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'''Sir Sze-yuen Chung''', [[PhD]], [[Grand Bauhinia Medal|GBM]], [[Order of the British Empire|GBE]], [[Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering|FREng]], [[Justice of the peace|JP]] ({{zh-t|鍾士元}}; 3 November 1917 – 14 November 2018) was a Hong Kong politician who served as a [[Senior Unofficial Member|Senior Member]] of the [[Executive Council of Hong Kong|Executive]] and [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]]s during the 1970s and 1980s in the colonial period and the first Non-official Convenor of the Executive Council in the SAR period. For his seniority in the Hong Kong political arena, he was nicknamed the "Great Sir" and "Godfather of Hong Kong politics".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20171104/20204069|title=隔牆有耳：大Sir百歲大壽猛人雲集|newspaper=蘋果日報|date=2017-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Growing with Hong Kong: The University and Its Graduates : the First 90 Years|page=273|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|year=2002}}</ref>

 

==Early life and education==