvenor/our-people/profile/lesley-knox/
- https://www.britcham.com/events/upcoming-events/2417 Lesley Knox studied law at Cambridge University and qualified as a lawyer first in England and then New York. She went on to a career in merchant banking at Kleinwort Benson where she became a director in 1986. She became Head of Institutional Asset Management in 1991 and was subsequently a Group Director.
Rona Fairhead
- http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/31/rona-fairhead-bbc-trust-chair
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/11065639/Businesswoman-Rona-Fairhead-the-preferred-choice-for-next-BBC-Trust-chairman.html
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1582592/rona-fairhead-set-be-first-woman-boss-bbc-trust, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/31/uk-britain-bbc-chairman-idUKKBN0GU0X820140831
- BBC新主席履歷 遭受質疑
http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20140902/00180_012.html
- The Board of Directors of HSBC Holdings plc as at the date of this announcement are: Douglas Flint, Stuart Gulliver, Kathleen Casey†, Safra Catz†, Laura Cha†, Sir Jonathan Evans†, Joachim Faber†, Rona Fairhead†, Renato Fassbind†, Sam Laidlaw†, John Lipsky†
, Rachel Lomax†, Iain Mackay, Marc Moses, Sir Simon Robertson†and Jonathan Symonds†
. http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2014/0828/LTN20140828524.pdf
Leon Brittan
- http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/06/leon-brittan-denies-rape-allegation
- In 2014, Danczuk, with researcher and campaigner Matthew Baker, published Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith, an expose of child abuse committed by his parliamentary predecessor in Rochdale.[17] Danczuk said that the abuse included spankings and forcing boys to perform sex acts.[18]In July 2014, Danczuk called for former home secretary Leon Brittan to make public what he knew about a dossier of allegations about paedophiles presented to him by Geoffrey Dickens(1931 – 1995, MP until 1995), which could identify several historic child sex abusers.[19][20] The Home Office stated the dossier had not been retained in their files. Former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord Macdonald said the circumstances in which the dossier had gone missing were alarming, and recommended an inquiry into its fate.[21] Prime Minister David Cameronsubsequently asked the Home Office Permanent Secretary to investigate what happened to the missing dossier. Danczuk responded that another internal inquiry was merely trying to limit damage, and that a public inquiry was necessary to retain public confidence.[22] (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3383168/Cannabis-obsession-sex-ugly-downfall-twists-turns-one-ugliest-sex-scandals-recent-political-history.html)
Richard Ottaway
- http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Croydon-MP-says-train-Manchester/story-21311963-detail/story.html
Peter Cookson Smith (based in HK)
- Peter Cookson Smith is an architect, planner and urban designer. He has been resident in Hong Kong since 1977 when he founded Urbis Limited - one of the first specialist planning, urban design and landscape consultancies in S.E. Asia. Since then the firm has carried out more than 3000 projects in Hong Kong, China and the Asia-Pacific area, and has won more than 100 local and international awards, including the Urban Land Institute's Global Award for Excellence and the American Waterfront Centre's Top Honour Award in 2008. He has, over the past 35 years, directed a large number of studies in Hong Kong, and throughout China and other parts of Asia, including new town planning, urban regeneration, waterfront and central area studies, and since 1984 has directed more than 40 planning studies in various cities within the PRC. Dr. Cookson Smith was a professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong between 2000 and 2004, and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Asian Studies, HKU. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Department of Planning and Urban Design. He is vice-president of the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design established in 2010, and is currently president of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners. He writes regularly on the subject of urban design and is the author of The Urban Design of Impermanence on Hong Kong, and The Urban Design of Concession on the Treaty Port Cities in China and the forthcoming Urban Design of Intervention on Asian cities. He sits on Hong Kong Government's Harbourfront Commission, the Land Advisory Policy Committee, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Infrastructure Committee.
- feature article hkej 31oct14 c3
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1180373/veteran-planner-cookson-smith-cant-see-point-new-border-town
David Pilling
- contributed an article on one country two systems on 4sept14 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ffb50116-3347-11e4-85f1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3CJUGsWTw
John Ross
- 前英高官：英美對華指責很虛偽http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/09/03/a04-0903.pdf
- http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/54e6de9e0c383719802572b9005141ed/be146635d4c1d05e802572ab004be035?OpenDocument
David Walker
- http://www.barclays.com/about-barclays/leadership-team/sir-david-walker.html Sir David began his career with Her Majesty’s Treasury, where, with a period on secondment to the International Monetary Fund in Washington, he served until 1977. Sir David held several key positions at the Bank of England, where he became one of four Executive Directors. He was Chairman of the Securities & Investment Board and, ex officio, a nominated member of the Council of Lloyd’s.
- http://www.ft.com/intl/topics/people/David_Walker
Charles Powell
- http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-powell-of-bayswater/2527
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/11143542/China-uses-Margaret-Thatchers-private-secretary-to-attack-Hong-Kong-protests.html, http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1611072/beijing-wont-yield-occupy-central-says-ex-thatcher-aide-charles
Sassoon Family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassoon_family
- Lord Sassoon Joins the Jardine Matheson Group http://www.jardines.com/assets/files/NewsAndEvents/corporate-press-releases/jardine-matheson/p130103.pdf
- James Sassoon, Chairman of China-Britain Business Council
Ireland related
- Edward Wakefield (1774–1854) was an English philanthropist and statistician, chiefly known as the author of Ireland, Statistical and Political, and as the father of several controversial sons.Wakefield commenced adult life as a farmer near Romford in Essex, and was subsequently employed under the naval arsenal. In 1814 he established himself as a land agent at 42 Pall Mall. He soon became well known as an authority on agriculture, while his interest in education won for him the character of a practical philanthropist. He was a strong advocate of the educational theories of Joseph Lancaster, and was on terms of intimacy with James Mill and Francis Place.Wakefield is best known as the author of Ireland, Statistical and Political, published in 1812, a work which, in spite of many inaccuracies, is, from the candour and tolerance it displays, a very valuable account of Ireland in the early years of the nineteenth century. Of Russian Origin
- http://rbth.com/arts/2013/10/24/14_brits_who_are_secretly_russians_31123.html
- https://rbth.com/politics_and_society/2016/08/12/descendant-of-pushkin-and-the-romanovs-becomes-worlds-youngest-billionaire_620511
of german origin
- Mark Christopher Field (born 6 October 1964, Hanover, Germany), is a British politician, author and solicitor.Since the 2001 general election, Field has represented the Cities of London and Westminster constituency as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP).[1] On 13 June 2017 he was appointed a Minister of State at the Foreign Office. Born at the British Military Hospital[3] in Hanover, Germany, his father (Peter, died 1991) was a Major in the British Army and his mother (Ulrike, née Peipe, died 2010) was of German origin. Field was educated at state-funded grammar school, Reading School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford[4] where he graduated with a B.A. degree in Jurisprudence in 1987. He was Secretary and National Political Officer of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1985–86; JCR President of St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1986; he was also News Editor of student newspaper Cherwell while it was under the editorships of Christina Lamb and Anne McElvoy. During his student days, Field also set up a publishing firm after spotting a gap in the market for careers handbooks in the legal profession. He completed his education at The College of Law at Chester, qualifying as a solicitor in 1990.Whilst an undergraduate at Oxford University he became a personal assistant to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, John (now Lord) Patten, before training as a solicitor and practising as a corporate lawyer with Freshfields between 1990 and 1992. He then became a director of his own lawyer employment agency, Kellyfield Consulting from 1994 until 2001; the company employed a dozen staff and turned over almost £2 million pa. After being elected to Parliament he sold his share of that business to a consortium headed by his ex-business partner.
- Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The English Patient (1996). In addition, he received three more Academy Awardnominations; he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for both The English Patient (1996) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and was posthumously nominated for Best Picture for The Reader (2008), as a co-producer.
czech related
- Dominic Rennie Raab[1] (born 25 February 1974)[2] is a British Conservative Party politician who is Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Raab was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton in 2010. He was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice on 12 May 2015. In Theresa May's first Cabinet reshuffle a year later, he returned to the backbenches. Following the 2017 general election, Raab was appointed Minister of State for Courts and Justice. In January 2018, Theresa May re-shuffled the Cabinet and Raab moved to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.[3] In July 2018, Raab was appointed Brexit secretary by Prime Minister Theresa May following David Davis' resignation.
Poland related
- Joseph Conrad (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuz̪ɛf ˌkɔn.rad]; born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.[1] He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.[note 1] He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.
of hungarian origin
- Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (/ˈɔːrtsiː/; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), pen name as Baroness Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright, and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who transforms into a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist, representing the original "hero with a secret identity".Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, and was the daughter of composer Baron Félix Orczy de Orci (1835–1892) and Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege (1839–1892).[1] Her grandfather, Baron László Orczy (1787–1880) was a royal councillor, and also knight of the Sicilian order of Saint George,[2] her grandmother was the Baroness Magdolna Müller (1811–1879).[3] Her maternal grandparents were the Count Sámuel Wass de Szentegyed et Cege (1815–1879), member of the Hungarian parliament,[4] and Rozália Eperjessy de Károlyfejérvár (1814–1884). Emma's parents left their estate for Budapest in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music unsuccessfully. Finally, in 1880, the 14-year-old Emma and her family moved to London, England where they lodged with their countryman, Francis Pichler, at 162 Great Portland Street. Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art.
