| Title: | Lord Chan of Oxton - Michael Chan Chew Koon |
| Source: | 100 INSPIRING RAFFLESIANS, 1823-2003 (pp 23-24)
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| Author(s): | Guan Heng Tan
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| Abstract: | Michael Chan Chew Koon alias Lord Chan of Oxton read Dick Whittington, and how the streets of London were paved with gold as a schoolboy and a British subject. As Lord Chan of Oxton, he journeyed there to debate with the British nobility and aristocracy. He was the first Singaporean and the first Chinese to be appointed as an independent life peer in the House of Lords. His father, Chan Chieu Kim, was a former Principal of RI and the first Commissioner for Civil Defence… |
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