G. S. Kennedy-Skipton

George Stacey Kennedy-Skipton (31 August 1898 – 1982) was an Irish Hong Kong politician, senior civil servant and teacher. He was accused of collaborating with the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. After the war, he ran for the Urban Council twice in 1952 and 1967 and was the secretary of the Labour Party of Hong Kong, a socialist self-government party.

Kennedy-Skipton was born on 31 August 1898 in Cheltenham, England and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. At 23 year old, he traveled from Liverpool to Hong Kong on the blue funnel liner SS Pyrrhus on 31 December 1921 and joined the cadet service of the Hong Kong colonial government. He had served various departments, including District Officer, Magistrate, Senior Assistant Treasurer, Food Controller from 1940 to 1941 and secretary of the Sanitary Board. He was also a senior officer in the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, in charge of the District Watch, labour affairs and Mui Tsai suppression. He was promoted Class 1 officer in January 1940 and was Chairman of the Urban Council in 1940.

He married Helen Tow, an American woman of Scandinavian descent who was born to a Quaker family in Iowa on 15 October 1892. The couple had two daughters, Anne Laetitia Daphne (b. 1930) and Enid Conolly (b. 1933). He had also a Chinese mistress and a son named Kimmy S. Kennedy-Skipton (later known as Henry). Before the Battle of Hong Kong where Hong Kong was fallen into Japanese hand in December 1941, Helen appealed to the Evacuation Advisory Committee against the compulsory evacuation order, which caused a heated exchange between Attorney General Sir Grenville Alabaster, Colonial Secretary Franklin Gimson and Kennedy-Skipton at the Prince's Building.

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