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in 1918. After he graduated in medicine in 1924, he went abroad for further study in Vienna and London, where he obtained the
Diploma in Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery and Diploma in Laryngology and Otology. He returned to Hong Kong to practise with those specialist qualifications. He was
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Federation from 1961 to 1966. He was also founding chairman the Hong Kong Management Association from 1960 and 1969, as well as honorary president of a number of unions or associations of manufacturers. He was appointed the first chairman of the
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for three years as lecturer in ophthalmology. He was also member of the
Interim Committee which operated for the first few months after the British restoration of Hong Kong from the Japanese from 1946 to 1947. He was subsequently appointed by the Chancellor to succeed Sir
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Chau served as chairman on some community institutions such as the Hong Kong
Settlers Housing Corporation, a builder of low-cost residential cottages and flats, the Hong Kong Model Housing Society, as well as services at the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association, the
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when it was first established in 1966. In 1967, he established the Sir Sik-nin Chau
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in Hong Kong from 1953 to 1959. Chau was honoured with the
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522:"前任本港兩局議員 周錫年爵士逝世".
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133:Mark Young
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692:R. C. Lee
364:Biography
354:Executive
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178:Hong Kong
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