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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