Henry Hu Hung-lick, a pioneer of private higher education who co-founded Hong Kong’s Shue Yan University with his wife, has died at the age of 105.
The university said on Monday that the veteran educator died peacefully the previous day, “with his family by his side”.
“Dr Hu will sadly be missed by all the university’s staff, students and alumni,” it said.
“The date of Dr Hu’s funeral and memorial activities will be announced separately once his family has finalised the arrangements.”
Born in Zhejiang province in 1920, Hu graduated from the National University of Political Science in 1942, where he studied law, diplomacy and Russian. He later served as a diplomat in Tashkent in present-day Uzbekistan.
Hu and his wife, Chung Chi-yung, later moved to France, where he studied law and international affairs. The pair married in 1945.
