Ronald Dare Gillespie

Ronald Dare Gillespie (14 April 1890 – 8 April 1981) was a Scottish Canadian businessman, British Army officer and politician in Hong Kong. He was member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1946 to 1948.

Biography Ronald Dare Gillespie was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in April 1890 and was educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh He received his training in Edinburgh but returned to British Columbia to practise engineering and surveying. He served as Captain in the Gordon Highlanders during the First World War and was taken prisoner of war at La Bassee in January 1915 and was later exchanged.

After the war, he joined the Imperial Chemical Industries, a British chemicals company which he later became the Chairman, and served in several cities in China. He was interned in Hong Kong by the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and was released in exchange for Japanese held by Canada in 1943. Gillespie then served in the British Raw Materials Mission in Washington until the war ended.

Gillespie returned to Hong Kong in October 1945 and became the Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. In April 1946, he was nominated as the Chamber of Commerce's representative in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and served until 1948.