Chow Shouson
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Shouson Chow LLD, JP |
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Sir Shouson in 1952
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| Unofficial Member of the Executive Council | |
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In office 9 July 1926 – 8 July 1936 |
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| Appointed by | Sir Cecil Clementi Sir William Peel |
| Preceded by | Paul Chater |
| Succeeded by | Robert Kotewall |
| Senior Chinese Unofficial Member | |
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In office 1922–1931 |
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| Preceded by | Lau Chu-pak |
| Succeeded by | Robert Kotewall |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 March 1861 Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong |
| Died | 23 January 1959 (aged 97) |
| Alma mater |
Queen's College, Hong Kong Winsted Local Grammar School |
Sir Shouson Chow (Chinese: 周壽臣爵士; 1861–1959), KBE, LLD, JP, also known as Chow Cheong-Ling (Chinese: 周長齡; pinyin: Zhou Changling), was a Hong Kong businessman. He had been a Qing Dynasty official and prominent in the Government of Hong Kong.
Chow was born in "Little Hong Kong", a village north of present-day Shouson Hill. "Little Hong Kong" was a walled village of a Chow lineage. His father was compradore of the Canton-based Canton and Hong Kong Steamship Company. His grandfather was the head of "Little Hong Kong", who helped Charles Elliot post the first official proclamation of Hong Kong Island in 1841. He had a son, named Chow Yat-Kwong.
Among the third group of Chinese students sponsored by the Qing government to the United States in the 1870s, Chow left China in 1874 and studied at Phillips Academy, Andover (class of 1880) and Columbia University. After his graduation he worked for the Qing government.
In 1881 he joined the Korean Customs Service under Yuan Shikai. Later he was the president of the China Merchant Steam Navigation Company of Tientsin from 1897 to 1903, and the managing director of the Peking-Mukden Railway between 1903 and 1907.
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