Frank Loseby
Francis Henry Loseby | |
|---|---|
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1883 |
| Died | 1967 |
| Spouse(s) | Rosa Loseby[1] |
| Children | Patricia Loseby[1][2][1] |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Francis Henry Loseby was a Hong Kong-based British solicitor who defended Ho Chi Minh (then known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc) during his arrest and imprisonment in Hong Kong between 1931 and 1933.
Ho Chi Minh case
Ho was arrested in Hong Kong by police on June 6, 1931 following the arrest of a French Comintern agent whose premises contained papers with names of several other Communist agents, among them Nguyễn Ái Quốc.[3] Ho (Nguyễn) had claimed to be Chinese, using the name Sung Man Cho.[3] Loseby, who had a history of defending exiled Vietnamese dissidents, was alerted to the arrest and imprisonment of Ho (Nguyễn). Knowing that a likely deportation back to Indochina would inevitably lead to execution[1], Loseby was contacted to defend him in his case. Frank had personally approached Ho and stated to him "I will defend you because of honour, not for money".[1] During the two-year-long case, Frank, his wife Rosa and daughter Patricia would visit Ho (Nguyễn) every weekend and provide him with numerous gifts and necessities.[1] After a lengthy debate between Loseby, senior counsel F.C. Jenkin and governor William Peel, it was eventually concluded by the Privy Council in London that although Ho would be deported as an undesirable, it would not be to a French port.[3] Ho was quietly released by British authorities in 1933 and, disguised as a Confucian scholar in robes specifically tailored by Loseby's wife, managed to board a ship from Hong Kong to Shanghai.[3]
Later life
Frank continued his work as a solicitor in Hong Kong and he and Ho would keep in irregular contact with each other. During the Second World War, Frank and his family resided in the Stanley Internment Camp[1]. By 1953, Loseby's daughter, Patricia, became the first female solicitor in Hong Kong.[1] In 1960, Loseby, his wife and daughter were personally invited to Hanoi by Ho and attended as official guests. He died in 1967. A memorial to Loseby is present at the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum and was erected in 2014.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1270146/then-now-name-law
- ↑ "The First Ladies".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Deporting Ho Chi Minh | History Today". www.historytoday.com.
- ↑ Retboll, Torben (June 13, 2015). "Torben Retboll - Teacher and Traveller: Vietnam: A Lonely Planet Guidebook (2014)".
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