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Type of appointment

APPENDICES

Appendix XII

(Chapter 25: Constitution and Administration) Executive and Legislative Councils Executive Council

Names of members

on 1st January 1962

Remarks

(Presided over by the Governor)

OFFICIAL MEMBERS:

Ex officio His Excellency Lieutenant-General

Reginald Hackett HEWETSON, CB, CBE, DSO (Commander British Forces)

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The Honourable Claude Bramall

Burgess, CMG, OBE (Colonial Secretary)

The Honourable Maurice

HEENAN

(Acting Attorney General)

The Honourable Patrick

Cardinall Mason SEDGWICK (Acting Secretary for Chinese

Affairs)

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The Honourable John James

COWPERTHWAITE, OBE (Financial Secretary)

Nominated The Honourable David Ronald

HOLMES, MBE, MC, ED (District Commissioner,

New Territories)

Succeeded

Lieutenant-General

Sir Roderick William MCLEOD, KCB, CBE, on 5 December 1961

Mr Edmund Brinsley Teesdale, MC, acted as Colonial Secretary during the absence on leave of Mr BURGESS from 1 April to 1 July, and from 4 July to 30 September 1961, when Mr BURGESS assumed the office of Officer Administering the Government

Mr HEENAN appointed to act as Attorney General with effect from 27 November 1961, on the retirement of Mr A. RIDEHALGH, QC

Mr SEDGWICK appointed to act as Secretary for Chinese Affairs with effect from 6 November 1961, during the absence on leave of Mr John Crichton McDOUALL

Succeeded Mr Arthur Grenfell CLARKE, CMG, on 17 April 1961. Mr Michael Denys Arthur CLINTON, GM, acted as Financial Secretary during the absence on duty of Mr COWPERTHWAITE from 11 to 22 May, from 16 to 23 July, from 14 to 20 August and from 23 to 27 October 1961

Appointed provisionally in the place of Mr P. C. M. SEDGWICK with effect from 7 November 1961