He was Accountant-General of excise in Scotland and a local politician, and elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh a number of times between 1725-1764. Educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh. Strongly anti Jacobite, he fought at Sheriffmuir against the Jacobite army of the Earl of Mar in 1715, and in 1745, he raised a …
A British Civil Servant and the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961-1971. He turned Hong Kong from one of the poorest places on Earth, to one of the wealthiest and most prosperous. “Low Taxes, lax employment laws, absence of government debt and free trade, are the pillars of the Hong Kong experience of Economic …
Educated at Aberdeen University, he began working life as a clerk in the London office of the P&O Steam Navigation Co, and later was promoted to Superintendent, assigning him to Hong Kong to manage the first Asian operation. In 1863 at the age of 29, he became the first Chairman of the Hong Kong and …