Denis Bray

Denis Campbell Bray, CVO CBE JP (Chinese: 黎敦義; 24 January 1926 – 8 July 2005) was a senior British colonial civil servant in Hong Kong.

He first made his presence following the Shek Kip Mei fire on the Christmas Day in 1953, in which he gate-crashed a meeting convened by Governor Sir Alexander Grantham at 6am on the next day, to ask the Governor to resettle the 50,000 homeless people left by the fire.

He was Assistant Director of Urban Services and was the Secretary of the Special Duties Unit dealing with the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist riots.

[2] After his retirement from the government, Bray remained active in Hong Kong public life.

Besides that, he also held several business positions including the directorship of First Pacific Davies Ltd., Herald Holdings Ltds, and Leighton Asia Ltd.[2] He married Majorie Elizabeth Bottomley, who was also born in Hong Kong, in 1952, by whom he had one son Rupert and four daughters, Jennifer, Alison, Diana and Lucy.