Sir John Henry Keswick, KCMG (1906–1982) was an influential Scottish businessman in China and Hong Kong.
He was the tai-pan of Jardine, Matheson & Co., the leading British trading firm in the Far East, and had established friendship with many Chinese politicians.
As a result, Sir John and his White Russian deputy Vladimir Petropavlovsky were ordered to leave the country in 1943.
[2] As a personal friend of Zhou Enlai, Sir John continued to make annual trips to China.
[6] In 1979 when Deng Xiaoping seized power after the Cultural Revolution, Sir John visited China with the Great Britain-China Centre delegation led by Malcolm MacDonald, former British High Commissioner in Southeast Asia and also a long-time friend of Zhou Enlai, and included Sir Harold Thompson and Elizabeth Wright.
Together with his daughter, Sir John founded the Hollywood Trust in 1981 to address problems that disadvantaged young people in Dumfries and Galloway faced, and in 1979 also the Keswick Foundation for mental health in Hong Kong.