- Clare Hollingworth, OBE (10 October 1911 – 10 January 2017) was an English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century".[1] As a reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while travelling from Poland to Germany she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border; three days later she was the first to report the German invasion of Poland.Hollingworth became engaged to the son of a local family known to her own, but instead of marriage, went to work as secretary to the League of Nations Union (LNU) Worcestershire organiser. She then won a scholarship to the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London, and later, a place at Zagreb University to study Croatian. Hollingworth started to write articles on a freelance basis for the New Statesman.[5] In June 1939, she was selected to fight the parliamentary seat of Melton for the Labour Party in the general election that was due to take place by the end of 1940,[6] but the outbreak of war led to the suspension of elections. After the German speaking Sudetenland, formally a part of German-Austria, was incorporated into Germany due to the Munich Agreement in 1938, she went to Warsaw, working with Czech refugees.[5] Between March and July 1939 she helped rescue thousands of people from Hitler's forces by arranging British visas. The experience also led to her being hired by Arthur Wilson, the editor of The Daily Telegraph, in August 1939.
from ukraine
- Leonard "Len" Blavatnik (Russian: Леонид Валентинович Блаватник, Leonid Valentinovich Blavatnik; born June 14, 1957) is a Ukraine-born American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He made his fortune through business via diversified investments in myriad companies through his conglomerate company, Access Industries. Blavatnik was born in Odessa to a Jewish family. In 2010, it was announced that Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation would donate £75 million to the University of Oxford to establish a new school of government.
Israel related
- Reuben Brothers refers to the business interests of David and Simon Reuben. Reuben Brothers has various international departments and companies, headquartered in Switzerland its main activities are in real estate, private equity, and venture capitalism. The Reuben brothers migrated to the UK soon after the creation of Israel in 1948. They began new business activities and later they set up a family company for holding assets in the Russian metals market during the 1980s and 1990s.
Iraq related
- zaha hadid
Africa related
- Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, DL (born 17 August 1949) is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. Fellowes is primarily known as the author of several Sunday Times best-seller novels; for the screenplay for the film Gosford Park, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002; and as the creator, writer and executive producer of the critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning ITV series Downton Abbey (2010–2015).Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes, and his British wife, Olwen Mary (née Stuart-Jones).[1] His father was a diplomat and Arabistwho campaigned to have Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, restored to his throne during World War II.[
from zimbabwe
- Strive Masiyiwa (born 29 January 1961) is a London based Zimbabwean businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder and executive chairman of diversified international telecommunications group Econet Wireless. Masiyiwa is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. As a Panel Member he facilitates coalition building to leverage and broker knowledge, and convenes decision-makers to influence policy for lasting change in Africa. Strive Masiyiwa was born in Zimbabwe on 29 January 1961. He attended primary school in Zambia before completing his secondary education in Scotland. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wales.Masiyiwa's international board appointments include The Rockefeller Foundation, US Council on Foreign Relations International Advisory Board, the Asia Society, the Africa Progress Panel (APP), Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), The Micronutrient Initiative of Canada, Grow Africa, The African Union's (AU) EBOLA Fund, Morehouse College Board, and The Pan African Strategic Institute. Masiyiwa also sits on two United Nations Advisory Panels and is the only African member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience.
India related
- Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod (20 March 1782 – 18 November 1835) was an English-born officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar. He combined his official role and his amateur interests to create a series of works about the history and geography of India, and in particular the area then known as Rajputana that corresponds to the present day state of Rajasthan, and which Tod referred to as Rajas'han. Tod was born in London and educated in Scotland. He joined the East India Company as a military officer and travelled to India in 1799 as a cadet in the Bengal Army. He rose quickly in rank, eventually becoming captain of an escort for an envoy in a Sindian royal court. After the Third Anglo-Maratha War, during which Tod was involved in the intelligence department, he was appointed Political Agent for some areas of Rajputana. His task was to help unify the region under the control of the East India Company. During this period Tod conducted most of the research that he would later publish. Tod was initially successful in his official role, but his methods were questioned by other members of the East India Company. Over time, his work was restricted and his areas of oversight were significantly curtailed. In 1823, owing to declining health and reputation, Tod resigned his post as Political Agent and returned to England. Back home in England, Tod published a number of academic works about Indian history and geography, most notably Annals and Antiquities of Rajas'han, based on materials collected during his travels. He retired from the military in 1826, and married Julia Clutterbuck that same year. He died in 1835, aged 53. Tod's major works have been criticised as containing significant inaccuracies and bias, but he is highly regarded in some areas of India, particularly in communities whose ancestors he praised. His accounts of the Rajputs and of India in general had a significant effect on British views of the area for many years.
- Sajid Javid (Urdu: ساجد جاوید; born 5 December 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician and former managing director at Deutsche Bank who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove since 2010 and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills since 11 May 2015. Javid previously served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2014 to 2015, Minister for Equalities in 2014, Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2013 to 2014 and Economic Secretary from 2012 to 2013. Some commentators, including radio presenter Iain Dale, have stated that Javid has a chance of becoming Leader of the Conservative Party, should David Cameron stand down before the next general election and trigger a leadership election.
Australia/nz related
- Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent. Flinders made three voyages to the southern ocean between 1791 and 1810. In the second voyage, George Bass and Flinders confirmed that Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) was an island. In the third voyage, Flinders circumnavigated the mainland of what was to be called Australia, accompanied by Aboriginal man Bungaree. Heading back to England in 1803, Flinders' vessel needed urgent repairs at Isle de France (Mauritius). Although Britain and France were at war, Flinders thought the scientific nature of his work would ensure safe passage, but a suspicious governor kept him under arrest for more than six years. In captivity, he recorded details of his voyages for future publication, and put forward his rationale for naming the new continent 'Australia', as an umbrella term for New Holland and New South Wales – a suggestion taken up later by Governor Macquarie. Flinders' health had suffered, however, and although he reached home in 1810, he did not live to see the publication of his widely praised book and atlas, A Voyage to Terra Australis.
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 1796 – 16 May 1862) was a British politician. He is considered a key figure in the early colonisation of South Australia and New Zealand.Born in London, Great Britain, in 1796, Wakefield was educated in London and Edinburgh. He was the brother of William Hayward Wakefield, Arthur Wakefield and Felix Wakefield. He served as a King's Messenger, carrying diplomatic mail all about Europe during the later stages of the Napoleonic Wars, both before and after the decisive Battle of Waterloo. In 1831 Wakefield became involved in various schemes to promote the colonisation of South Australia. He believed that many of the social problems in Britain were caused by overcrowding and overpopulation and he saw emigration to the colonies as a useful safety valve. He set out to design a good colonisation scheme, one with a workable combination of labourers, artisans and capital. The scheme was to be financed by the sale of land to the capitalists who would thereby support the other classes of emigrants.
- Sir Nigel Kim Darroch KCMG ( /ˈdærək/; born 30 April 1954)[3] is a senior British diplomat. He has been serving as the British Ambassador to the United States since January 2016. He resigned his post on 10 July 2019[why?], and will leave the post upon the appointment of his successor. Darroch joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1976.[3] He was appointed to the Diplomatic Service in 1980[6] to serve as a First Secretary in Tokyo from 1980 to 1984.[3] He served in a number of posts, including as desk officer for the Channel Tunnel project and co-secretary of the UK-French Channel Tunnel Treaty Group, as private secretary to David Mellor and then The Lord Glenarthur as the FCO's Minister of State from 1987 to 1989, and as Counsellor for External Affairs at the British Permanent Representative to the European Union for a year before being promoted to Director as head of the FCO's press office in 1998.
malaysia related
- Captain Francis Light (1740 – 25 October 1794) was the founder of the British colony of Penang (in modern-day Malaysia) and its capital city of George Town in 1786.Light was baptised in Dallinghoo, Suffolk, England on 15 December 1740.[2] His mother was given as Mary Light, though his father preferred to remain anonymous. Taken in by a relative, the nobleman William Negus, after schooling at elementary school with the Negus children, he began an early apprenticeship with a naval surgeon. Researchers initially believed Light to be the illegitimate son of William Negus, but according to Noël Francis Light Purdon, the 6-times great-grandson of Francis Light, Negus received payment for looking after him and acting as his guardian throughout his education. From 1759 to 1763, Light served as a Royal Navy midshipman. He left to seek his fortune in the colonies, and from 1765 worked as a private country trader. Light's interest in Penang began in 1771, when he proposed the idea of a British settlement in the neighbourhood of the Malay Peninsular to Warren Hastings, the East India Company's Governor of the Presidency of Fort William. He suggested that the island of Penang might serve as a "convenient magazine for the Eastern trade" but at that time his idea gained no ground. For about ten years he had his headquarters in Salang, where he revived a failed French trading post. While in Salang he learned to speak and write several languages, including Malay and Thai. In 1785, he warned the Siamese on Phuket Island of an imminent Burmese attack. Light's warning enabled the islanders to prepare for Phuket's defence and subsequently repel the Burmese invasion. Whereas his previous suggestion had brought no result, following the war that ended in the Peace of 1783 with France and Spain during which Britain had struggled with France for naval superiority, Light's suggestion took on a new significance. In 1786, on behalf of the British East India Company, Light leased Penang Island from Sultan Abdullah Mukarram Shah of Kedah Sultanate, renaming it Prince of Wales Island, and the capital, George Town. Under the administration of Governor-general Sir John Macpherson, Light was entitled Superintendent and put in charge of the settlement; thus occasioning the beginning of British expansion into the Malay States, and into British colonization in Southeast Asia.The Sultan, however, was bound under the Southeast Asian mandala political model in fealty to the king of Siam. Light exceeded his authority with a promise of military aid should the Burmese or Siamese invaded. Thus, when the Sultan's land were invaded and no aid was forthcoming, the Sultan attempted to take back the island as a refuge. A legend arose that Light had been given a Princess of Kedah as a reward, or the island as her dowry, although other sources state that the Princess was sent to enlist Light's aid on behalf of the Sultan.
