Friendship First

FRIENDSHIP FIRST The Keswick Foundation Sir John Keswick KCMG, Chairman of Jardine Matheson from 1952 to 1956, spent most of his working life in China and Hong Kong. He arrived in The Keswick Foundation was established in Hong Kong in 1979 by Sir John Shanghai aboard the Empress of China in 1931 and so began a long love affair Keswick and his daughter Maggie Keswick Jencks. The Keswick Foundation helps with the East. He stayed in China till the outbreak of World War II and was back to support those in need in Hong Kong and mainland China. We assist under- in Hong Kong the moment peace was declared in 1945. Sir John returned to funded services and pilot projects related to human welfare. Shanghai to run the Jardine office until the communists entered Shanghai in 1948. Life was difficult during those years in Shanghai, though he was very sage about The affairs of the Foundation are managed by a voluntary Board of Governors, it: “…the fighting didn’t affect me all that much, although there was a tiresome assisted by an Executive Committee of volunteers and the Executive Director. a note on the title 書名由來 defending sniper who put a shot within an inch of my nose one day when I was 凱瑟克基金 having breakfast”. 凱瑟克基金由 Sir John Keswick 及其女兒 Maggie Keswick Jencks，於 1979 年在香友誼第一 Even after his retirement from Jardines and “50 years of marvellous experience, 港創立。 “Youyi diyi” – “Friendship first” – was the guiding principle (and invariable banquet toast) on with some tremendous friendships” – including Zhou Enlai (who he had first met in the 1940s) – Sir John continued to visit Hong Kong and China at least once 凱瑟克基金致力協助香港及中國內地有需要的人士，為資源不足的社會服務及 which Sir John Keswick built his and Jardine Matheson’s abiding relationships in post-1949 a year. As a result of his involvement in Sino-British trade he became President 先導性的福利計劃提供撥款。 of the Sino-British Trade Council. Sadly, for all who knew him, he died in 1982 China. The goodwill embodied in this simple statement lay at the heart of Sir John’s and The Keswick Foundation leaving behind him a well-established Hong Kong-based Keswick Foundation. 基金的事務由義務的總監管理，並獲義務的執行委員會及總幹事提供協助。 Maggie’s conception for the work of the Keswick Foundation. The “young Turks” who sat at Sir Sir John Keswick KCMG 在 1952 至 1956 年期間出任英國怡和集團主席，在中 FRIENDSHIP FIRST 國及香港渡過大部分的事業生涯。在 1931 年，Sir John 乘坐輪船中國皇后號前 John’s feet were initially uncertain about the quotation’s continuation “Shengyi di’er” – “Business 往上海，自此與中國建立深厚的感情。他長期居於中國，直至爆發第二次世界大戰才返回英國。戰事於 1945 年結束後，他隨即返回香港。其後，他代表怡和 second” – but we eventually got the point. WMC 集團駐守上海，負責管理當地的辦事處，在共產黨於 1948 年進駐上海才離開。友誼第一雖然那段在上海生活的日子頗為艱苦，但他處之泰然：「⋯ 戰事對我的影響不大，只是有一天，當我吃早餐的時候，一名滿臉倦容的反抗軍狙擊手用槍指著「友誼第一」是 Sir John Keswick 秉承的首要原則，（也是他在宴會席上常用的祝酒辭），成功助他個人及怡和我的鼻子。」管理有限公司，與一九四九年後的新中國建立深厚而持久的關係。這句簡單句子所蘊含的善意，正是 Sir John 凱瑟克基金 The Keswick Foundation 即使從怡和集團退休後，Sir John 每年仍然至少探訪香港和中國一次。在中國生活期間，他擁有「50 年美好的經歷，以及不少真摯的友誼」，朋友中包括中國和 Maggie 創立凱瑟克基金以支持社會服務的原動力。Sir John Keswick 的年青追隨者在當時對「友誼第一」的前總理周恩來（相識於 1940 年代）。由於他活躍於中英貿易事務，後來成為中凱瑟克基金英貿易委員會主席。Sir John 不幸於 1982 年逝世，但由他創立的香港凱瑟克基下一句 —「生意第二」— 不明所以，但其後的成果有目共睹，不言而喻。 WMC 金，至今仍繼續積極參與本港的福利事務。 