TNAG-0616-FCO40-764-Policy-of-UK-on-status-of-Hong-Kong-1977 — Page 132

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NEWBIGGING JP

Born 1934. Chairman and Senior Managing Director, Jardine Mathieson & Co Ltd. Chairman of Hong Kong Land Co Ltd, Textile Alliance Ltd

and Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

SENIOR BRITISH TRADE COMMISSIONER

Mr Derek Maxwell MARCH OBE

FO 1951. Bonn 1955.

Vice-Consul,

Born 1930. HM Forces 1949-51. Hanover 1957. Assistant Trade Commissioner Salisbury, 1959. Consul and Second Secretary (Commercial) Dakar, 1962. First Secretary FO, 1964. Rawalpindi, 1968. Peking, 1971. FCO, 1974. Counsellor and seconded to Department of Trade 1975. Appointed Senior British Trade Commissioner Hong Kong 1977.

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