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Sir Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn (28 July 1881 – 21 August 1943) was the chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from 1930 to 1943. He was the most powerful financier in the Far East in the 1930s, and took an important role in establishing Hong Kong dollar as the official currency of the colony. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in World War II, Grayburn was arrested for providing monetary and logistics aid to military prisoners and bank employees held hostage, imprisoned, and later died at Stanley Prison.

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  • Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn (en)
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  • Sir Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn (28 July 1881 – 21 August 1943) was the chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from 1930 to 1943. He was the most powerful financier in the Far East in the 1930s, and took an important role in establishing Hong Kong dollar as the official currency of the colony. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in World War II, Grayburn was arrested for providing monetary and logistics aid to military prisoners and bank employees held hostage, imprisoned, and later died at Stanley Prison. (en)
  • 祁禮賓爵士,JP(英語:Sir Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn,1881年7月28日-1943年8月21日),英國及香港銀行家,1930年至1943年間任香港上海滙豐銀行總司理,1941年7月獲港府委任為行政局非官守議員。 在1900年加入滙豐的祁禮賓曾先後在滙豐多個遠東分行任職,至1930年起出任總司理,任內參與檢討香港幣制和稅制,以及在1931年至1935年間負責統籌重建香港滙豐銀行總行大廈的工程。在1941年12月25日香港淪陷後,雖然滙豐總行早已安然遷到倫敦,但身在香港的祁禮賓落在日軍手上,並且被強迫清算滙豐在遠東餘下的資產。此外,在沒有保證金的情況下,他被要脅簽發大批滙豐紙幣,前後總值1.198億港元。 在1943年,祁禮賓被日方指控從事諜報,以及將金錢偷運入赤柱拘留營,結果於同年6月被判入赤柱監獄勞役三個月。祁禮賓在獄中受盡折磨,而且被關進籠子內,同年8月21日因營養不良病死於赤柱監獄內,不過亦有傳言指祁禮賓是被日軍虐待致死。 (zh)
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