Ian Robert Anderson MacCallum (1931 – 5 April 2013) was a British solicitor and politician in Hong Kong. MacCallum was a soldier at the

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before he was admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales in 1953 and then of Hong Kong in 1956. He started his practice from 1956 to 1994 in Hong Kong. He was the senior partner of the leading law firm Wilkinson & Grist. He served in many public offices, including the membership of the council from 1969, vice-president in 1973, president in 1975 and 1976 and the membership Roll of Honour of the Law Society of Hong Kong and a core member of the

Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC; zh, t=香港總商會) was founded on 29 May 1861, and is the oldest and one of the largest business organizations in Hong Kong. It has around 4,000 corporate members, who combined employ aroun ...

. MacCallum was also Chairman of the Hong Kong Branch of Civil Rights Group Justice in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1985 he was appointed to the

Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Basic Law Consultative Committee (BLCC; 香港基本法諮詢委員會) was an official body established in 1985 to canvass views in Hong Kong on the drafts of the Hong Kong Basic Law. Background The f ...

, a consultative committee for the drafting of the

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. He was part of the conservative wing

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in the committee resisting the faster pace of democratisation. He initially intended to run in the 1988 Legislative Council election for the First Commercial

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elected by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. However, he was persuaded by the Group of 89 to make way for Veronica Wu, daughter-in-law of tycoon Cha Chi-ming, who eventually lost to

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. MacCallum also served in voluntary positions in the

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, the Methodist International Church, St. James’ Settlement, Hong Kong Bible Society and Friends of Cambridge University Prince Philip Scholarships and Honorary Permanent President of the HKBU Foundation. He was the vice-chairman and a founding trustee of the Croucher Foundation appointed by Noel Croucher. MacCallum died on 5 April 2013, aged 82.

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