High Sheriff honour
A PROMINENT local businessman has been appointed as the new High Sheriff of Greater Manchester.
Gerry Yeung, whose family founded Manchester’s famous Yang Sing Chinese restaurant, was selected for the symbolic role by the Queen and will serve a 12-month term of office.
He said he was ‘delighted and honoured’.
An installation ceremony will take place in April at the University of Manchester’s Whitworth Hall.
Mr Yeung, a father-oftwo from Heaton Moor, was born in Guangzhou, China and came to Manchester as a teenager with his family after living in Hong Kong.
He is currently president of the charity Disabled Living, an envoy for the Manchester China Forum and a deputy lord lieutenant in Stockport.
He become the first Chinese president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2003.
The office of the High Sheriff can be traced back more than 1,000 years.
They were appointed to act as the Sovereign’s representative but today the role is essentially symbolic, ceremonial and unpaid.