Voices of Macao Stones

Sir Lindsay Ride, CBE (mil), ED, MA, DM (Oxon), Hon LLD (London, Toronto, and Hong Kong), Hon RAM, was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1949-1964, when he retired. An Australian Rhodes Scholar, he joined the university in 1928 as Professor of Physiology, and was Dean of Medicine for a total of eight years. He was a member of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force and was taken prisoner in 1941 when the colony surrendered to the Japanese. He escaped to China, from where he helped escaping prisoners-of-war reach freedom. After the war he returned to his professorship. In 1962 he was knighted for his services to education and the arts. He died in Hong Kong in 1977 May Ride, nee Witchell, came from an old, established Hong Kong family. In 1933 she was Secretary to the Dean of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, and later Private Secretary to the Vice-Chancellor. Also a member of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force, she was interned by the Japanese during the Second World War. Lady Ride retired to England in 1996, and passed away in March 1999Ride, Lindsay is the author of 'Voices of Macao Stones', published 1999 under ISBN 9789622094871 and ISBN 9622094872.