Prince Philip visited Hong Kong from March 7-9, 1959 shook hands with Mr. Hilton Cheong-Leen

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Prince Philip visited Hong Kong from March 7-9, 1959

Prince Philip visited Hong Kong from March 7 to March 9, 1959, arrived from Singapore aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia. During his first official trip to the city, the Duke of Edinburgh participated in a variety of public duties and civic engagements. 

Date picture taken
1959
Shows person / people
Tsun-nin CHAU (aka 周埈年爵士) [1893-1971]
Shows event(s)
1959 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visits Hong Kong

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Noted with thanks !  Mr. Hilton Cheong-Leen

( Standing between Mr. Hilton Cheong-Leen and Prince Philip, was Sir Tsun-nin CHAU (周埈年爵士). )

Hilton Cheong-Leen, CBE, JP (Chinese: 張有興; 6 August 1922 – 4 January 2022) was a Guyana-born Hong Kong politician and businessman. He is the longest uninterrupted serving elected officeholder in Hong Kong history as an elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong for 34 years from 1957 to 1991. He was also the first Chinese chairman of the council from 1981 to 1986. 

He had been a long-time chairman of the Hong Kong Civic Association, one of the two quasi-opposition political groups in the post-war Urban Council. From 1973 to 1979, he was appointed unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. 

From 1985 to 1988, he was again among the first elected members of the Legislative Council through Urban Council constituency in the first Legislative Council election in 1985.