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'''Sir Horace Kadoorie''', [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (28 September 1902 – 22 April 1995) was an industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Horace Kadoorie, Philanthropist, 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/26/obituaries/horace-kadoorie-philanthropist-92.html |work=[[New York Times]] |date=April 26, 1995 |access-date=February 26, 2020}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
In 1913–14, he spent a year at [[Clifton College]]<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p327: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref> and was a member of Polacks House; a boarding house solely for Jewish boys at Clifton.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
His father was Sir [[Elly Kadoorie]], and his uncle, Sir [[Ellis Kadoorie]]. His family were originally Iraqi [[Jew]]s from [[Baghdad]] who later migrated to [[Bombay]], [[British Raj|British Raj India]] in the mid-18th century. Kadoorie and his brother Sir [[Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie|Lawrence Kadoorie]] worked for [[Victor Sassoon]] during the 1920s and 1930s, and managed his Shanghai hotel. They also worked for their father, the industrialist Sir Elly Kadoorie. He and his brother formed [[Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Association|an agricultural aid organisation]] that in the 1960s helped hundreds of thousands of peasants in rural areas of [[Hong Kong]] to become independent farmers. Kadoorie and his brother, Lawrence, both received the [[Magsaysay Award]] for public service in 1962. They were also appointed Chevaliers of the [[Legion d'Honneur|Légion d'honneur]] by the [[Cabinet of France|French government]]. The Nepal Government awarded him one of its highest honours, the [[Gorkha Dakshin Bahu]] (First Class) Award, for his work in helping Gurkha soldiers readjust to rural life after leaving the British military. Sir Horace Kadoorie died in Hong Kong on 22 April 1995. He was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in [[Happy Valley, Hong Kong|Happy Valley]], Hong Kong.<br />
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==Philanthropy==<br />
Among Sir Horace's philanthropies was a school that became a haven for Jewish refugee children in [[Shanghai ghetto]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Search Results|url=https://collections.ushmm.org/search/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Kadoorie+school&search_field=all_fields|access-date=2021-01-08|website=collections.ushmm.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Falbaum|first=Berl|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yqZtAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Horace+Kadoorie|title=Shanghai Remembered: Stories of Jews who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe|date=2005|publisher=Momentum Books|page=102|isbn=978-1-879094-73-4|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Cox|first=Billy|title=Sarasota Holocaust survivor Sigmund Tobias, who fled to China during WWII, featured on PBS|url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2020/09/19/sarasota-man-who-fled-china-during-wwii-featured-pbs-harbor-holocaust/5791167002/|access-date=2021-01-08|website=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Kadoorie family]]<br />
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