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Wu Tingfang (Wu Ting-fang; , also known as Ng Choy ()) (30 July 1842, Malacca, Straits Settlements – 23 June 1922) was a Chinese diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and briefly as Acting Premier during the early years of the Republic of China. ==Career in Hong Kong== Wu was born in the Straits Settlement, now modern day Malacca in 1842 and was sent to China in 1846 to be schooled.〔http://www.thechinastory.org/ritp/wu-ting-fang-伍廷芳/〕 He studied at the Anglican St. Paul's College, in Hong Kong where he learned to read and write in English. After serving as an interpreter in the Magistrate's Court from 1861 to 1874,〔(). Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative and Executive Councils in Hong Kong up to 1941, T C Cheng〕 marrying Ho Miu-ling (sister of Sir Kai Ho) in 1864. He studied Law in the United Kingdom at University College London and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn (1876). Wu became the first ethnic Chinese barrister in history. After being called to the bar in England, he returned to Hong Kong in 1877 to practise law. He was admitted as a barrister in Hong Kong in a ceremony before Chief Justice John Smale welcomed him to the bar and said: "In England every office becomes open to talent without favour of affection. A distinguished American statesman has become, and now is an ornament of the English bar, and all the Bar will gladly hail the time when a Chinaman shall distinguish himself as much as the eminent counsel to whom I refer. I have seen stranger things happen."〔Re Ng Choy, () HKC 109〕 Later, Wu became the first ethnic Chinese Unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (appointed 1880). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wu Tingfang」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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