1979 30 1979 –2009 Maggie Keswick Jencks, daughter of John and Clare Keswick, first visited – 2009 China at the age of four. As a child she lived in both Hong Kong and Shanghai and as a result she grew to share her father’s love for all things Chinese. Maggie Caroline Courtauld MBE, compiler and managing editor of this book, would accompany her father on many of his visits to China during the years of the is a former Chairman of the Keswick Foundation. A writer, photographer and Cultural Revolution and so began her love and expertise of the art and philosophy documentary film producer and researcher, she has published books on Burma, of the Chinese garden. In 1978 she published The Chinese Garden, a classic on Hong Kong and China, including the widely acclaimed The Forbidden City – The the subject, of which one of the reviewers said, “after reading Maggie Keswick Great Within, a history of the Imperial Palace in Beijing which she co-authored Jencks’s sensitive study one is tempted to run off to Suzhou using The Chinese with May Holdsworth. From 1992 to 1997 she worked on the BBC documentary Garden as a spiritual guidebook”. This marvellous book is still in print today. The Last Governor about Hong Kong in the period up to its transfer of sovereignty After the death of her father Sir John in 1982, Maggie continued his commitment to China. Her involvement in a television documentary on the history of Hong to Hong Kong where she grew up, and was the driving force behind the expanding Kong led to another book, The Hong Kong Story. Caroline has been a leading work of the Keswick Foundation. She contracted cancer in 1989 and as a result of figure in the hospice care movement in Hong Kong (for which she was awarded The Keswick Foundation 凱瑟克基金 that difficult journey started the Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. Maggie died in the MBE), and currently sits on a variety of NGO boards. She now splits her time Foundation The Keswick 1995. between homes in Hong Kong and Essex, England. Maggie Keswick Jencks 是 John 及 Clare Keswick 的女兒。她在四歲時首次踏足 Caroline Courtauld MBE 為凱瑟克基金前任主席，是本書的編者及總編中國，孩提時代曾於香港及上海生活。因此與父親一樣，對中國文化深感興輯。Caroline 是一位作家、攝影師、紀錄片監製及研究員，曾經出版有關緬甸、趣。在文化大革命期間，Maggie 曾跟隨父親多次到訪中國，從而培養對中國園香港及中國的著作，包括與 May Holdsworth 合著的暢銷書 The Forbidden City – 林藝術及哲學的喜愛和專業知識。她在 1978 出版了經典著作 The Chinese The Great Within，闡述北京紫禁城的歷史。在 1992 年至 1997 年間，她為英國 Garden，以下是其中一位評論家的意見：「讀畢 Maggie Keswick Jencks的精心作 BBC 電視台製作一套名為 The Last Governor 的紀錄片，探討香港在回歸中國之前 The Keswick Foundation 凱瑟克基金 ISBN 978-962-217-817-5 品，讓人不禁萌生以 The Chinese Garden 作為靈性指南，立即到蘇州遊歷的念的情況。此外，她亦曾參與製作一套以香港歷史為主題的電視紀錄片，並根據頭。」這本出色的著作至今仍有發行。有關內容撰寫 The Hong Kong Story 一書。多年來，Caroline 致力推動香港的寧養 25/F., Devon House, Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong 服務（因而獲頒 MBE 勛銜)，至今出任多個志願機構的委員。現在，她主要在香港鰂魚涌英皇道 979 號太古坊德宏大廈 25 字樓凱瑟克基金 Sir John 逝世後，Maggie 秉承父親的意願，繼續為長於斯的香港服務，並成為香港及英國埃塞克斯兩地生活。凱瑟克基金的一般主要推動力。她在 1989 年患上癌症，抗癌經歷促使她創立 www.keswickfoundation.org.hk 9 789622 178175 Maggie’s 癌症關顧中心。Maggie 不幸於 1995 年逝世。 