Percy Hobson Holyoak
| Percy Hobson Holyoak | |
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| Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong | |
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In office 6 May 1920 – 1920 |
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| Appointed by | Sir R. E. Stubbs |
| Preceded by | C. P. Chater |
| Succeeded by | C. P. Chater |
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In office 29 June 1921 – 30 October 1921 |
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| Appointed by | Sir R. E. Stubbs |
| Preceded by | E. H. Sharp |
| Succeeded by | E. H. Sharp |
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In office 2 April 1924 – 1924 |
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| Appointed by | Sir R. E. Stubbs |
| Preceded by | C. P. Chater |
| Succeeded by | C. P. Chater |
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In office 29 August 1924 – 1926 |
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| Appointed by | Sir F. H. May |
| Preceded by | A. G. Stephen |
| Succeeded by | A. O. Lang |
| Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
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In office 16 December 1915 – 18 March 1926 |
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| Appointed by | Sir F. H. May |
| Preceded by | E. A. Hewett |
| Succeeded by | D. G. M. Bernard |
| Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation | |
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In office February 1918 – February 1919 |
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| Preceded by | S. H. Dodwell |
| Succeeded by | J. A. Plummer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1874 Chesham-Bois, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Died | 25 May 1926 London, England |
| Spouse(s) | Neilie Gertude Cowper |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Percy Hobson Holyoak (1874 – 25 May 1926) was a British businessman in Hong Kong and member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council of Hong Kong.
Percy Hobson Holyoak was the son of the Rev. T. H. Holyoak of Chesham-Bois, Buckinghamshire, England. He first arrived in Far East as a member of the Reiss & Co., a well-known Manchester trading firm in Hong Kong since 1864. He moved to Hong Kong in 1899 and was in charge of the Hong Kong office as a managing partner. He subsequently took over the firm with P. W. Massey when it suffered in the commercial slump in 1921 and 1922 and altered the name to Holyoak, Massey, & Co. with Holyoak as the senior partner.
Holyoak also held positions in many leading public companies. Among others, he was the chairman of the board of directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for three times, chairman of the board of directors of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company, Ltd., chairman of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, and director of the Hongkong Telephone Company.
Holyoak was the chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in from 1917 to 1918 and 1920 to 1921. He was nominated as unofficial member of the Legislative Council as a representative of the chamber on the death of E. A. Hewett in 1915 and later on was appointed to the Executive Council for various times. Despite being a large contributor to the raising funds during the First World War, in early 1917 Holyoak moved in the Legislative Council to exclude German merchants from the colony for ten years, mandated by the Chamber of Commerce. In 1919, he and Henry Pollock formed the Constitutional Reform Association of Hong Kong to demand London for a further representation in the colonial legislature.
He also associated with the Chinese community in public work such as his chairmanship of the Joint Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce which supervised the arrangements for the Hong Kong section of the Wembley Exhibition.
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