- Arthur Oakley Coltman (A.O. Coltman) (1894, Edmonton, Middlesex - 1961, Cuckfield, Sussex) was an English architect practising in Malaya for 32 years where he worked as manager of the architecture firm Booty Edwards & Partners. He arrived in Malaya in 1925 and retired in 1957.He was on active service during the First World War before working in the Transvaal, and was officially listed as an absentee member of the Transvaal Provincial Institute of Architects from about 1931 to 1938. He was responsible for many of Kuala Lumpur's greatest Art Deco structures, including the Clock Tower, OCBC Building, and Oriental Building. He also designed the Anglo-Oriental Building near Merdeka Square, which is now known as Wisma Ekran; the Lee Rubber Building, on Jalan Tun H. S. Lee; the Rubber Research Institute, on Jalan Ampang; and the Odeon Cinema, on Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman. Coltman died in Sussex, England at the age of 67 in 1961.
linked to asia
- Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS (6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Singapore. He was also heavily involved in the conquestof the Indonesian island of Java from Dutch and French military forces during the Napoleonic Wars and contributed to the expansion of the British Empire. He was also an amateur writer and wrote a book titled The History of Java (1817).Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Port Morant, Jamaica, to Captain Benjamin Raffles (d. June 1797) and Anne Raffles (née Lyde). His father was a Yorkshireman who had a burgeoning family and little luck in the West Indies trade during the American Revolution, sending the family into debt. The little money the family had went into schooling Raffles. He attended a boarding school. In 1795, at the age of 14, Raffles started working as a clerk in London for the British East India Company, the trading company that shaped many of Britain's overseas conquests. In 1805 he was sent to what is now Penang in the country of Malaysia, then called the Prince of Wales Island, starting his long association with Southeast Asia. He started with a post under the Honourable Philip Dundas, the Governor of Penang. He was appointed assistant secretary to the new Governor of Penang in 1805 and married Olivia Mariamne Devenish, a widow who was formerly married to Jacob Cassivelaun Fancourt, an assistant surgeon in Madras who had died in 1800. At this time he also made the acquaintance of Thomas Otho Travers, who would accompany him for the next twenty years.
- Sir Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan DSO MC (3 August 1913 – 11 October 2004) was a British Conservative politician.Bryan was born in Karuizawa, Japan, the seventh of nine children of The Rev Ingram Bryan.[1][2][3][4] He lived in Japan until he was eight and then returned to England and was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead.[1][2][3][4] He studied Modern Languages at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he took great interest in sport, playing cricket and rugby - he was scrum half in the college rugby team where he played alongside his friend Iain Macleod, the future Tory Chancellor.[1][2][3][4] After graduating he worked in Halifax, Yorkshire, where he met his first wife Betty Hoyle.[1][2][3][4] They were married in 1939.Having been brought up in The Far East he took a great interest in Japan and China. He was chairman of the All-Party Hong Kong Parliamentary Group from 1974 to 1987.[1][2][3][4] He made many friends among political leaders and businessmen both in the colony and in mainland China.[1][2][3][4] He took Chris Patten on his first visit to Hong Kong and later took great interest in the negotiations for the transfer of the colony to China. He took a practical approach to the negotiations.[1][2][3][4]He had immense sympathy for the people of Hong Kong but believed that a handover to China was unavoidable; at the same time, he remained optimistic about the prospects for the colony under Chinese rule.
china linked/been to china
- George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, CH, PC (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015, having represented North West Hampshire from 1997 and Ealing Acton prior to that. He has served in Cabinet on three occasions: as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997; as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012;[1] and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2012 to 2014. He stood down from the Commons at the 2015 election and was created a life peer,[2] as Baron Young of Cookham, of Cookham in the Royal County of Berkshire, on 29 September 2015.[3] He sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords, where he served as a junior whip from July 2016 to August 2019.[4] Young resigned from this position on 29 August in protest at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament.Young was born in Oxford in 1941 into a prominent English family, the elder son of Sir George Peregrine "Gerry" Young, 5th Baronet CMG and Elisabeth Knatchbull-Hugessen. His paternal ancestors include Admiral Sir George Young, an admiral in the Royal Navy and father of the first Baronet; civil servant Sir William Mackworth Young; colonial governors Sir Hubert Winthrop Young and Sir Mark Aitchison Young; mountaineer Geoffrey Winthrop Young, and Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet. Sir Brian Young (1922–2017), director-general of the Independent Television Authority, was his cousin. Young's father was a diplomat who met Elisabeth while serving in Beijing (where her father, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, was British Ambassador). Upon his father's death in 1960, George succeeded to the baronetcycreated in 1813.[5] Young is a great-great-grandson of Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp.
Chinese
- Herbert Tsangtse "Burt" Kwouk, OBE (/kwɒk/ KWOK; Chinese: 郭弼; 18 July 1930 – 24 May 2016) was a British actor, known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films. Kwouk was born in Warrington,[1][2] Cheshire but was brought up in Shanghai. Between the ages of 12 and 16 he attended the Jesuit Mission School there, which he described as "the Far East equivalent of Eton".[1] He left China in 1947 when his Chinese parents returned to Britain and was then sent to the United States to complete his education.[3] In 1953 he graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.[4] The Kwouk family fortune had been lost in the 1949 revolution and in 1954 he came back to Britain. In the 2011 New Year Honours List, Burt Kwouk was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama.
- Nat Wei
friends of china?
- stephen perry, 48 club, london export corporation
- featured in an article of CGCC magazine, also:
- http://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/strategy-governance/governance/executive-board/nigel-carrington/
- http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/international-centre-blog/page/6/
- http://uk.china-embassy.org/eng/EmbassyNews/2012/t915154.htm
- visit to Hong Kong in 1986 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQikmFXvyIw
Royalty
- duke of edinburgh
- Prince Andrew
- Prince William
- h n spalding
Winston Churchill and his family
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11196668/Sir-Winston-Churchills-daughter-leaves-a-fortune.html
- https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Winston-Churchill-never-made-a-peer-lord-Did-he-refuse-it-so-he-could-stay-in-the-Commons He was offered a Dukedom on his retirement as PM in 1955, though only, it is said, after soundings taken by the Queens private secretary had secured a private assurance it would be refused. His fame was obviously so secure that a Ducal title could not affect it - and there was already one Dukedom in the Churchill family (ie. The Duke of Marlborough) He may have felt it might be regarded as an act of disrespect or immodesty towards the memory of Marlborough - whose brilliant biographer he had been- to have accepted a second Churchill Dukedom and in view of his unparalleled service to the nation, no lesser rank in the peerage could decently have been offered.
Mike Ashley
- duke of edinburgh
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20170505/20011159, http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20170505/20011164, http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20170505/20011170
- Prince Andrew
- http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jan/31/prince-andrew-meetings-listed
- Prince William
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1720697/prince-william-hones-his-mandarin-china-visit-next-month
- h n spalding
- a distinguished scholar of Oxford University and founder of the Spalding Chair of Eastern Religion and Ethics https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qIMhlpfGxNYC&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=H.+N.+Spalding&source=bl&ots=fo8l_m57qy&sig=M-Fg3zFjezuvoYEtPiiJMSr5oHU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwBzgUahUKEwjq7oixl-LGAhWDIaYKHVz5C4s#v=onepage&q=H.%20N.%20Spalding&f=false
Winston Churchill and his family
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11196668/Sir-Winston-Churchills-daughter-leaves-a-fortune.html
- https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Winston-Churchill-never-made-a-peer-lord-Did-he-refuse-it-so-he-could-stay-in-the-Commons He was offered a Dukedom on his retirement as PM in 1955, though only, it is said, after soundings taken by the Queens private secretary had secured a private assurance it would be refused. His fame was obviously so secure that a Ducal title could not affect it - and there was already one Dukedom in the Churchill family (ie. The Duke of Marlborough) He may have felt it might be regarded as an act of disrespect or immodesty towards the memory of Marlborough - whose brilliant biographer he had been- to have accepted a second Churchill Dukedom and in view of his unparalleled service to the nation, no lesser rank in the peerage could decently have been offered.
