10 Facts About Ho Fook

Ho Fook, alias Ho Chak-sang, JP, was a prominent Hong Kong Eurasian compradore and philanthropist.

Ho Fook succeeded his brother as the chief compradore of the firm in 1900 and his younger half brother Ho Kom-tong became his assistant.

Ho Fook was appointed many public offices as the leader of the Chinese community.

Ho Fook was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1892 and was appointed to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1917 as one of the representatives of the Chinese community on retirement of Wei Yuk and served until 1921.

Ho Fook was member of the District Watchmen's Committee, member of the Chinese Permanent Cemetery Committee, the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee, advisory committee of the Tung Wah Hospital and Po Leung Kuk, the two most prominent charitable organisations in the colony.

Ho Fook was the managing director of the local newspaper Hongkong Telegraph.

Ho Fook served as vice-president of the Ellis Kadoorie Chinese School Society and member of the Court of the University of Hong Kong.

Ho Fook's father was a man of Jewish Dutch ancestry named Charles Henri Maurice Bosman and his mother was Madame Sze, a local woman of Bao'an heritage.

Ho Fook had thirteen sons and five of them survived when Ho Fook died.

One of Ho Fook's grandsons, Stanley Ho, was a casino and shipping magnate.