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David Fortune "Taffy" Landale, JP (Chinese: 蘭杜; 7 November 1905 – 15 December 1970), was a British-Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician who was chairman and managing director of Jardine Matheson & Co. from 1945 to 1951, during which he was appointed by the Hong Kong government as an unofficial member of the Executive Council from 1946 to 1951, as well as the senior unofficial member of the Legislative Council from 1946 to 1950. Later in his life he settled in the United Kingdom, where he was chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland between 1955 and 1965. Landale had a close connection with Jardine Matheson. His father, David Landale, was also chairman and managing director of the firm, and the Landales were distantly related to the family of Dr William Jardine, who was the founder of the Jardine trading house. Landale's chairmanship of Jardine Matheson coincided with the outbreak of the Chinese Communist Revolution that followed the end of the Second World War. The turbulence prevented the firm from reviving the profitable China business that it had enjoyed in the past. In 1947, he founded the Hong Kong Airways with a hope of developing the firm's civil aviation business. The attempt, however, was hit by the growing instability of the region. As the senior unofficial member of the Legislative Council, Landale was an active critic of the Hong Kong government who was noted for his unsuccessful attempt to oppose the government's plan of re-introducing income tax after the war in 1947. Besides, he moved a motion in the Council in 1949 to debate the "Young Plan". The plan, which proposed for the idea of setting up a Municipal Council, was highly questioned by him and other unofficial members, who believed that reforming the Legislative Council would be a better alternative. Nevertheless, having considered the regional instability and the lukewarm response from the general public, the British government announced in 1952 that no major constitutional reform would take place in Hong Kong. (en)
大衛·福瓊·「塔菲」·蘭杜，JP（英語：David Fortune "Taffy" Landale，1905年11月7日－1970年12月15日），英國及香港商人和政治家，1945年至1951年任怡和洋行主席兼董事總經理，期間於1946年至1951年和1946年至1950年分別兼任香港行政局非官守議員和立法局首席非官守議員，返回英國後他在1955年至1965年任蘇格蘭皇家銀行主席。蘭杜與怡和洋行關係密切，其父親大衛·蘭杜也曾任怡和洋行主席兼董事總經理，家族也屬於洋行創辦人威廉·渣甸的遠房後人。蘭杜擔任怡和主席的時候，正值二戰結束後百廢待興之時，可是鑑於中國大陸風雲色變，迫使怡和無法像戰前維持在中國大陸的龐大業務。此外，他於1947年參與創立香港航空，銳意拓展民航業務，但同樣因為地區局勢不明朗的因素而遇上挫折。在香港擔任兩局議員期間，蘭杜多番批評港府施政，並特別反對港府在戰後重新開徵入息稅的建議，惟建議仍舊於1947年落實。此外，他任內於1949年主動在立法局動議辯論「楊慕琦計劃」，但他與該局其他非官守議員都認為直接改革立法局，比起港府方案中提出設立香港市議會的建議來得更為實際。然而，考慮到政局不穩和香港市民反應冷淡等因素，英政府最終於1952年宣佈不會對香港展開大規模的民主改革。 (zh)

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大衛·福瓊·「塔菲」·蘭杜，JP（英語：David Fortune "Taffy" Landale，1905年11月7日－1970年12月15日），英國及香港商人和政治家，1945年至1951年任怡和洋行主席兼董事總經理，期間於1946年至1951年和1946年至1950年分別兼任香港行政局非官守議員和立法局首席非官守議員，返回英國後他在1955年至1965年任蘇格蘭皇家銀行主席。蘭杜與怡和洋行關係密切，其父親大衛·蘭杜也曾任怡和洋行主席兼董事總經理，家族也屬於洋行創辦人威廉·渣甸的遠房後人。蘭杜擔任怡和主席的時候，正值二戰結束後百廢待興之時，可是鑑於中國大陸風雲色變，迫使怡和無法像戰前維持在中國大陸的龐大業務。此外，他於1947年參與創立香港航空，銳意拓展民航業務，但同樣因為地區局勢不明朗的因素而遇上挫折。在香港擔任兩局議員期間，蘭杜多番批評港府施政，並特別反對港府在戰後重新開徵入息稅的建議，惟建議仍舊於1947年落實。此外，他任內於1949年主動在立法局動議辯論「楊慕琦計劃」，但他與該局其他非官守議員都認為直接改革立法局，比起港府方案中提出設立香港市議會的建議來得更為實際。然而，考慮到政局不穩和香港市民反應冷淡等因素，英政府最終於1952年宣佈不會對香港展開大規模的民主改革。 (zh)
David Fortune "Taffy" Landale, JP (Chinese: 蘭杜; 7 November 1905 – 15 December 1970), was a British-Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician who was chairman and managing director of Jardine Matheson & Co. from 1945 to 1951, during which he was appointed by the Hong Kong government as an unofficial member of the Executive Council from 1946 to 1951, as well as the senior unofficial member of the Legislative Council from 1946 to 1950. Later in his life he settled in the United Kingdom, where he was chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland between 1955 and 1965. (en)

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