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SIR CRAWFORD MUNKAY MACLEHOSE GBE KCMG KCVO

Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong

President of the Executive and Legislative Councils

Born 1917

Appointed to Colonial Service (Malaya) 1939

War Service with RNVR 1943-1946

Transferred to Foreign Service 1947

Political Adviser to Hong Kong 1959-1962

Head of Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office 1963

Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs 1965

Hi Ambassador, Saigon, 1967-1969

Ambassador, Copenhagen, 1969-1971

Appointed Governor of Hong Kong November 1971 (term extended

until April 1982)

Known as Sir Murray MacLehose (never uses the name Crawford)