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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Lord Kadoorie
| honorific_suffix = [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]]
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| birth_date = 2 June 1899
| birth_place = Hong Kong
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| death_place = Hong Kong
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| occupation = industrialist hotelier philanthropist
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| children = [[Michael Kadoorie]] Rita Kadoorie
| spouse = Muriel Gubbay
| parents = Laura Mocatta Kadoorie Sir [[Elly Kadoorie]]
| family = [[Horace Kadoorie]] (brother) [[Ellis Kadoorie]] (uncle)
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'''Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie''', [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (2 June 1899 – 25 August 1993) was a [[Hong Kong]] [[industrialist]], [[hotelier]], photographer<ref>{{cite web

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| title =LORD KADOORIE'S PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION
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| access-date = 30 September 2020
| quote = }} "''Lord Lawrence Kadoorie was an avid photographer. This gallery presents a precious collection of photos he took in different locations in Hong Kong in the 1950s''."

</ref> and philanthropist.

==Biography==
Lawrence Kadoorie was born to a [[Mizrahi Jewish]] family, the older of sons of Laura (née Mocatta) and Sir [[Elly Kadoorie]].<ref name=HaaretzSurvivor>[http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/this-day-in-jewish-history/.premium-1.612235 Haaretz: "This Day in Jewish History: A WWII Survivor Who Built Hong Kong Dies – Lawrence Kadoorie rose from a Japanese prison camp to restore his family's fortunes and help forge Hong Kong's future with China" by David B. Green] 25 August 2014</ref> His brother, [[Horace Kadoorie]] (1902–1995), would become his partner in the family business.<ref name=HaaretzSurvivor />

In 1981, Lawrence Kadoorie became the first Hong Kong born person to be elevated to the [[peer of the realm|peerage]] as a life peer with the title and style of Baron, and to have become a member of the [[House of Lords]]. <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/26/obituaries/lawrence-kadoorie-94-is-dead-a-leader-in-hong-kong-g-growth.html|title=Lawrence Kadoorie, 94, Is Dead; A Leader in Hong Kong'g Growth|last=AP|date=26 August 1993|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=10 March 2018}}</ref>

His uncle was Sir [[Ellis Kadoorie]]. His family were originally [[Mizrahi Jews]] from [[Baghdad]] who later migrated to [[Bombay]] (Mumbai), India in the mid-eighteenth century. He was educated at [[Clifton College]].<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p326: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref> Kadoorie and his brother Sir [[Horace Kadoorie]] worked for [[Victor Sassoon]] during the 1920s and 1930s, and managed [[Peace Hotel|his famous Shanghai hotel]]. They also worked for their father Sir [[Elly Kadoorie]].

[[File:Lord kadoorie.jpg|thumb|left|Graves of Lawrence Kadoorie and his wife, Muriel, in the [[Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery, Hong Kong|Jewish Cemetery]] in Hong Kong]]

==Awards and philanthropy==
Kadoorie was made a [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1970,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=44999 |date=1 January 1970 |page=19 |supp=y}}</ref> [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1974<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=46366 |date=8 October 1974 |page=8535}}</ref> and created '''Baron Kadoorie''', of [[Kowloon]] in Hong Kong and of the [[City of Westminster]] on 22 September 1981<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=48746 |date=25 September 1981 |page=12174}}</ref> for his philanthropic work throughout the UK and Hong Kong.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite web |url=http://www3.hku.hk/hongrads/index.php/archive/graduate_detail/62 |title=HKU Honorary Graduates – Graduate Detail |accessdate=3 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928122658/http://www3.hku.hk/hongrads/index.php/archive/graduate_detail/62 |archivedate=28 September 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Kadoorie and his brother, Horace, both received the [[Magsaysay Award]] for public service in 1962. They were also appointed [[Legion of Honour|Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur]] by the [[Cabinet of France|French government]].<ref name="autogenerated1"/> He also gave money to the [[Kahal Kadosh Mekor Haim]] (Holy Community Fountain of Life) to finish the construction of the [[Kadoorie Synagogue]] for the [[Anusim]]/[[Marranos]] in [[Oporto]], Portugal.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

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|escutcheon = Per fess Gules and Vert in chief a flower of Bauhinia Blakeana and the Chinese character denoting double happines Or and in base a demi Bengal tiger (felis tigris) couped guardant Proper gorged with a collar gemel Sable between the paws a cinquefoil Gules.
|crest = A candlestick of seven branches Or between two cinquefoils Gules.
|supporters = On either side a Chinese unicorn Proper rampant on the outer slope of a steep mount with a shere inner face Vert growing therefrom a Bauhinia Blakeana flower Gold and between the mounts a waterway barry wavy of four Argent and Azure.
|motto = Adhere And Prosper <ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=1985}}</ref>}}

==Photography==

Kadoorie was an enthusiastic amateur photographer, his photographs documented many aspects of the city and rural life of average Hongkongers in the 1950s. He took a [[slice of life]] approach on photography, regularly carried a camera with him as he went about daily life.<ref> {{cite web
| url =https://hongkongfp.com/2017/09/30/hkfp-lens-photographs-hong-kong-1950s-taken-industrialist-lord-lawrence-kadoorie/
| title =HKFP Lens: Photographs of Hong Kong in the 1950s taken by industrialist Lord Lawrence Kadoorie
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| date =30 September 2017
| website =hongkongfp.com
| publisher =[[Hong Kong Free Press]]
| access-date =30 September 2020

| quote = }}"...he was also a keen amateur photographer, and regularly carried a camera with him as he went about daily life." </ref> His photographs covered streetscape and landscape, pedestrian, [[Star Ferry|ferry]] commuters, labour at work, farmers with their live stock, [[hawkers in Hong Kong|hawkers]] and many other aspects of the old Hong Kong.<ref>{{Cite news|title=A snapshot of old Hong Kong|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-41504305|access-date=2021-06-09}}</ref> His photograph collection was preserved by the Hong Kong Heritage Project,<ref>{{cite web

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| publisher = The Hong Kong Heritage Project
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| quote = }} </ref> and was featured in photography exhibition "Eye of Hong Kong" in 2017. <ref>[https://www.hongkongheritage.org/Pages/Exhibition.aspx?post=511 The Hong Kong Heritage Project Exhibition - Eye on Hong Kong] </ref>

==Personal life==
In 1938, Kadoorie married Muriel Gubbay, the daughter of Hebrew scholar David Sassoon Gubbay.<ref name=JATObit>[http://jewishtimesasia.org/contributed-articles-topmenu-39/446-2012-02/2208-celebration-of-life-muriel-the-lady-kadoorie-1915-2011 Jewish Times Asia: "Celebration of Life Muriel, The Lady Kadoorie 1915 – 2011"] retrieved 30 April 2013</ref> They had two children: a son, [[Michael Kadoorie]] (heir to the family business) and a daughter Rita (who married a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] accountant).<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-kadoorie-1463499.html Independent: "Obituary: Lord Kadoorie" by DEREK DAVIES] 26 August 1993</ref> He died on 25 August 1993 and is buried in the [[Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery, Hong Kong|Jewish Cemetery]] in [[Happy Valley, Hong Kong]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/26/obituaries/lawrence-kadoorie-94-is-dead-a-leader-in-hong-kong-g-growth.html |title=Lawrence Kadoorie, 94, Is Dead; A Leader in Hong Kong's Growth – New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=26 August 1993 |accessdate=3 February 2011}}</ref> His widow, Muriel, died in Hong Kong on 5 December 2011.<ref name=JATObit />

==See also==
*[[Kadoorie family]]
*[[Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Association]]

==References==
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