Wei Yuk
Hong Kong businessman
Sir Boshan Wei Yuk (Chinese: 韋寶珊; pinyin: Wéi Bǎoshān; 1849 – 16 December 1921) was a prominent Hong Kong businessman and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
Early life, education, and business career
Wei was born in Hong Kong in 1849, the son of Wei Kwong (1825–1879), an adopted son of an American missionary, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, at the age of 13; and became the head compradore of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China in 1857. His brothers Wei An and Wei Pei were a solicitor and barrister respectively. He married the eldest daughter of Wong Shing, the second Chinese member to be appointed to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1892. Wei received classic Chinese private education and studied at the Government Central School (today known as Queen's College).
Wei was one of the first Chinese to go abroad for Western Education. He proceeded to England in 1867 where he entered the Leicester Stoneygate School. He went to Scotland in 1868 and studied at the Dollar Academy for four years. He returned to Hong Kong after a European tour in 1872.
Wei entered the service of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China.
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