{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Sandberg | honorific_suffix = CBE | image = The Lord Sandberg.jpg | office = Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong | term_start = September 1, 1979 | term_end = August 31, 1986 | appointer = Murray MacLehose<br>Edward Youde | office1 = Member of the House of Lords | status1 = Lord Temporal | term_label1 = Life peerage | term_start1 = 2 October 1997 | term_end1 = 8 May 2015 | birth_date = {{birth date|1927|5|31|df=yes}} | birth_place = Surrey, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|7|2|1927|5|31|df=yes}} | alma_mater = St Edward's School, Oxford | spouse = Carmel, Lady Sandberg | children = Deirdre Sandberg<br />Paul Sandberg<br />Michael Kevin Sandberg<br />Marion Sandberg | parents = Gerald Arthur Clifford Sandberg (1882–1954)<br />Ethel Marian Ruddock (1882–1947) }}
'''Michael Graham Ruddock Sandberg, Baron Sandberg''', CBE ({{lang-zh|c=沈弼}}, 31 May 1927 – 2 July 2017) was executive chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from 1977 to 1986.
==Biography== Sandberg was born in Surrey and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford. In 1945 he joined the army and was commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1946,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37946 |date=1947-05-02 |page=2002 |supp=y }}</ref> and was promoted to lieutenant in November 1947.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=38136 |date=1947-11-28 |page=5692|supp=y }}</ref> He later volunteered to join the Indian Army. Upon Indian independence he joined the First King's Dragoon Guards in January 1949.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=38662 |date=1949-07-12 |page=3397|supp=y }}</ref>
In 1949 he joined The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, becoming chairman and chief executive in 1977. During his chairmanship the bank saw substantial international expansion, acquiring a 51% stake in Marine Midland Bank in the United States of America, establishing the Hongkong Bank of Canada in 1981 and HongkongBank of Australia Limited in 1986. As Chairman Sandberg was responsible for the construction of the landmark HSBC Main Building in Central, Hong Kong, which at the time was the most expensive building ever constructed in the world. Having been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1977<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=47234 |date=11 June 1977 |page=7101 |supp=y}}</ref> and promoted to a Commander (CBE) in 1982,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=49008 |date=12 June 1982 |page=17 |supp=y}}</ref> on retirement he received a knighthood for "public services in Hong Kong".<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=50551 |date=13 June 1986 |page=B2 |supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=50759 |date=30 December 1986 |page=16784}}</ref> On 2 October 1997 he was created a life peer in the House of Lords as '''Baron Sandberg''' of Passfield in the County of Hampshire.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=54913 |date=7 October 1997 |page=11279}}</ref> He retired from the House on 8 May 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lord Sandberg|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-sandberg/2163|accessdate=8 July 2017}}</ref> He died on 2 July 2017 at the age of 90.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lord Sandberg, chairman of Hongkong Bank – obituary|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=7 July 2017 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/07/07/lord-sandbergchairman-hongkong-bank-obituary/|accessdate=7 July 2017}}</ref>
{{Infobox COA wide |escutcheon = Argent on a chevron Or fimbriated Vert a robin redbreast (Erithacus rubecula) Proper all between three trefoils slipped Vert. |crest = A pearl Proper between two wings displayed Argent. |supporters = Dexter, a Chinese dragon Or; Sinister, a dragon sans wings Or. |motto = Serva Fidem <ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2000}}</ref>}}
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[http://www.libdems.org.uk/www.libdems.org.uk/people/lord-sandberg.html Lord Sandberg] profile at the site of Liberal Democrats
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