Education
He attended primary school at the Sir Ellis Kadoorie School, Hong Kong, in the late 1940s. He then went to King's College for his secondary schooling before entering the University of Hong Kong in 1956. He graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in English from there in 1959, and completed a Diploma in Education the following year. He then went on to England to study at the University of Cambridge for two years before returning to Hong Kong in 1962.
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