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Sir Horace Kadoorie,
CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(28 September 1902 – 22 April 1995) was an industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist.


Early life and education

In 1913–14, he spent a year at
Clifton College ''The spirit nourishes within'' , established = 160 years ago , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent boarding and day school , religion = Christian , president = , head_label = Head of College , hea ...
and was a member of Polacks House; a boarding house solely for Jewish boys at Clifton.


Personal life

His father was Sir Elly Kadoorie, and his uncle, Sir
Ellis Kadoorie Sir Ellis Kadoorie CBE (1865–1922) was a Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was a member of the wealthy Baghdadian Kadoorie family that had large business interests in the Far East. His brother was Sir Elly Kadoorie, and his nephew w ...
. His family were originally Iraqi
Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...
s from
Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
who later migrated to
Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-m ...
, British Raj India in the mid-18th century. Kadoorie and his brother Sir Lawrence Kadoorie worked for
Victor Sassoon Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, (20 December 1881 – 13 August 1961) was a businessman and hotelier from the wealthy Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant and banking family. Biography Sir Ellice Victor Elias Sassoon was born 30 Decembe ...
during the 1920s and 1930s, and managed his Shanghai hotel. They also worked for their father, the industrialist Sir Elly Kadoorie. He and his brother formed an agricultural aid organisation that in the 1960s helped hundreds of thousands of peasants in rural areas of
Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
to become independent farmers. Kadoorie and his brother, Lawrence, both received the
Magsaysay Award The Ramon Magsaysay Award ( Filipino: ''Gawad Ramon Magsaysay'') is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic ideali ...
for public service in 1962. They were also appointed Chevaliers of the
Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
by the
French government The Government of France (French: ''Gouvernement français''), officially the Government of the French Republic (''Gouvernement de la République française'' ), exercises executive power in France. It is composed of the Prime Minister, who i ...
. The Nepal Government awarded him one of its highest honours, the
Gorkha Dakshin Bahu The Most Puissant Order of the Gorkha Dakshina Bahu ( ne, गोरखा दक्षिण बाहु; Order of the Gurkha Right Arm ''or Hand'') was an order of knighthood of Nepal. It was one of the highest honors given traditionally by the ...
(First Class) Award, for his work in helping Gurkha soldiers readjust to rural life after leaving the British military. Sir Horace Kadoorie died in Hong Kong on 22 April 1995. He was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Happy Valley, Hong Kong.


Philanthropy

Among Sir Horace's philanthropies was a school that became a haven for Jewish refugee children in
Shanghai ghetto The Shanghai Ghetto, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkew district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai (the ghetto was located in the southern Hongkou and southwes ...
.


See also

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Kadoorie family The Kadoorie family or "Khedouri" ( he, כדורי, ar, خضوري) are a wealthy Hong Kong-based family, originally Mizrahi Jews from Baghdad, Iraq. From the mid-18th century they were established in Mumbai, British Raj India becoming one of t ...


References

1902 births 1995 deaths Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Hong Kong Jews Hong Kong people of Iraqi-Jewish descent Hong Kong philanthropists Jewish Chinese history Jewish Nepalese history Jewish philanthropists Horace Knights Bachelor Members of the Order of Gorkha Dakshina Bahu, First Class Mizrahi Jews People educated at Clifton College People from Baghdad Ramon Magsaysay Award winners 20th-century philanthropists {{HK-bio-stub