Hilton Cheong-Leen
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Hilton Cheong-Leen CBE, JP |
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| 張有興 | |
| Member of the Legislative Council | |
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In office 1 May 1973 – 31 August 1979 |
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| Appointed by | Sir Murray MacLehose |
| Preceded by | H. J. C. Browne |
| Succeeded by | Wong Po-yan |
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In office 1 October 1985 – 30 September 1988 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Elsie Tu |
| Constituency | Urban Council |
| Chairman of the Urban Council | |
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In office 1 April 1983 – 31 March 1986 |
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| Preceded by | A. de O. Sales |
| Succeeded by | H. M. G. Forsgate |
| Member of the Urban Council | |
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In office 1 April 1957 – 31 March 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Woo Pak-chuen |
| Succeeded by | San Stephen Wong |
| Constituency | Wan Chai (1983–91) |
| Chairman of the Hong Kong Civic Association | |
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In office 1968–2004 |
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| Preceded by | Woo Pak-chuen |
| Succeeded by | Lam Kwok-wah |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 August 1922 Georgetown, British Guyana (present-day Georgetown, Guyana) |
| Political party | Hong Kong Civic Association |
| Spouse(s) |
Pauline Chow (m. 1945–79) Nancy Gan (m. 1988) |
| Children | Reginald Cheong-Leen Susan Cheong-Leen Franklin Cheong-Leen Flora Cheong-Leen |
| Alma mater | Central High School La Salle College |
| Occupation | Businessman and politician |
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Hilton Cheong-Leen, CBE, JP (Chinese: 張有興; born 6 August 1922) is a Hong Kong politician and businessman. He was 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 became among the first elected member of the Legislative Council through Urban Council constituency in the first Legislative Council election in 1985.
Cheong-Leen was born in Georgetown, British Guyana on 6 August 1922 to a third-generation Chinese mother Elvira Cheong-Leen and father Edward Cheong-Leen who came through Hong Kong from China to join an uncle in Guyana. He was educated at the Central High School in Georgetown. He moved to Hong Kong when he was around nine and went to La Salle College in Hong Kong. He had worked in a law firm, an import and export company and as a banker after school.
After the fall of Hong Kong, he moved to unoccupied territory in China and lived in Kunming with his family and returned to Hong Kong after the war. He was a journalist for a period of time, having been the Hong Kong correspondent of Fox News and BBC. He was offered a job with the South China Morning Post but he followed his family's wish to go into commerce and set up his own import and export firm H. Cheong-Leen & Co. in 1945, importing gifts, premiums and watches.
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