Financial Secretary (Hong Kong)
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Financial Secretary (Chinese: 財政司司長), often abbreviated as FS, is a position of the Government of Hong Kong. The FS assists the Chief Executive (Governor before the handover) in supervising the policy bureaux as directed by the CE, mostly finance and economy-related, and plays a key role in ensuring harmonisation in policy formulation and implementation. The FS is also responsible for delivering the annual budget at the Legislative Council.
Before 1940, the position was titled Colonial Treasurer.
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[edit] List of Colonial Treasurers before 1937
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| Name | Took office | Left office |
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| Edward Elmslie | 1842 | 1843 |
| Charles Edward Stewart | 1843 | 1844 |
| Robert Montgomery Martin | 1844 | 1847 |
| William Thomas Mercer | 1847 | 1854 |
| Robert Rienaecker | 1854 | 1857 |
| Frederick Henry Alexander Forth | 1857 | 1871 |
| Sir Cecil Clementi Smith PC GCMG | 1871 | 1879 |
| Sir James Russell CMG | 1879 | 1883 |
| Alfred Lister | 1883 | 1890 |
| Norman Gilbert Mitchell-Innes | 1891 | 1896 |
| Thomas Sercombe Smith | 1896 | 1898 |
| Alexander Macdonald Thomson | 1898 | 1918 |
| Charles McIlvaine Messer OBE | 1918 | 1931 |
| Edwin Taylor CMG | 1931 | 1937 |
- Robert Montgomery Martin (1844–1845)
- William Thomas Mercer (1845–54)[1]
- ? Ricnaecker (1854–56)[1]
- T.H. Forth (1856–62)[1]
- James Russell (1882)
- Alfred Lister (1882–1883)[2]
- H.E. Wodehouse (1883–90)[2]
- ? Mitchell-Innes (1891–93)[2]
- F.H. May (acting)[2]
- Norman Gilbert Mitchell-Innes (1890–1895)
- A. M. Thomson (acting) (1895–1897)
- T. Sercombe Smith (1897–1898)
- A. M. Thomson (1899–1918)
- C. McI. Messer (1918–1931)
- E. Taylors (1931–1937)
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[edit] List of Financial Secretaries between 1937 and 1997
- Sir Sydney Caine KCMG(1937–1940)
- Henry R. Butters (1940–1941)
- Sir Geoffrey Follows (1946–1951)
- Arthur Grenfell Clarke CMG (1952–1961)[4]
- Sir John James Cowperthwaite KBE CMG (1961–1971)
- Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave KBE CMG (1971–1981)
- Sir John Henry Bremridge KBE (1981–1986)
- Sir Piers Jacobs KBE (1986–1991)
- Sir Hamish Macleod KBE (1991–1995)
- Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen GBM KBE (Sept 1995- June 1997)
[edit] List of Financial Secretaries after 1997
| Name | Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen GBM, KBE | July 1, 1997 | April 30, 2001 |
| Antony Leung Kam-chung | May 1, 2001 | July 16, 2003 |
| Henry Tang Ying-yen | July 17, 2003 | June 30, 2007 |
| John Tsang Chun-wah | July 1, 2007 | Incumbent |
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c Endacott, G.B., A Biographical Sketch-book of Early Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1962, google books
- ^ a b c d sunzi.lib.hku.hk PDF
- ^ Boase, Frederic. 1897. 'Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memiors of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850, with an Index of the Most Interesting Matter'. Published by Netherton and Worth, For the author, 1897 Item notes: v.2 (page 772)[1] Download PDF text
- ^ London Gazette, 1 June 1953
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