Philip Haddon-Cave

Sir
Philip Haddon-Cave
Governor of Hong Kong
Acting
In office
8 May 1982 – 20 May 1982
MonarchElizabeth II
Chief SecretaryHimself
Preceded bySir Murray MacLehose
Succeeded bySir Edward Youde
Chief Secretary of Hong Kong
In office
20 November 1981 – 9 June 1985
MonarchElizabeth II
GovernorMurray MacLehose
Edward Youde
Preceded byJack Cater
Succeeded byDavid Akers-Jones
Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
In office
1 July 1971 – 31 May 1981
GovernorDavid Trench
Murray MacLehose
Preceded byJohn Cowperthwaite
Succeeded byJohn Henry Bremridge
Personal details
Born(1925-07-06)6 July 1925
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Died27 September 1999(1999-09-27) (aged 74)
Oxford, England
Spouse
Elizabeth Alice Simpson
(m. 1948)
Children3, including Charles Haddon-Cave
Alma materUniversity of Tasmania
King's College, Cambridge
OccupationColonial administrator
Philip Haddon-Cave
Traditional Chinese夏鼎基
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationHah Díng gēi
JyutpingHaa6 Ding2 gei1

Sir Charles Philip Haddon-Cave, KBE CMG (Chinese: 夏鼎基; 6 July 1925 – 27 September 1999) was a British colonial administrator. He was the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1971 to 1981 and the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong from 1981 to 1985. During his tenure of Financial Secretary, he famously coined the term "positive non-interventionism" as its chief principle, which has long-lasting effect on Hong Kong and world's economic philosophy.