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

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