High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Seow Sieu Jin (23 Jan 1907 - 13 Jul 1958) was a prominent and successful Singaporean banker brought up in a banking family, trained in China and England and was an important contributor to the growth and development of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) during its early years. Seow Sieu Jin's great-grandfather was from Jinjiang, China and his grandparents from Malacca but his father, Seow Poh Leng and mother Lilian Tan Lark Neo (also spelt Tan Luck Neo), great-granddaughter of philanthropist Tan Tock Seng, were both brought up in Singapore. He was born in 1907 and in his early years, was educated at home. He went on to study at the Anglo-Chinese School and then the Raffles Institution, graduating in 1923. He made some good friends at Raffles. Raffles Institution's history records that on the 1924 Armistice Day, Seow Siew Jin, Wee Seong Kang and David Saul Marshall laid a wreath at the Singapore Cenotaph. In 1925 he was made head prefect.