Sir Cowperthwaite (1915 - 2006)

After 40 years of rapid economic growth, Hong Kong has successfully emerged from an entrepot in the Far East to a first class metropolitan. A unique geographical location, availability of intell...

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Born on April 25, 1915 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sir John Cowperthwaite was educated in Merchiston Castle School and majored in Classics at St. Andrews University and Christ's College (Cambridge). ...

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In 1961, the British government appointed Sir John Cowperthwaite as the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong. By that time, Hong Kong had successfully evolved from an entreport to a light industry ci...

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After leaving the government, Cowperthwaite was an advisor to Jardine Flemming & Co in Hong Kong until 1981. Then he retired to St. Andrews with his wife Sheila. For many years, he spent six mont...

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After Sir John Cowperthwaite's retirment as the Financial Secretary in 1971, his successors including Charles Philip Hadden-Cove and John Henry Bremridge basically followed Sir John's market orie...

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Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics "Yet that doesn't detract from the scale of Cowperthwaite's achievement. Whatever happens to Hong Kong in the future, the experience of this pa...

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April 25, 1915 Born in Scotland. Attended Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Scotland 1933 Studied Classics at the University of St. Andrews and Christ's College (Cambridge) before returning...

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