He became the first student from Class D to be granted a university scholarship. However, he later received a scholarship to the University of Hong Kong. Ho studied at Queen's College, Hong Kong, at which he attended Class D - the lowest class level in the then Hong Kong Class System - owing to unsatisfactory academic results. : 187, 195 Ho was the ninth of thirteen children of Ho Sai-kwong (何世光). His grandfather was Ho Fook (何福), brother of the merchant Sir Robert Ho Tung. Ho was descended from his great-grandfather, Charles Henry Maurice Bosman (1839–1892), who was of Dutch Jewish ancestry, and his Chinese mistress, Sze Tai (施娣) a local Bao'an (present-day Shenzhen and Hong Kong) woman. He was of Chinese, Dutch-Jewish and English ancestry. Ho died on at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital. Having suffered a stroke in July 2009, followed by a long period of recovery, Ho began steps in late 2010 to devolve his grip on his financial empire to his various wives and children. In his later years, he had been involved in litigation with his sister, Winnie Ho, concerning the ownership of the Macau casino. His opinions and statements on Hong Kong's real estate and commercial development had considerable sway on the market. Apart from Hong Kong and Macau, he also invested in mainland China, Portugal, North Korea where he operated a casino, Vietnam, the Philippines, Mozambique, Indonesia and East Timor. It is estimated that his businesses employ almost one-fourth of the workforce of Macau. Ho was the founder and chairman of Shun Tak Holdings, through which he owned many businesses including entertainment, tourism, shipping, real estate, banking, and air transport. His wealth was divided among his daughter, Pansy Ho ($5.3 billion) who owns MGM Macau, fourth wife Angela Leong ($4.1 billion) who is managing director of SJM Holdings, and son Lawrence Ho ($2.6 billion) who owns City of Dreams. Ho was nicknamed variously Godfather and King of Gambling, reflecting the government-granted monopoly he held on the Macau gambling industry for 40 years. He was the founder and chairman of SJM Holdings, which owns nineteen casinos in Macau including the Grand Lisboa. His original patrilineal surname was Bosman, which was later sinicized to 何 (Ho). Stanley Ho Hung-sun GBM GLM GBS GML OBE CStJ SPMP SPMT ( Chinese: 何鴻燊 25 November 1921 – ) was a Hong Kong- Macau billionaire businessman.

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