J.K. Rideout

John Kennedy Rideout (1912, Leeds- 1950, Hong Kong) was a British Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney (succeeding Arthur Lindsay Sadler) and at the University of Hong Kong. A specialist in Chinese language and literature, he was a classical scholar at Oxford before pursuing studies in Far Eastern languages from the SOAS, where he also taught from 1942.

Disappearance and aftermath Rideout disappeared on 16 February 1950, and his body found twelve days later on the shores of Lantau Island, with some suspicion about a mooted connection to British intelligence, though the authorities ruled the death an accident.