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Counsel in 1952, he served as Acting Solicitor General and later as Acting
Attorney General on a number of occasions until his appointment as Solicitor
General in October, 1961. He was appointed Attorney General in December, 1961.
He has been an Official Justice of the Peace since 1949 and was appointed a
Queen's Counsel in 1962. A Past President of the New Zealand Society of Hong
Kong, he is President of the Hong Kong Lawn Tennis Association, Chairman of
the Standing Law Committee of the Legislative Council, Member of the Court
of the University of Hong Kong, Chairman of the Board of Review - Long Term
Prison Sentences, and Chairman of the Patents Awards Committee.
The Secretary For Chinese Affairs
The Hon. J.C. McDouall
Mr. John Crichton McDouall is Secretary for Chinese Affairs and an
Official Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils. He has also been
a Member of the Urban Council, of the Hong Kong Housing Authority, and of
certain of both those bodies' Select Committees, since 1957. Born in Tientsin,
North China, he was educated at Monkton Combe School and Jesus College,
Cambridge, and joined the Hong Kong Civil Service as a Cadet Officer in
July, 1934. After two years' language study in Canton he was appointed
Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs in August 1936, was appointed an
Official Justice of the Peace in May 1937, and became Chief Assistant
Secretary for Chinese Affairs the same year. He was seconded to the Hong
Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in December 1939, and was a prisoner of
war from Christmas Day 1941 to September 1945. On liberation he delayed
repatriation and was appointed Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs and
Assistant Labour Officer in the British Military Administration. He went on
vocation and study leave in April 1946 and obtained his Social Science Diploma
at Birmingham University. On his return in 1947 he set up and administered
Hong Kong's first Social Welfare Office (as it was then called); he was
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