Mike Ashley
- owns Sports Direct
CHUKA UMUNNA
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21606295-labour-party-leaders-jockey-position-shadow-business-secretary-one-watch#sthash.jqT1varP.dpbs
Tim Marlow
- http://www.wallpaper.com/art/white-cube-opens-a-hong-kong-gallery/5675
- http://en.artmediaagency.com/tag/tim-marlow/
- http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/05/royal-academy-tim-marlow-exhibitions
- (Hong Kong) Artists get chance to brush up at London academy
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1515053/artists-get-chance-brush-london-academy
Lord Bell
- lord bell's textbook for old school public relations http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3d39bf02-4ae2-11e4-839a-00144feab7de.html
Romas Kinka, Anglo Baltic Information Consultancy
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ac5cef1c-7176-11e3-8f92-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2vjsGYAKF
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/921ccde6-9fef-11d9-b355-00000e2511c8.html#axzz2vjsGYAKF
barbara janet woodward new ambassador to china
alistair lang, former HK civil servant
- letter to FT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ebb0c704-020f-11e4-ab5b-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fcomment_letters%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz377zqzdhE
- http://contactbee.com/en/contact/view/3401756
Tim Collard, columnist in telegrah and china daily, was in UK diplomatic service
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/timcollard/
http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/timcollard.htm
Sonny Leong
- http://www.chineseforlabour.org/about-us/executive-committee/item/chair-sonny-leong
- http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=26490286&privcapId=25614339
Anna Lo
- http://www.scmp.com/article/1521876/hong-kong-born-anna-lo-quit-northern-ireland-assembly-over-racist-abuse
Paul Judge
- http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2014-06/13/content_17584274.htm
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/3542600/Tory-grandee-Sir-Paul-Judge-sued-by-former-wife-over-14m-charity-agreement.html
- http://www.mbaworld.com/en/About-us/Our-People/President.aspx
Maria Miller, was culture secretary and involved in expenses scandal
Nick Ferguson - Schroders Network http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/56949988-b670-11e3-905b-00144feabdc0.html#slide0
John McTernan
- http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/johnmcternan1/
- http://www.theguardian.com/profile/john-mcternan
- http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-11/leaked-emails-reveal-aggressive-style-of-john-mcternan/5149158
Philip Hammond
- High-speed rail will fast-track the economy
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/philip-hammond-highspeed-rail-will-fasttrack-the-economy-2226657.html
- Philip Hammond prepares for ‘step change’ to outsource procurement
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d2d5d62-d1b8-11e2-b17e-00144feab7de.html#axzz37WIEvwUh
- http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/07/philip-hammond-a-foreign-secretary-who-would-vote-to-leave-the-eu/
philip stephens
- britain slams the door on HK's freedom http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fb8042d8-0d98-11e4-815f-00144feabdc0.html
- http://www.ippr.org/people/policy-advisory-council/philip-stephens
Anthony Cary
http://www.chevening.org/current_scholars/alumni/alumni_201213/events/past_chevening_events/representing_britain
http://www.cpds.co.uk/key-people/
lawrence freedman
- http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/people/professors/freedman.aspx
- regina ip promoted his book strategy (singtao daily 22 may 14), book recommended by FT http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/b8399676-4c7f-11e3-923d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz32R5II0KBand guardian http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/07/strategy-history-lawrence-freedman-war
- lunch with HK FCC http://fcchk.org/tags/lawrence-freedman-0, http://fcchk.org/event/2013-04-10-fcc-club-lunch-lawrence-freedman
Gerry Grimstone http://icc-forum.com/speakers/GerryGrimstone.html, http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/6879/Gerald-Edgar-(Gerry)-GRIMSTONE, http://www.ukibc.com/ukibc/about_ukibc/Advisory_Council/Gerry_Grimstone.aspx
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2014-06/09/content_17571191.htm
- Gerry Grimstone: Standard Life is preparing for moves to England
Chairman says insurer would not hesitate to protect its market position should Scots vote for independence http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/13/gerry-grimstone-standard-life-scottish-independence-england
Nicky Morgan
- http://www.site.co.uk/Nicky-Morgan
- member of 30% club
Liz Truss
- https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/elizabeth-truss-speaks-about-maths-teaching
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/education-minister-elizabeth-truss-to-travel-to-shanghai-to-find-out-secrets-behind-maths-success-9135322.html
Owen Paterson
- visit to HK to promote british beef in 2012 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ukinhongkong/sets/72157632024196098/, https://twitter.com/UKinHongKong/status/269335581434200064, https://www.facebook.com/UKandHongKong/photos/a.153141311395972.28962.153101271399976/461523410557759/?type=1&permPage=1, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/owen-paterson-in-china-diary-of-a-trade-mission, http://www.themeatsite.com/meatnews/19434/beef-showcase-in-hong-kong
Dr Tim Summers
- http://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/directory/189121
- http://www5.cuhk.edu.hk/ccs/index.php/about-us/meet-the-faculty/12-aboutus/33-meet-the-faculty-tim-summers
Tony Blair
- mideast envoy
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8104fbbe-cb31-11e4-bac3-00144feab7de.html Tony Blair is preparing to step back from his role as a Middle East peace envoy as the US and Europe review policy options before Israel’s election this week. After nearly eight years as an envoy for the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators, the former British prime minister has recognised that a frontline role is no longer tenable, according to several insiders. Mr Blair’s move comes amid deep unease in parts of Washington and Brussels over his poor relations with senior Palestinian Authority figures and sprawling business interests.
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ecfa080c-047d-11e5-a5c3-00144feabdc0.html Tony Blair will step down as Middle East envoy next month, bringing to an end a controversial eight-year role that made him a fixture of Middle Eastern diplomacy. The former British prime minister took the position as an envoy for the quartet of Middle East peace negotiators — made up of the US, EU, UN and Russia — immediately after he left Downing Street in 2007. But as the FT reported in March, Mr Blair recognised a frontline role was no longer tenable. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-32905468
- http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160430/00180_005.html 英國前首相貝理雅過往多次被揭發，卸任後任職中東和平特使期間以權謀私。有英國媒體近日再爆料，指他曾為一間沙特阿拉伯油公司穿針引線，令中國政府首肯讓其打入中國市場，促成價值百萬英鎊的合約，藉以賺取共四萬一千鎊（約四十六萬港元）及百分之二的合約佣金。《衞報》周四報道，貝理雅早在任職首相期間與中方建立互信關係，一○年三月於北京與時任中國副總理李克強會面，同年亦與現任中國財政部部長樓繼偉會面。當年夏天起，貝理雅的私人公司為一間由沙特王子擁有的倫敦石油公司PetroSaudi，擔當向中國引見的介紹人工作，終在年末成功為兩方安排會面，令公司獲得北京的首肯進入市場。
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3245620.stm
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1448095/Revealed-Labours-Big-Conversation-is-a-fix.html
Chris Patten
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1550576/former-hong-kong-governor-chris-patten-lead-vatican-media-reform
David Wilson
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1617570/ex-governor-david-wilson-discuss-hong-kong-events-uk-parliament
Lord Ashcroft
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21638111-conservatives-former-deputy-chairman-lord-ashcroft-thriving-pollster-above-fray
Nicholas Loup
- wrote to FT on 10oct14 re occupy central
- http://www.mingtiandi.com/real-estate/agencies-people/nick-loup-leaving-grosvenor-as-ben-cha-prepares-to-take-apac-helm/
- http://www.forbes.com/global/2001/0611/048.html
- http://www.weforum.org/global-agenda-councils/nicholas-loup
Lesley Knox
- http://www.grosvenor.com/about-grosvenor/our-people/profile/lesley-knox/
- https://www.britcham.com/events/upcoming-events/2417 Lesley Knox studied law at Cambridge University and qualified as a lawyer first in England and then New York. She went on to a career in merchant banking at Kleinwort Benson where she became a director in 1986. She became Head of Institutional Asset Management in 1991 and was subsequently a Group Director.
In 1999, Lesley co-founded British Linen Advisers (a specialist corporate finance adviser) and remained as a director until 2002. She is Chairman of Grosvenor Group Limited and was until March 2012 Chairman of the Alliance Trust plc. She is a Non-Executive Director of SABMiller Plc and Centrica Plc and is Chairman of the V&A at Dundee, formed to build a new design centre in the city to provide a showcase for the best in international design. She is also a trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Rona Fairhead
- http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/31/rona-fairhead-bbc-trust-chair
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/11065639/Businesswoman-Rona-Fairhead-the-preferred-choice-for-next-BBC-Trust-chairman.html
- http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1582592/rona-fairhead-set-be-first-woman-boss-bbc-trust, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/31/uk-britain-bbc-chairman-idUKKBN0GU0X820140831
- BBC新主席履歷 遭受質疑
http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20140902/00180_012.html
- The Board of Directors of HSBC Holdings plc as at the date of this announcement are: Douglas Flint, Stuart Gulliver, Kathleen Casey†, Safra Catz†, Laura Cha†, Sir Jonathan Evans†, Joachim Faber†, Rona Fairhead†, Renato Fassbind†, Sam Laidlaw†, John Lipsky†
, Rachel Lomax†, Iain Mackay, Marc Moses, Sir Simon Robertson†and Jonathan Symonds†
. http://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2014/0828/LTN20140828524.pdf
Leon Brittan
- http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/06/leon-brittan-denies-rape-allegation
- In 2014, Danczuk, with researcher and campaigner Matthew Baker, published Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith, an expose of child abuse committed by his parliamentary predecessor in Rochdale.[17] Danczuk said that the abuse included spankings and forcing boys to perform sex acts.[18]In July 2014, Danczuk called for former home secretary Leon Brittan to make public what he knew about a dossier of allegations about paedophiles presented to him by Geoffrey Dickens(1931 – 1995, MP until 1995), which could identify several historic child sex abusers.[19][20] The Home Office stated the dossier had not been retained in their files. Former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord Macdonald said the circumstances in which the dossier had gone missing were alarming, and recommended an inquiry into its fate.[21] Prime Minister David Cameronsubsequently asked the Home Office Permanent Secretary to investigate what happened to the missing dossier. Danczuk responded that another internal inquiry was merely trying to limit damage, and that a public inquiry was necessary to retain public confidence.[22] (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3383168/Cannabis-obsession-sex-ugly-downfall-twists-turns-one-ugliest-sex-scandals-recent-political-history.html)
Richard Ottaway
- http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Croydon-MP-says-train-Manchester/story-21311963-detail/story.html
Peter Cookson Smith (based in HK)
- Peter Cookson Smith is an architect, planner and urban designer. He has been resident in Hong Kong since 1977 when he founded Urbis Limited - one of the first specialist planning, urban design and landscape consultancies in S.E. Asia. Since then the firm has carried out more than 3000 projects in Hong Kong, China and the Asia-Pacific area, and has won more than 100 local and international awards, including the Urban Land Institute's Global Award for Excellence and the American Waterfront Centre's Top Honour Award in 2008. He has, over the past 35 years, directed a large number of studies in Hong Kong, and throughout China and other parts of Asia, including new town planning, urban regeneration, waterfront and central area studies, and since 1984 has directed more than 40 planning studies in various cities within the PRC. Dr. Cookson Smith was a professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong between 2000 and 2004, and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Asian Studies, HKU. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Department of Planning and Urban Design. He is vice-president of the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design established in 2010, and is currently president of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners. He writes regularly on the subject of urban design and is the author of The Urban Design of Impermanence on Hong Kong, and The Urban Design of Concession on the Treaty Port Cities in China and the forthcoming Urban Design of Intervention on Asian cities. He sits on Hong Kong Government's Harbourfront Commission, the Land Advisory Policy Committee, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Infrastructure Committee.
