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HONG KONG BACKGROUND BRIEF

PERSONALITY NOTES, ADDRESSES AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS

1. SENIOR HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

His Excellency the Governor of Hong kong

SIR DAVID WILSON KCMG, Government House 5-232031

Governor of Hong Kong since April 1987. Born 1935. Educated Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire and Keeble College, Oxford. Commissioned Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) 1953. Joined Foreign Service 1958. Assigned to full-time Chinese language studies at Hong Kong University 1960. Peking 1963. Resigned and became Executive Editor of China Quarterly 1968. Rejoined Diplomatic Service in 1974. Political Adviser Hong Kong 1977. Head of Southern European Department, FCO 1981. Assistant Under Secretary of State (Asia) FCO 1984. Married to Natasha, two sons.

SIR T L YANG, Supreme Court, 38 Queensway, Hong Kong

5-8254601

Chief Justice since 14 March 1988.

Born in China on 30 June 1929. He was educated at Soochow

University Law School, Shanghai; University college, London, and Gray's Inn. After being admitted as a Barrister in

London in 1954, he joined the Hong Kong Government as a Magistrate in 1956. Subsequently, he became a Senior Magistrate in 1963, a District Judge in 1968, a Judge of the

High Court in 1975, a Justice of Appeal in 1980 and a Vice-President of the Appeal Court in 1987. He is married with two sons.

Sir T L Yang shows a wide interest in matters outside his work and has taken part in a variety of community and

charitable activities.

He has headed a number of committees

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