Leonardo Horácio d'Almada e Castro Jr. CBE QC JP (Chinese: 廖亞孖打/廖亞利孖打; 28 May 1904 – 1996) was a barrister and prominent leader of the Portuguese community in Hong Kong.
He left for England and graduated in jurisprudence from the Exeter College, Oxford in 1926 and was called to the Bar as a member of the Middle Temple in 1927.
[3] He was appointed as an unofficial member in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1937 to 1941 in the succession of José Pedro Braga and 1946 to 1953 after the war.
[4] During the Second World War he lived in Macao and served as a liaison officer between the Portuguese and British governments in connection of refugees.
[2] He was appointed to the Hong Kong Planning Unit in London during the last years of the war after his difficult journey through Japanese-occupied China to India, and then to England.