FRIENDSHIP FIRST The Keswick Foundation Sir John Keswick KCMG, Chairman of Jardine Matheson from 1952 to 1956, spent most of his working life in China and Hong Kong. He arrived in The Keswick Foundation was established in Hong Kong in 1979 by Sir John Shanghai aboard the Empress of China in 1931 and so began a long love affair Keswick and his daughter Maggie Keswick Jencks. The Keswick Foundation helps with the East. He stayed in China till the outbreak of World War II and was back to support those in need in Hong Kong and mainland China. We assist under- in Hong Kong the moment peace was declared in 1945. Sir John returned to funded services and pilot projects related to human welfare. Shanghai to run the Jardine office until the communists entered Shanghai in 1948. Life was difficult during those years in Shanghai, though he was very sage about The affairs of the Foundation are managed by a voluntary Board of Governors, it: “…the fighting didn’t affect me all that much, although there was a tiresome assisted by an Executive Committee of volunteers and the Executive Director. a note on the title 書名由來 defending sniper who put a shot within an inch of my nose one day when I was 凱瑟克基金 having breakfast”. 凱瑟克基金由 Sir John Keswick 及其女兒 Maggie Keswick Jencks，於 1979 年在香友誼第一 Even after his retirement from Jardines and “50 years of marvellous experience, 港創立。 “Youyi diyi” – “Friendship first” – was the guiding principle (and invariable banquet toast) on with some tremendous friendships” – including Zhou Enlai (who he had first met in the 1940s) – Sir John continued to visit Hong Kong and China at least once 凱瑟克基金致力協助香港及中國內地有需要的人士，為資源不足的社會服務及 which Sir John Keswick built his and Jardine Matheson’s abiding relationships in post-1949 a year. As a result of his involvement in Sino-British trade he became President 先導性的福利計劃提供撥款。 of the Sino-British Trade Council. Sadly, for all who knew him, he died in 1982 China. The goodwill embodied in this simple statement lay at the heart of Sir John’s and The Keswick Foundation leaving behind him a well-established Hong Kong-based Keswick Foundation. 基金的事務由義務的總監管理，並獲義務的執行委員會及總幹事提供協助。 Maggie’s conception for the work of the Keswick Foundation. The “young Turks” who sat at Sir Sir John Keswick KCMG 在 1952 至 1956 年期間出任英國怡和集團主席，在中 FRIENDSHIP FIRST 國及香港渡過大部分的事業生涯。在 1931 年，Sir John 乘坐輪船中國皇后號前 John’s feet were initially uncertain about the quotation’s continuation “Shengyi di’er” – “Business 往上海，自此與中國建立深厚的感情。他長期居於中國，直至爆發第二次世界大戰才返回英國。戰事於 1945 年結束後，他隨即返回香港。其後，他代表怡和 second” – but we eventually got the point. WMC 集團駐守上海，負責管理當地的辦事處，在共產黨於 1948 年進駐上海才離開。友誼第一雖然那段在上海生活的日子頗為艱苦，但他處之泰然：「⋯ 戰事對我的影響不大，只是有一天，當我吃早餐的時候，一名滿臉倦容的反抗軍狙擊手用槍指著「友誼第一」是 Sir John Keswick 秉承的首要原則，（也是他在宴會席上常用的祝酒辭），成功助他個人及怡和我的鼻子。」管理有限公司，與一九四九年後的新中國建立深厚而持久的關係。這句簡單句子所蘊含的善意，正是 Sir John 凱瑟克基金 The Keswick Foundation 即使從怡和集團退休後，Sir John 每年仍然至少探訪香港和中國一次。在中國生活期間，他擁有「50 年美好的經歷，以及不少真摯的友誼」，朋友中包括中國和 Maggie 創立凱瑟克基金以支持社會服務的原動力。Sir John Keswick 的年青追隨者在當時對「友誼第一」的前總理周恩來（相識於 1940 年代）。由於他活躍於中英貿易事務，後來成為中凱瑟克基金英貿易委員會主席。Sir John 不幸於 1982 年逝世，但由他創立的香港凱瑟克基下一句 —「生意第二」— 不明所以，但其後的成果有目共睹，不言而喻。 WMC 金，至今仍繼續積極參與本港的福利事務。 1979 30 1979 –2009 Maggie Keswick Jencks, daughter of John and Clare Keswick, first visited – 2009 China at the age of four. As a child she lived in both Hong Kong and Shanghai and as a result she grew to share her father’s love for all things Chinese. Maggie Caroline Courtauld MBE, compiler and managing editor of this book, would accompany her father on many of his visits to China during the years of the is a former Chairman of the Keswick Foundation.

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