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Tuesday, January 1, 1974
NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST
K.B. (Knight Bachelor)
The Honourable Mr. Justice Geoffrey Gould Briggs, Q.C.
Mr. Justice Briggs has been Chief Justice of Hong Kong since
May, 1973.
He was born in 1914 and was educated at Sherborne and Christ
Church, Oxford. Later he was called to the Bar of Gray's Inn.
Ile served in the Army during the Second World War, and joined
the Colonial Service in Nigeria as a Crown Counsel in 1947.
His distinguished service included appointments as Attorney General,
Eastern Region, Nigeria; Puisne Judge in Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei;
and Chief Justice of the Western Pacific, before he came to Hong Kong in
1965 as Puisne Judge. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1955.
K.B. (Knight Bachelor)
Dr. Lawrence Kadoorie, C.B.E.; Knight (Associate),
Order St. John; LL.D.; J.P.
Dr. Kadoorie was born in Hong Kong and is well known for his
charitable and welfare work, in particular in advancing the standards of
agriculture in the New Territories.
As Chairman of the China Light & Power Co. Ltd., he has been responsible
for the imaginative expansion of the company in anticipation of industrial
growth. Besides being Chairman of the family finance firm, he is also
Chairman of nine other major companies and Director of a number of trading,
banking, insurance and other companies, including the Cross-Harbour Tunnel
Company.
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