Kadoorie, Lawrence Kadoorie
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BARON, Hong Kong industrialist (b. June 2, 1899, Hong Kong—d. Aug. 25, 1993, Hong Kong), was one of the colony's last great taipans (businessmen of enormous power and influence) and the first native of Hong Kong to be awarded a British life peerage (1981). His father, Sir Elly Kadoorie, was a Jewish immigrant from Baghdad, now in Iraq, who made a fortune in hotels, transport, and electric power in Hong Kong and Shanghai but died in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. Lawrence and his brother, Horace, survived wartime internment and returned to reclaim the family's venerable Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon. Despite a further loss of assets in Shanghai when the Chinese Communist forces took control in 1949, the brothers built a business empire that included banking and textiles, as well as the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotel group and the New Territories Benevolent Society. The corporate centrepiece, however, was China Light and Power, Hong Kong's largest electric utility and, literally, the power behind much of the colony's economic growth. In 1985 Kadoorie negotiated a contract to build China's first nuclear power station. He retired as chairman in 1992.
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