- feature article hkej 31oct14 c3
- http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1180373/veteran-planner-cookson-smith-cant-see-point-new-border-town
David Pilling
- contributed an article on one country two systems on 4sept14 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ffb50116-3347-11e4-85f1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3CJUGsWTw
John Ross
- 前英高官：英美對華指責很虛偽http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2014/09/03/a04-0903.pdf
- http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/54e6de9e0c383719802572b9005141ed/be146635d4c1d05e802572ab004be035?OpenDocument
David Walker
- http://www.barclays.com/about-barclays/leadership-team/sir-david-walker.html Sir David began his career with Her Majesty’s Treasury, where, with a period on secondment to the International Monetary Fund in Washington, he served until 1977. Sir David held several key positions at the Bank of England, where he became one of four Executive Directors. He was Chairman of the Securities & Investment Board and, ex officio, a nominated member of the Council of Lloyd’s.
- http://www.ft.com/intl/topics/people/David_Walker
Charles Powell
- http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-powell-of-bayswater/2527
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/11143542/China-uses-Margaret-Thatchers-private-secretary-to-attack-Hong-Kong-protests.html, http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1611072/beijing-wont-yield-occupy-central-says-ex-thatcher-aide-charles
Sassoon Family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassoon_family
- Lord Sassoon Joins the Jardine Matheson Group http://www.jardines.com/assets/files/NewsAndEvents/corporate-press-releases/jardine-matheson/p130103.pdf
- James Sassoon, Chairman of China-Britain Business Council
- http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-09/09/content_16954238.htm
- 沙宣並非單指一人，而是一個猶太人家族，這個家族在戰後不久已淡出香港了。 沙宣家族的“族長”是大衞沙宣，他於一八三二年由家鄉巴格達前往印度孟賣，成立沙遜洋行，鴉片戰爭後將貿易版圖擴展至中國，包括香港。他成功之處，在於將八名兒子分配到不同地區工作，形成一個龐大的家族網路。香港的公司設於中環，由四子魯賓、五子阿瑟、七子所羅門和八子菲德力輪流打理。一八五五年在跑馬地建立猶太人墳場，由魯賓主持啟用禮。 一八六四年成立的香港上海?豐銀行，參與籌建者包括沙遜洋行的阿瑟沙宣。銀行初期租用中環域釐行作為總部，那是沙遜洋行的物業，後來售予?豐。另一成員菲德力亦表現出眾，一八八四年被委任為立法局議員。 大衞沙宣逝世後，次子伊利亞斯自立門户，成立新沙遜洋行，業務很快便勝過舊沙遜洋行。伊利亞斯有五名兒子，分別在孟賣、上海和香港工作。二十世紀初，長子雅各捐出半山羅便臣道土地，兩名弟弟出資興建一座猶太會堂，一九○一年落成，以母親莉亞為名。 沙宣家族於一九五○年左右將業務撤出大陸和香港，反觀另一猶太人家族嘉道理則選擇以香港為家，在不同行業建立穩固根基，為香港人所熟悉。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150719/PDF/a21_screen.pdf
Elite/high society
Elite/high society
-David John Mellor QC (born 12 March 1949) is a British broadcaster, journalist and businessman, and former politician. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1990–92) and Secretary of State for National Heritage (April–September 1992), before resigning in 1992. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney from 1979 to 1997.Since leaving Parliament, Mellor has worked as a newspaper columnist, a radio presenter,[3] after-dinner speaker, served as Chairman of the government's 'Football Task Force', and established a successful career as an international business consultant and entrepreneur.Born in Wareham, Dorset, Mellor was educated at Swanage Grammar School, and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association[4] and a contestant on University Challenge. After briefly working for Jeffrey Archer (then a Member of Parliament (MP)) while studying for his bar exams, Mellor became a barrister in 1972 and Queens Counsel in 1987. He has not practised since being elected as an MP and remains "non practising".Mellor was chairman of the incoming Labour government's 'Football Task Force' from August 1997 until its dissolution in 1999. Among the recommendations accepted by the Labour government and introduced into law was the criminalisation of racial abuse by an individual spectator, as distinct from a group.
Ireland related
- Edward Wakefield (1774–1854) was an English philanthropist and statistician, chiefly known as the author of Ireland, Statistical and Political, and as the father of several controversial sons.Wakefield commenced adult life as a farmer near Romford in Essex, and was subsequently employed under the naval arsenal. In 1814 he established himself as a land agent at 42 Pall Mall. He soon became well known as an authority on agriculture, while his interest in education won for him the character of a practical philanthropist. He was a strong advocate of the educational theories of Joseph Lancaster, and was on terms of intimacy with James Mill and Francis Place.Wakefield is best known as the author of Ireland, Statistical and Political, published in 1812, a work which, in spite of many inaccuracies, is, from the candour and tolerance it displays, a very valuable account of Ireland in the early years of the nineteenth century. Of Russian Origin
- http://rbth.com/arts/2013/10/24/14_brits_who_are_secretly_russians_31123.html
- https://rbth.com/politics_and_society/2016/08/12/descendant-of-pushkin-and-the-romanovs-becomes-worlds-youngest-billionaire_620511
of german origin
- Mark Christopher Field (born 6 October 1964, Hanover, Germany), is a British politician, author and solicitor.Since the 2001 general election, Field has represented the Cities of London and Westminster constituency as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP).[1] On 13 June 2017 he was appointed a Minister of State at the Foreign Office. Born at the British Military Hospital[3] in Hanover, Germany, his father (Peter, died 1991) was a Major in the British Army and his mother (Ulrike, née Peipe, died 2010) was of German origin. Field was educated at state-funded grammar school, Reading School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford[4] where he graduated with a B.A. degree in Jurisprudence in 1987. He was Secretary and National Political Officer of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1985–86; JCR President of St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1986; he was also News Editor of student newspaper Cherwell while it was under the editorships of Christina Lamb and Anne McElvoy. During his student days, Field also set up a publishing firm after spotting a gap in the market for careers handbooks in the legal profession. He completed his education at The College of Law at Chester, qualifying as a solicitor in 1990.Whilst an undergraduate at Oxford University he became a personal assistant to the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, John (now Lord) Patten, before training as a solicitor and practising as a corporate lawyer with Freshfields between 1990 and 1992. He then became a director of his own lawyer employment agency, Kellyfield Consulting from 1994 until 2001; the company employed a dozen staff and turned over almost £2 million pa. After being elected to Parliament he sold his share of that business to a consortium headed by his ex-business partner.
- met with CE and SFST in august 2017
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/23/mark-field-and-the-greenpeace-protest-free-speech-versus-the-need-for-security Mark Field has been suspended as a Foreign Office minister after a video showed him pushing a female Greenpeace activist against a pillar and grabbing her neck while she protested at the chancellor’s Mansion House speech.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/21/mark-field-suspended-as-minister-after-grabbing-climate-protester-by-neck
- Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The English Patient (1996). In addition, he received three more Academy Awardnominations; he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for both The English Patient (1996) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and was posthumously nominated for Best Picture for The Reader (2008), as a co-producer.
- Minghella was born in Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England that is a popular holiday resort. His family are well known on the Island, where they ran a café in Ryde until the 1980s and have run an eponymous business making and selling Italian-style ice cream since the 1950s.[1] His parents were Edoardo Minghella (an Italian immigrant) and Leeds-born Gloria Alberta (née Arcari).[2][3] His mother's ancestors originally came from Valvori, a small village in the Lazio region of central Italy.[4][5] He was one of five children, a sister being Loretta Minghella, and a brother Dominic Minghella who would also become a screenwriter and producer.
