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Wu Tingfang
(also referred to as
Ng Choy
) was a
Chinese
diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and briefly as Acting
Premier
during the early years of the
Republic of China
. He studied at
St. Paul's College
in
Hong Kong
(a
British colony
at the time), where he learnt to read and write
English
, and later studied law in
England
at
University College London
and was
called to the bar
at
Lincoln's Inn
in 1876, becoming the first ethnically
Chinese
barrister
in history. After returning to Hong Kong, he became the first ethnically Chinese
unofficial member
of the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
.
Photo credit:
Frances Benjamin Johnston
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