Kenneth Albert Watson

Kenneth Albert Watson

Kenneth Albert Watson, OBE, JP was a British businessman in Hong Kong. He was an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

In the 1930s and 1940s on the eve of Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, he served in the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force.[1] Watson became a businessman. From 1964 to 1970, Watson was an unofficial member of the Legislative Council. He provoked the public on the issue of raising telephone fees in 1964 by saying that telephone service in Hong Kong was one of the cheapest in the world on April 29. Watson was a director of the Hong Kong Telephone Company with two Legislative Council members Kan Yuet-keung and Kwan Cho-yiu who also served at the Hong Kong Telephone.[2]

From July to September 1968, he was provisionally appointed to the Executive Council during the absence of J. A. Saunders.[3] In 1964, he was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his public services in Hong Kong.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Hong Kong Government Gazette No.63" (PDF). 17 January 1941: 61.
  2. ↑ Irwin, Lewis G. (2003). The Policy Analyst's Handbook: Rational Problem Solving in a Political World. M.E. Sharpe. p. 111.
  3. ↑ H.M. Stationery Office (1968). Hong Kong Annual Report. p. 355.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 43200. p. 24. 1 January 1964.
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