- Minghella met his first wife, Yvonne Miller, when they were students.[17] They had one daughter, Hannah,[18] who worked as a production assistant on The Talented Mr. Ripley, and was President of Sony Pictures Animation[19] for a time. Minghella and his first wife eventually divorced. In 1985, Minghella married Hong Kong–born choreographer and dancer Carolyn Jane Choa.[5] They had one son, Max, who is an actor,screenwriter and now director. Minghella's younger brother, Dominic Minghella, is the creator of the popular British television series Robin Hood and Doc Martin, and a scriptwriter. His sister Loretta Minghella is First Church Estates Commissioner at the Church Commissioners, having previously been Director of Christian Aid,[20] his sister Edana participated in a jazz event on the Isle of Wight, and his nephew Dante is one of the participants in Channel 4's Child Genius series.
- carolyn choa
- scmp 18mar19
czech related
- Dominic Rennie Raab[1] (born 25 February 1974)[2] is a British Conservative Party politician who is Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Raab was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton in 2010. He was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice on 12 May 2015. In Theresa May's first Cabinet reshuffle a year later, he returned to the backbenches. Following the 2017 general election, Raab was appointed Minister of State for Courts and Justice. In January 2018, Theresa May re-shuffled the Cabinet and Raab moved to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.[3] In July 2018, Raab was appointed Brexit secretary by Prime Minister Theresa May following David Davis' resignation.
- Raab grew up in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of a Czech-born Jewish father who came to Britain in 1938 as a refugee.[5]Raab attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham before Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where he read Law.[6] After graduating, he gained a master's degree at Jesus College, Cambridge. Raab was initially a solicitor at Linklaters in London. He spent the summer of 1998 at Birzeit University near Ramallah where he worked for one of the principal Palestinian negotiators of the Oslo peace accords, assessing World Bank projects on the West Bank. In 2000, Raab joined the Foreign Office, covering a range of briefs including leading a team at the British Embassy in The Hague, dedicated to bringing war criminals to justice. After returning to London, he advised on the Arab–Israeli conflict, the European Union, and Gibraltar. From 2006 to 2010, Raab worked in Parliament as Chief of Staff to Shadow Home Secretary David Davis and to Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Dominic Grieve.
Poland related
- Joseph Conrad (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuz̪ɛf ˌkɔn.rad]; born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.[1] He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.[note 1] He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.
of hungarian origin
- Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (/ˈɔːrtsiː/; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), pen name as Baroness Orczy, was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright, and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who transforms into a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist, representing the original "hero with a secret identity".Emmuska Orczy was born in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary, and was the daughter of composer Baron Félix Orczy de Orci (1835–1892) and Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege (1839–1892).[1] Her grandfather, Baron László Orczy (1787–1880) was a royal councillor, and also knight of the Sicilian order of Saint George,[2] her grandmother was the Baroness Magdolna Müller (1811–1879).[3] Her maternal grandparents were the Count Sámuel Wass de Szentegyed et Cege (1815–1879), member of the Hungarian parliament,[4] and Rozália Eperjessy de Károlyfejérvár (1814–1884). Emma's parents left their estate for Budapest in 1868, fearful of the threat of a peasant revolution. They lived in Budapest, Brussels, and Paris, where Emma studied music unsuccessfully. Finally, in 1880, the 14-year-old Emma and her family moved to London, England where they lodged with their countryman, Francis Pichler, at 162 Great Portland Street. Orczy attended West London School of Art and then Heatherley's School of Fine Art.
- Le Mouron rouge / The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution, first published in 1905. The novel was written after Orczy's stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London and popular success earlier in 1905, after a first run in Nottingham in 1903. The Scarlet Pimpernel is the name of a chivalrous Englishman, Sir Percy Blakeney, in the time of the Terrors in France, who, with his band of gentlemen, rescues aristocrats before they can be killed by the violent government in revolutionary France. A wealthy English fop, he is known by his symbol, a simple flower, the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis). He succeeds by transforming himself into a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist in addition to the strict secrecy of the group's movements. His identity is secret to all but his men. Marguerite Blakeney, French wife of the wealthy English dandy, is approached by the new French envoy to England with a threat to her brother's life if she does not aid in his search for the Pimpernel. She aids him, and then discovers that the Pimpernel is also very dear to her. She sails to France to stop the envoy.
Eastern europe related
- Citizen Chauvelin, the recurring villain of the Scarlet Pimpernel series, is based to some extent on the real-life Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin, who survived the Revolutionary period to serve as an official under Napoleon. He was a noted liberal Deputy under the Bourbon Restoration.
- Clare Hollingworth, OBE (10 October 1911 – 10 January 2017) was an English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as "the scoop of the century".[1] As a reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while travelling from Poland to Germany she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border; three days later she was the first to report the German invasion of Poland.Hollingworth became engaged to the son of a local family known to her own, but instead of marriage, went to work as secretary to the League of Nations Union (LNU) Worcestershire organiser. She then won a scholarship to the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London, and later, a place at Zagreb University to study Croatian. Hollingworth started to write articles on a freelance basis for the New Statesman.[5] In June 1939, she was selected to fight the parliamentary seat of Melton for the Labour Party in the general election that was due to take place by the end of 1940,[6] but the outbreak of war led to the suspension of elections. After the German speaking Sudetenland, formally a part of German-Austria, was incorporated into Germany due to the Munich Agreement in 1938, she went to Warsaw, working with Czech refugees.[5] Between March and July 1939 she helped rescue thousands of people from Hitler's forces by arranging British visas. The experience also led to her being hired by Arthur Wilson, the editor of The Daily Telegraph, in August 1939.
from ukraine
- Leonard "Len" Blavatnik (Russian: Леонид Валентинович Блаватник, Leonid Valentinovich Blavatnik; born June 14, 1957) is a Ukraine-born American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He made his fortune through business via diversified investments in myriad companies through his conglomerate company, Access Industries. Blavatnik was born in Odessa to a Jewish family. In 2010, it was announced that Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation would donate £75 million to the University of Oxford to establish a new school of government.
Israel related
- Reuben Brothers refers to the business interests of David and Simon Reuben. Reuben Brothers has various international departments and companies, headquartered in Switzerland its main activities are in real estate, private equity, and venture capitalism. The Reuben brothers migrated to the UK soon after the creation of Israel in 1948. They began new business activities and later they set up a family company for holding assets in the Russian metals market during the 1980s and 1990s.
Iraq related
- zaha hadid
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20160402/PDF/a23_screen.pdf 哈迪德與香港甚有淵源，在創新樓項目擔任認可人士、身為哈迪德的香港合作伙伴的本地建築師吳永順稱，最難忘她堅持、永不妥協的態度。他憶述2008年哈迪德獲聘任為創新樓的建築師後，在一個午宴上，哈迪德向與會者簡介設計後回到飯桌，理大一名高層問她“窗子怎樣抹”，哈迪德當時不以為然地回答“沒問題的”，低頭繼續吃?面前的沙律，令他印象深刻。
- 哈迪德首個重要設計便是太平山頂建築群，更憑此贏得建築比賽大獎，一舉成名。然而，哈迪德的設計出於種種因素未能實現，使香港與她首座建築失諸交臂，直至2013年理工大學賽馬會創新樓落成，哈迪德的建築才落戶香港。1983年山頂纜車站旁的爐峰塔（俗稱老襯亭）有意重建，更舉辦建築比賽，哈迪德度身訂造「反地心吸力」式的建築草圖，外型呈鋸齒狀，並大量開拓地底空間，以配合太平山獨特的地理位置。設計結果贏得大獎，但建造方法複雜及價格高昂，最終未獲採用，爐峰塔原址於1996年建成現今的凌霄閣。另外，理大2007年有意為設計學院興建新大樓，邀得哈迪德操刀，她決意為「紅磚大學」增添未來色彩，設計出外型相當不規則的建築。創新樓樓高15層、耗資2.49億港元，2013年8月落成。哈迪德形容它深具「流動」特質，創新樓2014年獲香港工程師學會及英國結構工程師學會頒發「卓越結構嘉許獎」。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/04/02/a14-0402.pdf
- Patrik Schumacher is a practicing architect, educator and architectural theorist based in London. He is the principal of the global architecture and design brand Zaha Hadid Architectsand founder of the Design Research Lab at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AADRL). He has coined the phrase ‘parametricism’ denoting a major trend in contemporary architecture based on the use of advanced computational design techniques and has argued that parametricism is poised to become the global epochal style for architecture, urbanism and design of the 21st century.
Africa related
- Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, DL (born 17 August 1949) is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. Fellowes is primarily known as the author of several Sunday Times best-seller novels; for the screenplay for the film Gosford Park, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002; and as the creator, writer and executive producer of the critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning ITV series Downton Abbey (2010–2015).Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes, and his British wife, Olwen Mary (née Stuart-Jones).[1] His father was a diplomat and Arabistwho campaigned to have Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, restored to his throne during World War II.[
from zimbabwe
- Strive Masiyiwa (born 29 January 1961) is a London based Zimbabwean businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the founder and executive chairman of diversified international telecommunications group Econet Wireless. Masiyiwa is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. As a Panel Member he facilitates coalition building to leverage and broker knowledge, and convenes decision-makers to influence policy for lasting change in Africa. Strive Masiyiwa was born in Zimbabwe on 29 January 1961. He attended primary school in Zambia before completing his secondary education in Scotland. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wales.Masiyiwa's international board appointments include The Rockefeller Foundation, US Council on Foreign Relations International Advisory Board, the Asia Society, the Africa Progress Panel (APP), Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), The Micronutrient Initiative of Canada, Grow Africa, The African Union's (AU) EBOLA Fund, Morehouse College Board, and The Pan African Strategic Institute. Masiyiwa also sits on two United Nations Advisory Panels and is the only African member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience.
