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- Sir Thomas Sutherland, GCMG (Chinese: 蘇石蘭 16 August 1834 – 1 January 1922) was a Scottish banker and politician, initially elected to represent the Liberal Party and then as a Liberal Unionist. He founded The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation which was the founding member of HSBC Group and directed the P&O Company.
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Sir Thomas Sutherland, GCMG (Chinese: 蘇石蘭 16 August 1834 – 1 January 1922) was a Scottish banker and politician, initially elected to represent the Liberal Party and then as a Liberal Unionist.
HSBC was founded by Thomas Sutherland, a young Scotsman working in Hong Kong for a large shipping firm. Local and foreign trade in Hong Kong and at ports in China and Japan had increased rapidly in the preceding few years, and Sutherland recognised that businesses needed better local banking facilities.
Thomas Sutherland (May 3, 1931 – July 22, 2016), [1] Dean of Agriculture at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad members near his Beirut home on June 9, 1985. [2]
Sir Thomas Sutherland, GCMG (Chinese: 蘇石蘭 16 August 1834 – 1 January 1922) was a Scottish banker and politician, initially elected to represent the Liberal Party and then as a Liberal Unionist.
Sir Thomas Sutherland sat for Greenock first as a liberal and then as a Liberal Unionist from 1881 to 1909. He was a member of the Load Line Commission which sat in 1882, and a member of the Royal Commission on the Financial Relations between Great Britain and Ireland.
Jul 25, 2016 · Robin Wright remembers Thomas Sutherland, a professor at American University in Beirut who was taken hostage by Hezbollah and held for six years.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is the founding member of HSBC. The new firm was the inspiration of a Scottish businessman, Thomas Sutherland. In 1864 he produced a prospectus for a locally-based bank to finance the increasing flow of commerce between Asia, Europe and North America.
