Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn
(1881-1943)
British merchant
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Sir Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn (28 July 1881 – 21 August 1943) was the chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from 1930 to 1943. He was the most powerful financier in the Far East in the 1930s, and took an important role in establishing Hong Kong dollar as the official currency of the colony. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in World War II, Grayburn was arrested for providing monetary and logistics aid to military prisoners and bank employees held hostage, imprisoned, and later died at Stanley Prison.
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28 July 1881 England
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21 August 1943 (aged 62) Occupied Territory of Hong Kong
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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