constituency religion birth_place office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
urban council roman catholicism hong kong member of the legislative council 10 january 1951 1 july 1998 cheung wing-sum ambrose.jpg ambrose cheung
 30 december 1999 ambrose cheung 張永森 lawyer company director university of hong kong
ambrose cheung

ambrose cheung wing-sum , jp -lrb- born 10 january 1951 , hong kong -rrb- is a businessman and solicitor and is a former member of the legislative council of hong kong in 1998 -- 2000 for the urban council constituencyand incumbent sham shui po district council -lrb- mei foo north constituency -rrb- since 1985 .
after , cheung obtained his bachelor degree of social science form the university of hong kong in 1973 , he joined the standard chartered bank and was sent to the london headquarters and european branches for a year .
he resigned from the bank to studied law in london and returned to hong kong in 1981 .
he ran for the sham shui po district board in the 1985 district board elections and has been held the office since .
he was member of the urban council and was elected to the legislative council of hong kong by all the urban councillors in 1998 legco election through the urban council constituency .
in 1999 , as the representative of the urban council in the legislature , cheung resigned from the legco post to protest government 's decision of abolishing the two municipal councils .
cheung was member of the liberal party but soon quit the party after its bad performance in the 1994 district board elections , stating his disappointment to the party 's lack of commitment to the local development .