India related
- Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod (20 March 1782 – 18 November 1835) was an English-born officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar. He combined his official role and his amateur interests to create a series of works about the history and geography of India, and in particular the area then known as Rajputana that corresponds to the present day state of Rajasthan, and which Tod referred to as Rajas'han. Tod was born in London and educated in Scotland. He joined the East India Company as a military officer and travelled to India in 1799 as a cadet in the Bengal Army. He rose quickly in rank, eventually becoming captain of an escort for an envoy in a Sindian royal court. After the Third Anglo-Maratha War, during which Tod was involved in the intelligence department, he was appointed Political Agent for some areas of Rajputana. His task was to help unify the region under the control of the East India Company. During this period Tod conducted most of the research that he would later publish. Tod was initially successful in his official role, but his methods were questioned by other members of the East India Company. Over time, his work was restricted and his areas of oversight were significantly curtailed. In 1823, owing to declining health and reputation, Tod resigned his post as Political Agent and returned to England. Back home in England, Tod published a number of academic works about Indian history and geography, most notably Annals and Antiquities of Rajas'han, based on materials collected during his travels. He retired from the military in 1826, and married Julia Clutterbuck that same year. He died in 1835, aged 53. Tod's major works have been criticised as containing significant inaccuracies and bias, but he is highly regarded in some areas of India, particularly in communities whose ancestors he praised. His accounts of the Rajputs and of India in general had a significant effect on British views of the area for many years.
- Sajid Javid (Urdu: ساجد جاوید; born 5 December 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician and former managing director at Deutsche Bank who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove since 2010 and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills since 11 May 2015. Javid previously served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2014 to 2015, Minister for Equalities in 2014, Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2013 to 2014 and Economic Secretary from 2012 to 2013. Some commentators, including radio presenter Iain Dale, have stated that Javid has a chance of becoming Leader of the Conservative Party, should David Cameron stand down before the next general election and trigger a leadership election.
Australia/nz related
- Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent. Flinders made three voyages to the southern ocean between 1791 and 1810. In the second voyage, George Bass and Flinders confirmed that Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) was an island. In the third voyage, Flinders circumnavigated the mainland of what was to be called Australia, accompanied by Aboriginal man Bungaree. Heading back to England in 1803, Flinders' vessel needed urgent repairs at Isle de France (Mauritius). Although Britain and France were at war, Flinders thought the scientific nature of his work would ensure safe passage, but a suspicious governor kept him under arrest for more than six years. In captivity, he recorded details of his voyages for future publication, and put forward his rationale for naming the new continent 'Australia', as an umbrella term for New Holland and New South Wales – a suggestion taken up later by Governor Macquarie. Flinders' health had suffered, however, and although he reached home in 1810, he did not live to see the publication of his widely praised book and atlas, A Voyage to Terra Australis.
- 英國考古學家近日在倫敦尤斯頓車站的高鐵建址內，發現航海探險家弗林德斯（Matthew Flinders）的石棺尤斯頓車站在兩個世紀前曾擴建，期間弗林德斯的墓碑被拆除，外界一度擔心其墓棺從此消失於人間。根據石棺上紀錄，弗林德斯在一八一四年七月廿三日下葬，終年四十歲。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190126/00180_031.html
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 1796 – 16 May 1862) was a British politician. He is considered a key figure in the early colonisation of South Australia and New Zealand.Born in London, Great Britain, in 1796, Wakefield was educated in London and Edinburgh. He was the brother of William Hayward Wakefield, Arthur Wakefield and Felix Wakefield. He served as a King's Messenger, carrying diplomatic mail all about Europe during the later stages of the Napoleonic Wars, both before and after the decisive Battle of Waterloo. In 1831 Wakefield became involved in various schemes to promote the colonisation of South Australia. He believed that many of the social problems in Britain were caused by overcrowding and overpopulation and he saw emigration to the colonies as a useful safety valve. He set out to design a good colonisation scheme, one with a workable combination of labourers, artisans and capital. The scheme was to be financed by the sale of land to the capitalists who would thereby support the other classes of emigrants.
- The New Zealand Company was a 19th-century English company that played a key role in the colonisation of New Zealand. The company was formed to carry out the principles of systematic colonisation devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a new-model English society in the southern hemisphere. Under Wakefield’s model, the colony would attract capitalists who would then have a ready supply of labour—migrant labourers who could not initially afford to be property owners, but who would have the expectation of one day buying land with their savings. The New Zealand Company established settlements at Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui and Dunedin and also became involved in the settling of New Plymouth and Christchurch. It reached the peak of efficiency about 1841, encountered financial problems from 1843 from which it never recovered, and wound up in 1858.
- a former English Australian television actor, best known for his role in 1970s soap opera The Restless Years. Thompson eventually chose to leave acting and devote himself to what would prove to be a successful career in the hotel industry. Working his way up from waiter, he eventually served as general manager of the Hyatt Regency Sydney, the Park Hyatt Canberra, the Park Hyatt Tokyo, and the Park Hyatt Los Angeles. While at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, Thompson coordinated the shooting of the film Lost in Translation at the hotel in 2002. To ensure that guests would not be disturbed, Thompson insisted that all filiming take place at night, between midnight and 6:00 am, and that the crew be escorted by a hotel employee at all times.[3][4] Although several Park Hyatt employees were cast as extras, Thompson himself does not appear in the film. Thompson was thrice nominated for Hyatt International General Manager of the Year.[2] In 2006, he returned to Japan to serve as general manager of The Peninsula Tokyo, which opened for business in 13 September 2007.
- Sir Nigel Kim Darroch KCMG ( /ˈdærək/; born 30 April 1954)[3] is a senior British diplomat. He has been serving as the British Ambassador to the United States since January 2016. He resigned his post on 10 July 2019[why?], and will leave the post upon the appointment of his successor. Darroch joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1976.[3] He was appointed to the Diplomatic Service in 1980[6] to serve as a First Secretary in Tokyo from 1980 to 1984.[3] He served in a number of posts, including as desk officer for the Channel Tunnel project and co-secretary of the UK-French Channel Tunnel Treaty Group, as private secretary to David Mellor and then The Lord Glenarthur as the FCO's Minister of State from 1987 to 1989, and as Counsellor for External Affairs at the British Permanent Representative to the European Union for a year before being promoted to Director as head of the FCO's press office in 1998.
malaysia related
- Captain Francis Light (1740 – 25 October 1794) was the founder of the British colony of Penang (in modern-day Malaysia) and its capital city of George Town in 1786.Light was baptised in Dallinghoo, Suffolk, England on 15 December 1740.[2] His mother was given as Mary Light, though his father preferred to remain anonymous. Taken in by a relative, the nobleman William Negus, after schooling at elementary school with the Negus children, he began an early apprenticeship with a naval surgeon. Researchers initially believed Light to be the illegitimate son of William Negus, but according to Noël Francis Light Purdon, the 6-times great-grandson of Francis Light, Negus received payment for looking after him and acting as his guardian throughout his education. From 1759 to 1763, Light served as a Royal Navy midshipman. He left to seek his fortune in the colonies, and from 1765 worked as a private country trader. Light's interest in Penang began in 1771, when he proposed the idea of a British settlement in the neighbourhood of the Malay Peninsular to Warren Hastings, the East India Company's Governor of the Presidency of Fort William. He suggested that the island of Penang might serve as a "convenient magazine for the Eastern trade" but at that time his idea gained no ground. For about ten years he had his headquarters in Salang, where he revived a failed French trading post. While in Salang he learned to speak and write several languages, including Malay and Thai. In 1785, he warned the Siamese on Phuket Island of an imminent Burmese attack. Light's warning enabled the islanders to prepare for Phuket's defence and subsequently repel the Burmese invasion. Whereas his previous suggestion had brought no result, following the war that ended in the Peace of 1783 with France and Spain during which Britain had struggled with France for naval superiority, Light's suggestion took on a new significance. In 1786, on behalf of the British East India Company, Light leased Penang Island from Sultan Abdullah Mukarram Shah of Kedah Sultanate, renaming it Prince of Wales Island, and the capital, George Town. Under the administration of Governor-general Sir John Macpherson, Light was entitled Superintendent and put in charge of the settlement; thus occasioning the beginning of British expansion into the Malay States, and into British colonization in Southeast Asia.The Sultan, however, was bound under the Southeast Asian mandala political model in fealty to the king of Siam. Light exceeded his authority with a promise of military aid should the Burmese or Siamese invaded. Thus, when the Sultan's land were invaded and no aid was forthcoming, the Sultan attempted to take back the island as a refuge. A legend arose that Light had been given a Princess of Kedah as a reward, or the island as her dowry, although other sources state that the Princess was sent to enlist Light's aid on behalf of the Sultan.
