Notable Queen's Scholars

Sejak penubuhan Queen's Scholar hingga ia dihentikan pada 1957 ramai penerima berasal dari Singapura. Berikut adalah senarai Queen's Scholar yang dipetik dari sumber berikut (e-resources sg -link):

Notable recipients;

1887: Lim Boon Keng, first Straits Chinese medical doctor, community leader, philanthropist, president of Amoy University.

1888: Song Ong Siang, first Straits Chinese barrister and knight, historian.

1889: CM Philips, principal of Raffles College.

1904: Noel Clarke, Eurasian Association president, legislative councillor.

1904 (FMS): Chan Sze Jin, lawyer, legislative councillor.

1908: Tun Leong Kew Yoh, Governor of Malacca.

1924: Tan Ah Tan, Singapore’s first local Puisne Judge in the High Court.

1929: Tan Thoon Lip, Singapore’s first local Registrar of the Singapore Supreme Court.

1930: Maggie Tan, first female to win the Queen's Scholarship.

1935: Ahmad Mohammed Ibrahim, state advocate general who drafted Singapore pre-1965 constitution, and served as Attorney-General and an Ambassador.

1937: Ismail bin Mohammed Ali, first Malay Governor of Bank Negara.

1937 (FMS): Lim Chong Eu, served as Chief Minister of Penang.

1938: Lim Kok Ann, University of Singapore’s youngest professor, later its Dean of Medicine.

1940: Maurice Baker, educator, ambassador, pro-chancellor.42

1946: EW Barker, Speaker of Parliament, Minister for Law, National Development, Environment, Labour.

1947: Kwa Geok Choo, co-founder, Lee and Lee; leading conveyancing lawyer; wife of the future prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew.

1955: Hwang Peng Yuan, Economic Development Board chairman, Temasek Holdings vice chairman, ambassador.

1955: Wong Lin Ken, first Singaporean Ambassador to the US and the UN, Home Affairs Minister, historian. [author the malayan tin industry to 1914]

1957: Lim Pin, Vice Chancellor, National University of Singapore.

Fellows

1940: Benjamin Sheares, leading obstetrician, second President of Singapore.

1941: Kenneth M. Byrne, first PAP Minister for Labour and Law.

1954: Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam, leading pathologist; Dean of Medicine, University of Singapore.

Baca juga overseas chinese in the british empire (link).

The three editors of Straits Chinese Magazine (from left), Song Ong Siang, Queen's Scholar 1888; Dr Wu Lien-Teh, Queen's Scholar 1896; and Dr Lim Boon Keng, Queen's Scholar 1887

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Queen's Scholar 1896 - Wu Lien Teh

Pemegang tunggal QS tahun 1896 adalah Wu Lien Teh. Beliau berasal dari Penang. Wu merupakan pelajar perubatan pertama warga Cina Cambridge University. Wu pernah dicalun Hadiah Noble pada 1935. Pencalunan tersebut atas usaha beliau dalam bidang physiology (perubatan).

Baca wiki - link.

Wu Lien Teh (d.1960)

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Queen's Scholar 1888 - Dunstan Alfred Aeria

Dunstan Alfred Aeria merupakan seorang lagi kelahiran Penang yang berjaya menyandang Queen's Scholar.

Dunstan A. Aeria, like his predecessor, studied first at the Northern Settlement, and finished at the Raffles Institution. He passed in civil engineering in London. After doing good business at Kuala Lumpur, he has settled in Singapore, and is engaged on construction work at Johore. [source: teochiew - link]

Petikan - contractors (link):

Dunstan Alfred Aeria, son of Cecil Clement Aeria and Paulin Aeria, came from a well-known Eurasian family from Penang. Among his brothers were F.L Aeria, a Justice of Peace in Penang, and Dr. W. Aeria who was based in Waterloo Street, Singapore. Dunstan was a student at St. Xavier’s Institution in Penang before enrolling at Raffles Institution in Singapore. He won a Queen’s Scholarship and was given the opportunity to further his studies in Europe.

