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was highly unstable due to the issue of Hong Kong's future change of sovereignty. As a member of the
Banking Consultative Committee and the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, Brown helped to stabilise the exchange rate. He was also director of the
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Charles Leonard Brown and Kathleen May Tizzard. He married Nachiko Sagawa in 1959; they have one son and two daughters. Brown was educated at the
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