Monday, May 9, 2022

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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