Song Ong Siang
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Song Ong Siang, was a lawyer and active citizen of the British Colony of Singapore. He was a third-generation Straits Chinese or Peranakan Baba (Peranakan term for man), and the first ever Asian in Singapore to be knighted. Sir Song was noted for his worthy contributions to the development of the Singapore civil society, and was held in the highest esteem throughout the Colony. He was born on June 14, 1871 in Singapore to Song Hoot Kiam, the founder of the Straits Chinese Church (now Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church) and Ms Phan Fung Lean, a…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Song Ong Siang, was a lawyer and active citizen of the British Colony of Singapore. He was a third-generation Straits Chinese or Peranakan Baba (Peranakan term for man), and the first ever Asian in Singapore to be knighted. Sir Song was noted for his worthy contributions to the development of the Singapore civil society, and was held in the highest esteem throughout the Colony. He was born on June 14, 1871 in Singapore to Song Hoot Kiam, the founder of the Straits Chinese Church (now Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church) and Ms Phan Fung Lean, a wife from Elder Song's second marriage. He was the eldest son from Song Hoot Kiam's second marriage the youngest of the three sons of borne from Elder Song's two marriages. As a youth, Sir Song studied at The Raffles Institution and briefly at Christian Brothers' School (now St. Joseph's institution). He was a brilliant student, and won the Guthrie Scholarship at the age of 12 a record he had continued to hold for five consecutive years.