MRS. ELSIE ELLIOTT
After graduating from Durham University,
Mrs. Elliott taught in Halifax and Hull. She want to
China in 1947 where she worked with her husband as a
Plymouth Brethren Missionary. The Elliotts arrived in
Hong Kong from China in 1951.
Her marriage ended, Mrs. Elliott set up a Charity School and Welfare post in a squatter area in Kowloon and has been active in education in Hong Kong ever since. Her Mu Kuang schools now include a Govern- ment subsidised primary school in a housing estate and a secondary school in an industrial area which was built with an interest free loan.
Mrs. Elliott is deeply interested in social problems and became widely known in Hong Kong as a Champion of the Poor and a vociferous critic of the Hong Kong Govern- ment. She first became an elected member of the Urban
Council in 1963 and has been re-elected at the end of each term. She is a member of the Hong Kong Housing Authority, President of the Hong Kong Council of Women and Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Samaritans, and other organisations.
Mrs. Elliott's criticisms of the Hong Kong Govern- ment have frequently been ventilated in London through personal visits and contact with sympathetic MPs. She has been particularly critical of corruption in Hong Kong but generally unwilling or unable to produce the evidence to back her charges.
In August 1976 Mrs. Elliott received the Magsaysay Award (The Asian Nobel Prize) in recognition of her public service.