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- Robert_Hotung abstract "Sir Robert Ho Tung Bosman, KBE (22 December 1862 – 26 April 1956), better known as Sir Robert Hotung, was an influential Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist in British Hong Kong. Known as \"the grand old man of Hong Kong\", Hotung was knighted in 1915 and 1955.It has often been incorrectly claimed that in 1906 he was the \"first Chinese person to be allowed to live on Victoria Peak\"; however, the relevant law only applied to tenants. Ho Tung owned his own houses and so needed no such permission and, of course, he was as much European as he was Chinese.".