Upon his return, he joined the Selangor Railway Department on 4 January 1893 as an Assistant Engineer, mainly in charge of civil works for the Tanjong Malim extension. Dunstan however chose to resign from government service in September 1898 to venture into contracting and was reported to be somewhat involved in the construction of the Government Printing Office, Carcosa, Chief Secretary’s Residence, Masjid Jamek, Convent and the Paterson, Simon & Co. building in Kuala Lumpur (please note that we’ve not been able to confirm the capacity of his involvement).

In 1913, he established an office at Klyne Street, at the corner of Courts of Justice Road before moving to Muar in 1918 after securing a contract to build the Muar Government buildings. His stay in Muar lasted until 1922, as he then moved to MacKenzie Road in Singapore, obtaining work with the Public Works Department and eventually assuming a role as the Superintendent of Works for Messr. Gammon & Co.

As a Contractor, he won the tenders to build two buildings designed by AB Hubback, which are the British Residency in Seremban and the FMS Survey Office in Kuala Lumpur.

Dunstan (1870-1925)

(source: genie (link)

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Queen's Scholars Year 1887-1889

Berikut adalah maklumat mengenai pemenang Queen's Scholar pada period 1887 hingga 1889.

1887: Dr. Lim Boon Keng, PVS Locke

1888: Sir Song Ong Siang (Singapore), Dunstan Alfred Aeria (Penang)

1889: H. A. Scott

1887 - PVS Locke from Penang Free School, and won a scholarship from the Raffles Institution. He graduated M.B., Ch.B., at Edinburgh, and returned to Penang, where he built up a large practice. He was Penang first Queen's scholar.

Lim Boon Keng from Raffles Institution. Lim became the first Chinese in Singapore to win the Queen's Scholarship. This enabled him to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Lim Boon Keng's choice of medicine was apparently determined by two personal episodes. His father Thean Geow died of blood poisoning after a razor cut and no doctor could help him. Also, one of Lim's brothers died at the age of 7 after falling off a chair. These two unfortunate accidents affected Lim deeply and he resolved to study medicine so he could save lives and heal the sick.

1888 - Dunstan Alfred Aeria, like his predecessor, studied first at the Northern Settlement, and finished at the Raffles Institution. He passed in civil engineering in London. After doing good business at Kuala Lumpur, he has settled in Singapore, and is engaged on construction work at Johore.

Song Ong Siang (1871-1941) studied  law at Cambridge.

1889 - H. A. Scott was a Raffles scholar

Read penang queen's scholars. bspot (link).

Raffles Instituion at Bras Basah

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Queen's Scholar - Charles Spence Angus & James Aitken

Bagaimana bermulanya QS? Sedikit petikan info yang diperolehi dari sebuah laman menyebut (link):

In 1885, Governor Cecil Clementi Smith introduced the first Higher Scholarships for boys in the Straits Settlements. The inaugural Higher Scholarship examinations were held in 1885 but no one passed, although RI’s Charles Spence Angus emerged top. These examinations were heavily criticised for their unrealistic expectations, and it was decided that the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate should set the examinations for 1886.

In that examination, four Rafflesians obtained top scores. The two best candidates, Song Ong Siang (1871–1941) and J. A. Remedios were disqualified, Song on account of being under-aged, and Remedios because he was not a British subject. The first scholarships were thus awarded to Charles Spence Angus and James Aitken. Song topped the examinations again in 1887, and then in 1888, before he was allowed to take up the Scholarship, having by then attained the age of 18.

Charles Angus and James Aitken who went on to study Engineering and Law respectively. Angus would later return to join the Perak Government, while Aitken would go on to set up a law firm with Song Ong Siang, a Queen’s Scholar in 1888.

Queen's Scholar  1886-1888

(Rear left to right) James Aitken, Charles Spence Angus, P. V. Locke, D. A. Aeria 

(Front left to right) Lim Boon Keng, and Song Ong Siang. These young men represented the cream of Singapore’s brightest minds.

Sedikit info ringkas keluarga Spencer boleh baca di sini (link). Disebut bahawa Spencer (b.1865) dan ibu beliau bernama Rabeah (?).

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