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周埈年（Sir Tsun-nin Chau，1893–1971）1893年10月22日在香港出生，祖籍廣東東莞，父親周少岐係立法局非官守議員，堂弟周錫年其後亦成為兩局議員；他係周少岐嘅第七子，六名兄長皆早夭，故有「七哥」之稱。他早年在聖士提反書院就讀，1910年赴英國牛津大學王后學院讀法律，1914年畢業並在中殿律師學院取得大律師資格，其後再於牛津取得文學碩士。返港後他執業數月便轉營家族金融及保險業務，曾任安全火燭保險公司及九龍置業按揭公司總經理、裕安輪船公司監督，後來出任廣東信託銀行董事長，以及油蔴地小輪、香港電燈、香港電話、中華百貨及香港船廠等公司董事。1922年他獲委任非官守太平紳士，1929年出任潔淨局（市政局前身）局紳，1931年12月獲港督貝璐委任為立法局非官守議員，同月宣誓填補周壽臣爵士退休後嘅空缺，係香港史上首位繼父親進入立法局嘅議員；1937年1月他接替曹善允博士，成為立法局首席華人非官守議員，1938年曾短暫出任行政局非官守議員，1939年12月退任立法局，由羅文錦接替，並於1938年獲CBE勳銜。香港重光後，他1945年獲臨時軍政府委任為副華民政務司，在九龍辦公，1946年5月民政恢復後重返立法局，並同時加入行政局任首席華人非官守議員；1950年出任立法局首席非官守議員，1953年榮休，1959年退任行政局首席非官守議員，英女皇伊利沙伯二世御准他終身保留「議員」稱號，1956年他獲冊封爵士。他亦曾任東華三院永遠顧問、保良局永遠總理及中華總商會名譽顧問，並為屯門中山公園孫逸仙博士紀念碑撰寫三百七十餘字碑文，又自1931年起出任香港大學校董會成員，1961年獲香港大學頒授榮譽法學博士。他出任董事長的廣東信託銀行在1965年2月發生擠提並倒閉，引發1965年香港股災，恆生指數急挫四分之一；他1968年因血栓塞性脈管炎入院施手術，1969年獲日本政府頒授勳三等瑞寶章，1970年12月再入跑馬地養和醫院，1971年1月27日逝世，當日正值農曆大年初一，終年七十七歲，遺體安葬於香港仔華人永遠墳場。
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Sir Tsun-nin Chau (1893–1971) was born in Hong Kong on 22 October 1893, his family originating in Dongguan, Guangdong; his father Chau Siu-ki was an unofficial member of the Legislative Council and his cousin Sir Sik-nin Chau also became a member of both councils. The seventh son of his father, he was known as 'Seventh Brother' because his six elder brothers all died young. Educated at St Stephen's College, he went to Queen's College, Oxford in 1910 to read law, graduated in 1914 and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, later taking a master's degree at Oxford. After a few months in practice he turned to the family's finance and insurance business, serving as general manager of the Safety Fire and the Kowloon Land and Mortgage companies and supervisor of the Yuen On Steamship Company, later chairing the Canton Trust Bank and sitting on the boards of the Yaumati Ferry, Hongkong Electric, Hong Kong Telephone and other firms. Appointed an unofficial Justice of the Peace in 1922 and a member of the Sanitary Board in 1929, he was named an unofficial member of the Legislative Council by Governor Peel in December 1931 and sworn in that month to fill the seat left by Sir Chow Shouson, the first man in Hong Kong's history to follow his father into that chamber, and became Senior Chinese Unofficial Member in January 1937 in succession to Dr Ts'o Seen-yu; he served briefly on the Executive Council in 1938, retired from the Legislative Council in December 1939 when Sir Man-kam Lo succeeded him, and received the CBE in 1938. After the Japanese occupation he was appointed deputy Secretary for Chinese Affairs by the temporary military government in 1945, returned to the Legislative Council when civil government resumed in May 1946, joined the Executive Council as Senior Chinese Unofficial Member, became Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council in 1950, retired from that chamber in 1953 and stepped down from the Executive Council in 1959, when the Queen granted him the right to keep the title 'The Honourable' for life; he was knighted in 1956. He was also a permanent adviser to Tung Wah, a permanent director of Po Leung Kuk and an honorary adviser to the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, wrote the inscription on the Sun Yat-sen memorial in Tuen Mun's Sun Yat-sen Park, sat on the University of Hong Kong's court from 1931, and received an honorary doctorate in law from the university in 1961. The Canton Trust Bank, which he chaired, failed in the 1965 bank run that helped trigger that year's share-market crash. He died at the Sanatorium Hospital in Happy Valley on 27 January 1971, the first day of the Lunar New Year, aged 77, and was buried in the Aberdeen Chinese Permanent Cemetery.
