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鄧蓮如女男爵（Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn，DBE，JP，1940年2月29日－），籍貫廣東番禺，生於英屬香港，父親為茶商。她幼年曾到上海居住，1948年因中國局勢動盪舉家逃難來港，入讀聖保祿學校，其後赴美國加州奧克蘭升學，先後入讀聖名學院及加州大學柏克萊分校，取得理學士學位。1964年她獲太古集團聘用，最初在太古貿易採購部任職，接觸紡織及製衣業務，從基層做起，不久升任出口部經理，並促成太古貿易（台灣）有限公司的成立。自1970年代末至1990年代初，她活躍於香港政壇：1976年獲總督麥理浩委任為立法局非官守議員，1982年獲總督尤德委任為行政局非官守議員，1985年接替羅保爵士出任立法局首席非官守議員，1988年起出任行政局首席非官守議員至1995年，是港府最高諮詢機構首位華人女性主持者。任內她關注香港前途，曾與鍾士元、利國偉以個人身分赴北京與鄧小平會面，又多次前往倫敦游說，並在1989年立法局就英國國籍法舉行的聆訊上，批評英國政府「剝奪港人權利不可接受」，情緒激動落淚，其後與李鵬飛推動居英權計劃。1989年她獲授DBE勳銜，成為首位取得英國爵級勳銜的華人女性；1990年獲冊封為終身女男爵，成為首位取得英國終身貴族身份、晉身英國上議院的華人。她1995年宣布退休，翌年遷居英國；2010年為保留非居籍稅務身份，與另外四名貴族放棄上議院議席，引來傳媒批評。政壇以外，她於1983至1991年出任香港貿易發展局主席，任內爭取興建香港會議展覽中心，並於1992至2008年出任滙豐控股副主席，亦曾任國泰航空及太古集團等機構董事。
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Lydia Selina Dunn, Baroness Dunn, was born in Hong Kong on 29 February 1940, of Panyu, Guangdong descent; her father was a tea merchant. After living briefly in Shanghai, her family fled to Hong Kong in 1948. She attended St Paul's School, then studied in Oakland, California, at Holy Names College and the University of California, Berkeley, taking a BSc. Joining the Swire group in 1964, she began in the purchasing department of Swire Trading dealing in textiles and garments, rose to export manager and helped found Swire Trading (Taiwan). Active in public life from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, she was appointed to the Legislative Council by Governor MacLehose in 1976 and to the Executive Council by Governor Youde in 1982, succeeded Sir Roger Lobo as Senior Unofficial Member of LegCo in 1985 and served as Senior Unofficial Member of ExCo from 1988 to 1995, the first Chinese woman to lead the government's highest advisory body. She took a close interest in Hong Kong's future, met Deng Xiaoping in Beijing with Chung Sze-yuen and Lee Quo-wei, travelled repeatedly to London to lobby, and at a 1989 hearing on British nationality law criticised the British government, breaking down in tears, then pressed for the right of abode with Allen Lee. Created a DBE in 1989, she was the first Chinese woman to receive a British knighthood, and in 1990 she was made a life peer, the first ethnic Chinese to take a seat in the House of Lords. She retired in 1995, moving to Britain the next year; in 2010 she and four other peers gave up their seats to keep their non-domiciled tax status, drawing criticism. Outside politics she chaired the Hong Kong Trade Development Council from 1983 to 1991, promoting the Convention and Exhibition Centre, and was vice-chairman of HSBC Holdings from 1992 to 2008 and a director of Cathay Pacific and Swire.
