John Walden

John Charles Creasey Walden (Chinese: 華樂庭; 17 April 1925–2013) was a London-born member of the colonial administration in Hong Kong from 1951 until his retirement 1980. He graduated in 1950 from Merton College, Oxford, with a second class degree in geography. He also studied Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and at the University of Hong Kong. with the goal of monitoring public opinion. He retired in 1980 to dedicate his life to studying public accountability in Hong Kong as a free-lance researcher. He was an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies of the University of Hong Kong. He returned to England in 2010, and died in 2013, aged 88, in Sturminster Newton, Dorset.

Publications Excellency, Your Gap is Showing: Six Critiques on British Colonial Government in Hong Kong (1983) Excellency, Your Gap is Growing: Six Talks on a Chinese Takeaway (1987)