| Title: | Rags to Riches - Lim Boon Keng |
| Source: | 100 INSPIRING RAFFLESIANS, 1823-2003 (pp 109-110)
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| Author(s): | Guan Heng Tan
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| Abstract: | Lim Boon Keng's success story is the stuff of which every schoolboy's dreams are made of. At the age of 16, he was faced with the prospect of leaving school, but he became the first Singaporean Queen's Scholar. The Queen's Scholarship was a prestigious scholarship previously awarded only to the children of expatriates. Later, Lim Boon Keng used his wealth and influence for the benefit of education and the community. In the 1950s, he was affectionately known as 'The Grand Old Man of Singapore'… |
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