Charles Henderson Ross

Charles Henderson Ross (23 July 1864 – 23 November 1919) was a Scottish businessman. He was the taipan of the Jardine, Matheson & Co. and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Ross was born on 23 July 1864. He was the son of Captain Horatio Ross of Rossie and Christian Henderson, who died 1892, daughter of Charles P. Henderson of Whittington Hall, Lancashire. He spent many years in the East, first in India and later in Tsientsin and Shanghai. He volunteered in during the Boxer Rebellion in Tsientsin under the command of General Alfred Gaselee, the commander of the British troops sent to the relief of Peking, and was awarded the Boxer medal with two bars. He also served in the Shanghai light horse and was the head of the old Hongkong mounted troop.

Ross joined the Jardine, Matheson & Co., the then biggest trading firm in the Far East. He moved to Hong Kong in 1910 was appointed by Henry Keswick as his substitute for all the purposes set out in a power of attorney of 5 September 1912. He was also member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong during Henry Keswick on leave from 1911 to 1913.

He was a Director of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the Peak Tramways, Chairman of the Whampoa Dock Co. and the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf Co., member of the Green Island Cement Co., Chairman of the Land Investment Agency and a Director of the Land Reclamation and the West Point Building Companies. He was particularly interested in various sugar, cotton, ice, insurance, and machinery companies for which Jardine Matheson were agents.

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