- Arthur Oakley Coltman (A.O. Coltman) (1894, Edmonton, Middlesex - 1961, Cuckfield, Sussex) was an English architect practising in Malaya for 32 years where he worked as manager of the architecture firm Booty Edwards & Partners. He arrived in Malaya in 1925 and retired in 1957.He was on active service during the First World War before working in the Transvaal, and was officially listed as an absentee member of the Transvaal Provincial Institute of Architects from about 1931 to 1938. He was responsible for many of Kuala Lumpur's greatest Art Deco structures, including the Clock Tower, OCBC Building, and Oriental Building. He also designed the Anglo-Oriental Building near Merdeka Square, which is now known as Wisma Ekran; the Lee Rubber Building, on Jalan Tun H. S. Lee; the Rubber Research Institute, on Jalan Ampang; and the Odeon Cinema, on Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman. Coltman died in Sussex, England at the age of 67 in 1961.
linked to asia
- Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS (6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Singapore. He was also heavily involved in the conquestof the Indonesian island of Java from Dutch and French military forces during the Napoleonic Wars and contributed to the expansion of the British Empire. He was also an amateur writer and wrote a book titled The History of Java (1817).Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Port Morant, Jamaica, to Captain Benjamin Raffles (d. June 1797) and Anne Raffles (née Lyde). His father was a Yorkshireman who had a burgeoning family and little luck in the West Indies trade during the American Revolution, sending the family into debt. The little money the family had went into schooling Raffles. He attended a boarding school. In 1795, at the age of 14, Raffles started working as a clerk in London for the British East India Company, the trading company that shaped many of Britain's overseas conquests. In 1805 he was sent to what is now Penang in the country of Malaysia, then called the Prince of Wales Island, starting his long association with Southeast Asia. He started with a post under the Honourable Philip Dundas, the Governor of Penang. He was appointed assistant secretary to the new Governor of Penang in 1805 and married Olivia Mariamne Devenish, a widow who was formerly married to Jacob Cassivelaun Fancourt, an assistant surgeon in Madras who had died in 1800. At this time he also made the acquaintance of Thomas Otho Travers, who would accompany him for the next twenty years.
- hkej 18aug17 shum article
- 英國前自由民主黨黨魁阿什當男爵（Lord Ashdown）昨繼續訪港行程，中午出席午餐會發表演說談及香港最新情況，有份出席午餐會的前立法會議員劉慧卿於答問環節，問及阿什當會否為持有BNO的港人爭取包括居英權等更多保障，阿什當沒有正面回應會否爭取，只稱現時特區護照已相當方便，但認為若香港情況變得很差的時候，英國應提供保障予BNO持有人。他並稱，會利用自己在國會的影響力，令英國政府確保對香港的承諾不變。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20171129/00176_034.html
- scmp remember a day on a 22aug1979 report - Britain’s trade minister John Nott, declared war on red tape to fight waste and ease the administrative burden of company executives. He said he had asked a management consultancy firm to look into the situation and reduce as much as possible the number of forms and questionnaires regularly issued by his ministry.https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3023890/recycled-pacemakers-sales-mind-bending-drug-and-disco
- scmp remember a day on a 25oct1979 report The chairman of the Anglo-Hong Kong Parliamentary Group, Sir Paul Bryan, said he would fight to alter the new UK Immigration Act, if it discriminated against Hong Kong citizens. A white paper on the act, to be published in November that year, had drawn speculative criticism from many Hong Kong residents who accused Britain of not responding to public concerns over issues such as speeding up the granting of work permits.https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3034411/burglary-suspect-chops-toe-defiance-beijings-bad-boys-and
china linked/been to china
- George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, CH, PC (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015, having represented North West Hampshire from 1997 and Ealing Acton prior to that. He has served in Cabinet on three occasions: as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997; as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012;[1] and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2012 to 2014. He stood down from the Commons at the 2015 election and was created a life peer,[2] as Baron Young of Cookham, of Cookham in the Royal County of Berkshire, on 29 September 2015.[3] He sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords, where he served as a junior whip from July 2016 to August 2019.[4] Young resigned from this position on 29 August in protest at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament.Young was born in Oxford in 1941 into a prominent English family, the elder son of Sir George Peregrine "Gerry" Young, 5th Baronet CMG and Elisabeth Knatchbull-Hugessen. His paternal ancestors include Admiral Sir George Young, an admiral in the Royal Navy and father of the first Baronet; civil servant Sir William Mackworth Young; colonial governors Sir Hubert Winthrop Young and Sir Mark Aitchison Young; mountaineer Geoffrey Winthrop Young, and Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet. Sir Brian Young (1922–2017), director-general of the Independent Television Authority, was his cousin. Young's father was a diplomat who met Elisabeth while serving in Beijing (where her father, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, was British Ambassador). Upon his father's death in 1960, George succeeded to the baronetcycreated in 1813.[5] Young is a great-great-grandson of Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp.
Chinese
- Herbert Tsangtse "Burt" Kwouk, OBE (/kwɒk/ KWOK; Chinese: 郭弼; 18 July 1930 – 24 May 2016) was a British actor, known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films. Kwouk was born in Warrington,[1][2] Cheshire but was brought up in Shanghai. Between the ages of 12 and 16 he attended the Jesuit Mission School there, which he described as "the Far East equivalent of Eton".[1] He left China in 1947 when his Chinese parents returned to Britain and was then sent to the United States to complete his education.[3] In 1953 he graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.[4] The Kwouk family fortune had been lost in the 1949 revolution and in 1954 he came back to Britain. In the 2011 New Year Honours List, Burt Kwouk was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama.
- Nat Wei
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2015-03/02/content_19693792.htm Since entering the House of Lords in 2010 Wei has led business delegations from the UK to China to help cement bilateral business relations. Last year he led a healthcare delegation of 10 UK businesses and organizations to Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Changzhou, Chengdu, Zhengzhou and Huai'an in Jiangsu province. Wei also helped to build regional links between China and Manchester, a city in northwest England. Wei was commissioned to write a report on how Manchester can best engage with China, which was published in 2012. The Wei report suggested some approaches including the establishment of a Manchester-China Forum. The local government considered it a good idea and subsequently appointed Charlie Cornish of Manchester Airport City to be its chair. Wei said that north England has great potential to host Chinese investment and business expansions because there is tremendous value in the region due to the availability of land and more affordable quality of living. He said as cities away from London start to receive more devolved powers they would develop more imaginative ideas for investment with incoming investors. "The north of England is seeing a resurgence, from Greater Manchester to Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham," Wei said. Wei said he was particularly excited to see the development of trade between the UK and China, which he believes can build world-class companies that go global. "The key will be for business leaders on both sides to take a strategic approach and integrate both Chinese and British culture and talent at all levels whether based in the UK or in China," he said. As the son of Hong Kong-born parents who immigrated to Britain, Wei is also very active in the British Chinese community and hopes to help ethnic Chinese candidates stand for the British election this year.
- https://m.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/a.224486677751110.1073741827.224484584417986/457049581161484/?type=3&theater 英國雅適士郡東南部華人聯誼會會
長羅國輝（Tony Kwok Fai Law）在今年英女王元旦授勳上 榜上有名。他因為協助數千中國新 移民在英國安居，以及在過去30 年在雅適士華人聯誼會的社區工作 獲得肯定，而獲授員佐勳章(MB E)榮銜。59歲的羅國輝家住雅適士郡(S outhend)Thorpe Bay。雅適士郡也是英國多華人 聚居的地區之一，有2千多名華人 。他服務當地社區30年，目前是 華人會會長。羅國輝對中國新移民提供援助，令 很多不懂英語的新移民能安頓下來 。工作包括幫助他們填寫租務合約 ，回覆醫院有關預約信件。他同時 為有需要的家庭在學校家長會中任 翻譯。他說，對於獲得MBE榮銜感到很 意外。但獲頒如此尊貴的獎勵感到 榮幸。「我從未想過自己的名字會 列入英女王授勳名單內，但很高興 獲得此榮耀。」
他在1974年與父母從香港移居英國，當時他只有17歲。他的雙 親目前已經92歲。他入讀South East Essex College，然後進入Sou thend College of Technology求學，再在 布里斯托理工學院取得工業管理學 位。在雅適士的Hadleigh 公司Agripharm工作了一 段時間後，他自己創業，設立了化 學原材料企業Ananda Commodities。
羅國輝於2007年出任英國雅適士郡東南部華人聯誼會會長。
- https://www.facebook.com/singtaodailyeu/photos/pcb.499344626931979/499342736932168/?type=3&theater 英國地方選舉即將於5月5日(周四)舉行，除了倫敦巿長選舉外，今年另一值得華人關注的，是全英共有至少七名華裔候選人，參加由倫敦、伯明翰、曼城以至威爾斯等城巿或地區，由國民議會以至區議會的各級選舉，顯見參選華人的熱誠和經驗有長足發展迹象。綜觀今次七名華裔候選人，包羅參選經驗較豐富以至新進初試蹄聲者，雖或面對不同程度的對手或長期佔優政黨勢力，都在積極進行拉票和為從政爭取經驗。另一特點是保守黨佔去六人，相信是因華人與該黨的政綱理念較近而有較多支持者，以及保守黨華人之友近年增進了在黨內的影響和助力有關。本期專題特作選前綜合介紹和分析並提供各候選人勝算機會估計給選民投票參考。
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- stephen perry, 48 club, london export corporation
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