Background
Mr. Cheng was born in Xiangshan, Guangdong, China, July 10, 1884.
University of London, London, United Kingdom
From 1907 - 1912 F.T. Cheng studied at the University of London.
Mr. Cheng was born in Xiangshan, Guangdong, China, July 10, 1884.
Cheng F. T. received his early education in Hong Kong (Queen's College). He went to England in 1907 and studied law at University of London, graduating with honors in 1912. Mr. Cheng was called to the bar in 1913, after which he did research work in law and obtained the degree of Doctor of Laws from London University, being the first Chinese to gain a doctorate in law in a British university.
Cheng was elected member of the Grotius Society of London in 1916. He was a member of the International Law Association, London, in 1917. Also, Cheng F. T. was a member of the Academy of Social and Political Science (America) since 1935.
He returned to China in 1917 and was admitted to the Hong Kong bar. Mr. Cheng went to Peking toward the end of 1917 and was appointed chief compiler of the law codification commission in 1918, 1920 and 1922. From 1919 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court. Cheng F. T. worked as a technical expert of the Chinese delegation to the Washington Conference in 1921.
Mr. Cheng was known to be a deputy delegate to the International Commission on Extraterritoriality. From 1928 till 1934 Cheng F. T.served as a legal practitioner in Shanghai, and concurrently professor of law at the Comparative Law School of China, Shanghai, 1929. He held the post of a Vice-Minister of Justice between 1932 and 1934.
Cheng F. T. was advisor to the Ministry of Justice and special commissioner of the National Government to supervise the Chinese Art Exhibition in London.
He was an author of "Private International Law Relating to Capacity to Contract", "Translation of Supreme Court Decisions", "Prize Court Judgments and Prize Regulations", "Draft Criminal and Civil Codes of the Criminal Procedure" and various other miscellaneous laws.