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Sir Alexander William George Herder Grantham (????????? 1899–1978) was a United Kingdom|British colonial governor who governed Hong Kong. Grantham was born on 15 March 1899 and was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was gazetted in the 18th Hussars in 1917 and joined the Colonial Administrative Service in Hong Kong in 1922. He was called to Bar, Inner Temple in 1934 and attended Imperial Defence College that year. A year later, Grantham became the Colonial Secretary of Bermuda from 1935 to 1938, and of Jamaica from 1938 to 1941. He then served as the Chief Secretary of Nigeria from 1941 to 1944 and became the List of Governors of Fiji|Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for Western Pacific from a year later, until 1947. Immediately after his tenure as High Commissioner ended, he became Governor of Hong Kong|Governor of Hong Kong, until 1957. His tenure marked the beginning of a unitary housing policy by the Hong Kong Government. In December 1953, a fire burned down a large slum area in Shek Kip Mei Kowloon, killing hundreds and leaving many homeless. It was under Grantham's administration that the government began to build settlement houses for the homeless. From that point on, the government was deeply involved in low-cost public housing programmes that allowed many Hong Kong people who could not afford to own a flat to live in government-owned housing estates at relatively low cost. The housing programme eventually evolved over time to allow people to buy low-cost housing and receive favourable loans to buy their own houses.
Grantham was married twice. His first marriage, in 1925, was to Maurine Samson, who died in 1970 and after whom the Gubernatorial yacht, the Lady Maurine, was named. He then married Mrs M. E. Lumley in 1972. Grantham died on 4 October 1978. The Grantham Hospital in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, as well as the Grantham Teacher's College in Hong Kong, were named after him. start box succession box | before=Sir Philip Euen Mitchell | title=Governor of Fiji | years=1946–1947 | after=Sir Leslie Freeston|Leslie Brian Freeston succession box | before=Sir Mark Aitchison Young | title=Governor of Hong Kong | years=1947–1957 | after=Sir Robert Brown Black end box
Category:1899 births|Grantham, Alexander William George Herder Category:1978 deaths|Grantham, Alexander William George Herder Category:Governors of Hong Kong|Grantham, Alexander William George Herder Category:Companions of St Michael and St George|Grantham, Alexander William George Herder Category:Knights Commander of St Michael and St George|Grantham, Alexander William George Herder Category:Knights Grand Cross of St Michael and St George|Grantham, Alexander William George Herder Category:Old Wellingtonians|Grantham, Alexander William George Herder Category:Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge|Grantham, Alexander William George Herder zh:????????? This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Alexander Grantham".
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