Eric Edward Hotung

Eric Edward Hotung CBE (, June 8, 1926 – September 20, 2017) was a Hong Kong billionaire businessman, financier, and philanthropist.

Biography Hotung was born to Robert Hotung's second son, Edward Hotung, and his wife, Alice Maud Newman (aka "Mordia O'Shea"), in 1926 in Hong Kong. His father founded the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange in Hong Kong. His brother was art collector and philanthropist Sir Joseph Hotung.

He moved to Shanghai as a child and attended St. Francis Xavier's College. He returned to Hong Kong during World War II and worked in Tung Wah Hospital. After the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, he returned to Shanghai with his family, which was put under house arrest by the Japanese. He also helped arrange Premier Zhu Rongji's trip to Washington, D.C. in 1990.

During the 1999 East Timorese crisis, Hotung bought a former Australian navy ship, HMAS Moresby, to transport 12,800 East Timorese refugees back to their home. Hotung had eight children, including two with Winnie Ho. He was a resident at the Osborne Apartments in New York City.

He and Winnie Ho were sued in 2006 by their son, Anthony Hotung, who was not told of his interests in two family trusts upon turning 21.

Hotung died on September 20, 2017.