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Sir Elly Kadoorie

艾利·嘉道理Àilì Jiādàolǐ · 1867–1944

Baghdad-born broker (1867-1944), former Sassoon clerk, who built the Kadoorie fortune and Marble Hall in Shanghai, where he died under occupation.

Faded newspaper-style photograph of an elderly man with a white moustache in evening dress with a sash and medals.
Sir Elly Kadoorie.Photo: unknown photographer, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sir Elly Kadoorie (艾利·嘉道理, Àilì Jiādàolǐ) was born in Baghdad in 1867 and reached Hong Kong in 1880. He began as a clerk at E. D. Sassoon & Co., became a broker, and founded Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons, with board seats at China Light and Power and other companies. He was made an honorary KBE in 1926. His Shanghai house, Marble Hall, is now the Children’s Palace. He died in 1944; sources disagree on the date and on whether it was in a camp or at home. The full account is in the Kadoorie family entry.

Part of: Kadoorie family嘉道理家族

Timeline

  1. 1867Born in Baghdad1
  2. 1880Reaches Hong Kong1
  3. 1926Made honorary KBE2
  4. 1944Dies; place and date disputed1

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Sources

  1. 1.Elly Kadoorie 1867-1944 (people record) (Elly Kadoorie 1867 - 1944), Science Museum Group — biography paragraph 1; biography paragraphs 1-2; biography paragraph 2website
  2. 2.Elly Kadoorie (Wikipedia) (Elly Kadoorie), Wikimedia Foundation — Honours (cites London Gazette, 3 July 1926); lead and infoboxwikipedia
  3. 3.Tour Report: Inside Marble Hall, The Kadoorie Mansion (Tour Report: Inside Marble Hall, The Kadoorie Mansion), Historic Shanghai — wartime sectionwebsite