Wilson Wang
Hong Kong businessman (1918–1998)
Wilson Wang Tze-sam, OBE, JP (Chinese: 王澤森; 27 April 1918 – 1998) was a Hong Kong businessman and an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
Biography
Wang was born on 27 April 1918 in Swatow, China. He was educated at the St. Stephen's College, Hong Kong and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Hong Kong in 1941. He married Li Ming-tsun in 1946 at Chungking and had four sons.
He was first awarded Badge of Honour in 1958 and unofficial Justice of the Peace in 1961. In the same year, he was appointed member of the Urban Council and the Housing Authority. He had also sat on the Library Advisory Committee since 1961. Other public positions he held included member of the Working Party on the School Medical Service in 1962, member of the Board of Education from 1958 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1965, member of the School Medical Service Board in 1963, member of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Committee in 1962, and member of the Working Party of the Education Commission in 1964. He was appointed unofficial member of the Legislative Council in 1968, in which he served until 1970 when he resigned and was succeeded by barrister Kenneth Lo Tak-cheung.
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