The Lee Hau Shik (H. S. Lee) Private Papers

Tun Sir (Colonel) Henry H.S. Lee (1901 - 1988), Politician/tin miner/banker

Henry Lee Hau Shik (H.S. Lee) was born in Hong Kong on 19th November, 1901. He started his education at Canton Christian College, in Guangdong Province where his ancestral home in the Xinyi district was located.  He went on to Queen’s College in Hong Kong and upon graduation from the college, he proceeded to University College, London University in the United Kingdom where he took law.  He continued on to St John’s College, Cambridge, where he obtained his degree of B.A. in Economics and Law in 1923 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society.

Upon his return to Hong Kong, H.S. Lee joined the P&O Bank after declining a post in the Chinese Government service. In 1924, he visited Malaya and was persuaded to acquire a tin mine in Kepong, Selangor and subsequently.... Click here to read more.

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