Ellis Kadoorie
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Sir Ellis Kadoorie
Ellis Kadoorie arrived in Shanghai from Bombay in 1880 as an employee of the Iraqi Jewish firm David Sassoon & Sons. Within a few years he had accumulated large sums of money and had gone into business on his own account, with companies in both Shanghai and Hong Kong. Over the next two decades, the Kadoorie brothers made their fortunes, achieving success in banking, rubber plantations, electric power utilities and real estate, and gaining a major share-holding in Hong Kong Hotels Limited.
Biography and knighthood
Sir Ellis was knighted in 1917. His Iraqi Jewish father moved to British India before Ellis immigrated to Hong Kong.[citation needed]
Schools
In the 1910s, Sir Ellis founded several schools in China, among them are Sir Ellis Kadoorie School in Hong Kong, and Shanghai Yucai High School.[1]
Death
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Sir Ellis died and was buried in Hong Kong on 24 February 1922. He is buried in the Jewish Cemetery.
According to his
Eventually it was decided to build two separate agricultural schools in Palestine – The Kadoorie Agricultural High School which was built in the Lower Galilee for the Jewish population, and another, now known as Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie, in Tulkarm for the Arabs.
Sir Ellis Kadoorie School is a primary school in Hong Kong founded in 1891 (as The Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians) and added a secondary school in 1980.[2]
See also
References
- ^ [1]Archived 25 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine"
- ^ "School Vision and School Mission | Sir Ellis Kadoorie (S) Primary School". sekps.edu.hk. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
External links
Media related to Ellis Kadoorie at Wikimedia Commons