appointed birth_place office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
sir edward youde sir david wilson hong kong member of the legislative council 7 december 1947 6 october 1982 henrietta ip
 22 august 1991 henrietta ip man-hing 葉文慶 paediatrician maryknoll college of physicians convent school , university of liverpool , royal
henrietta ip

henrietta ip man-hing , obe , jp -lrb- born 7 december 1947 , hong kong -rrb- is a paediatrician and politician .
graduated from maryknoll convent school , she got her m.b.ch.b .
at the university of liverpool .
she is member of the royal college of surgeons of england and fellow of the royal college of physicians of edinburgh and glasgow .
she was appointed to the legislative council of hong kong by governor edward youde in 1982 , and served in the council until 1991 .
ip was the member of the hong kong basic law consultative committee to draft the basic law of hong kong in the 1980s .
she and other businessmen , financiers and industrialists set up the business and professionals group , which later transformed into group of 89 to put forward a conservative proposal for electing the chief executive of hong kong after 1997 .
after the tiananmen square crackdown in 1989 , ip urged the uk parliament to grant full british citizenship to hong kong 's british nationals in the council meeting held on 5 july 1989 , saying that `` we were born and live under british rule on british land ... it is therefore ... our right to ask that you should give us back a place of abode so that we can continue to live under british rule on british land if we so wish ... i represent most of all those who live here to firmly request and demand you to grant us the right to full british citizenship so that we can , if we so wish , live in the united kingdom , our motherland ... in fact , your resistance to granting us full citizenship and the right of abode in the united kingdom reflects your doubt about the joint declaration .
yet the more you lack confidence in it , the stronger is the reason why you should grant us full citizenship to protect us from communist rule ... i say to you that the right of abode in the united kingdom is the best and the only definitive guarantee ... with your failure to give us such a guarantee , reluctant as i may , i must advise the people of hong kong , and urgently now , each to seek for themselves a home of last resort even if they have to leave to do so .
i do so because , as a legislator , my duty is with the people first and the stability and prosperity of hong kong second , although the two are so interdependent on each other ... '' she was a critic of the idea of the british national -lrb- overseas -rrb- .
