The wife of the late Lawrence Kadoorie, who made the family a household name in the city with his electricity utility business CLP, has died. She was 96.
CLP staff received the news of Muriel Kadoorie's death yesterday, a spokesman said, but they were not sure when she died.
Her son Michael Kadoorie, the chairman of CLP, had not made any announcement of her death to staff members or the public, the spokesman said.
CLP, which Lawrence Kadoorie expanded into a successful company, is the larger of the two power companies in Hong Kong; the other is Power Assets.
Muriel Kadoorie, n?e Gubbay, married in 1938 and bore two children, Rita and Michael. Her husband was knighted in 1974 and became the first Hong Kong-born person to be granted a peerage, in 1981. He died in 1993 at the age of 94.
She was conferred an honorary doctorate by the University of Hong Kong in 1999 for 'her generosity of spirit and her willingness to donate to so many worthy causes'.