Elsie Tu

Elsie Tu, GBM, CBE , known as Elsie Elliott in her earlier life, was an Englishborn Hong Kong social activist, elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong from 1963 to 1995, and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1988 to 1995.

Tu was born into the workingclass family of John and Florence Hume onJune 1913 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the second child of four. After attending Benwell Secondary Girls School and Heaton Secondary School, she went on to study at Armstrong College, a forerunner of Newcastle University, graduating in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts. From 1937 to 1947 she was a schoolteacher in Halifax, where, during the Second World War, she was a Civil Defence volunteer.

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