Geoffrey Follows

Sir Charles Geoffrey Shield Follows (4 July 1896 – 1983) was a British colonial administrator. He was the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1946 to 1951.

Follows was a Lieutenant in The King's (Liverpool Regiment) in the First World War. He joined the colonial service after the war.^[1] He was appointed to Seychelles from 1920 to 1925, Gibraltar from 1925 to 1927, Northern Rhodesia as the Chief Secretary from 1935 to 1945. He was appointed acting Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in September 1945 and Financial Secretary on 1 May 1946. He was responsible for the financial difficulties in post-war Hong Kong. He left Hong Kong on pre-retirement leave in May 1951.^[2]

References

↑ "Lieutenant Charles Geoffrey Shield FOLLOWS. The King's (Liverpool Regiment).". The National Archives.
↑ Ure, Gavin (2012). Governors, Politics and the Colonial Office: Public Policy in Hong Kong, 1918-58. Hong Kong University Press. p. 253.

Government offices
Preceded by Japanese occupation of Hong Kong	Financial Secretary of Hong Kong 1946–1951	Succeeded by Arthur Grenfell Clarke

Financial Secretary
Financial Secretary: Paul Chan
Subordinate departments	Economic Analysis and Business Facilitation Unit Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Previous office holders *	Martin Mercer Ricnaecker Forth C. C. Smith Russell Lister Mitchell-Innes T. S. Smith Thomson Messer Taylor Caine Butters Follows Clarke Cowperthwaite Haddon-Cave Bremridge Jacobs Macleod D. Tsang Leung Tang J. Tsang Chan
* Includes previous Colonial Treasurers

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