David Fortune Landale

David Fortune Taffy Landale, JP , was a BritishHong Kong entrepreneur and politician who was chairman and managing director of Jardine Matheson amp 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 was born in the Jardine Matheson office in the Shanghai International Settlement, China, onNovember 1905. He was the son of David Landale of Dalswinton, Dumfries, Scotland, and Mildred Sophia Fortune . He had two sisters and one brother, namely Margaret Winifred Landale , Veronica Grizel Kinloch Landale and Peter Wellwood Fortune Landale . His brother, a pilot of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, died in a plane crash in the North Sea when he was flying to Hanover, Germany, on a military mission in 1941. His body was never found.

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