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'''John Martin Rowlands''', [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ({{zh-t|羅能士}}; 20 July 1925 – 19 August 2004) was a British civil servant working in the [[Hong Kong government]] from 1952 to 1985. He was the [[Secretary for the Civil Service]] from 1978 to 1985 and official member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] from 1978 to 1984.<br />
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Rowlands was born in London on 20 July 1925 and graduated from the [[Charterhouse School]] and the [[Selwyn College, Cambridge]]. From 1943 to 1947, he was a Captain of the Royal Indian Artillery Field Regiment of the HQ XV [[Indian Corps]], HQ [[Allied Land Forces South East Asia]].<ref name="MR"/><br />
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Rowlands joined the Hong Kong government as a cadet in 1952. He served on various positions, including the Resettlement Department, New Territories Administration, [[Civil Aid Service]] and [[Urban Services Department]]. In 1966, he became the Deputy Director of Urban Services, Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary in 1968 and Deputy Secretary for Home Affairs in 1971. In 1974, he became the [[Director of Immigration]] in 1974 and dealt with the [[Touch Base Policy]] imposed in 1974, as well as the [[Vietnamese boat people]] crisis.<br />
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He was appointed [[Secretary for the Civil Service]] in 1978 and became an official member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]]. He dealt with the civil servants' strikes and localisation of the [[Hong Kong civil service]] during the transition period to the [[handover of Hong Kong]]. He was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in 1980.<ref name="MR">{{cite web|title=(John) Martin Rowlands, CBE (1925-2004)|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.people.dead/AdYZu83RTp8|work=Michael Rhodes }}</ref><br />
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He retired in 1985 and returned to Britain. He fought against cancer in his later life and died in London on 19 August 2004, aged 79.<ref name="obit">{{cite web|url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/40114/rowlands|title=ROWLANDS|work=Telegraph}}</ref><br />
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He married to Christiane Germaine Maeleine Lacheny and had children Diane and Noelle.<ref name="obit"/> He was a [[bird watching]] lover, which influenced his subordinate [[Donald Tsang]], the later [[Chief Executive of Hong Kong]].<ref>{{cite news|title=BIG SPENDER：誰趕走了家燕|newspaper=蘋果日報|date=2013-01-10|url=http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/financeestate/art/20130110/18128914}}</ref><br />
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