Lim Han Hoe

Sir Han Hoe Lim, CBE, JP (27 April 1894 – 23 March 1983), was a Singaporean physician and politician who was appointed an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements in 1933, becoming the Council's senior Chinese unofficial member the next year, and was concurrently appointed an unofficial member of the Executive Council in 1940. After the war, he was an unofficial member of the Singapore Advisory Council from 1946 to 1948 and the senior unofficial member of the Executive Council of Singapore from 1948 to 1951.

Sir Han Hoe Lim
林漢河爵士
Born27 April 1894
Died23 March 1983(1983-03-23) (aged 88)
Singapore
Occupationphysician, politician
Lim Han Hoe
Traditional Chinese林漢河
Simplified Chinese林汉河

Lim was educated at Chong Cheng School, Saint Andrew's School, Raffles Institution and King Edward VII Medical School. Later on, he studied medicine in the United Kingdom, graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1918. After graduation, he took up private practice in Singapore and he became interested in the public affairs of the city. Before the Second World War, he was the chairman of the city's Straits Chinese British Association from 1930 to 1932, a Municipal Commissioner of the Municipal Commission, an unofficial Justice of the Peace, as well as a member of a number of public bodies like the Chinese Advisory Board and the Education Committee.

Lim was arrested after the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942. During the occupation years, he was imprisoned for being accused of secretly listening to the broadcasting of the Allied nations. He was not released until the end of the Second World War in 1945. In the following year, he became the second Malayan Chinese to receive the honour of knighthood. After the war, he helped found the University of Malaya and was appointed a member of the Public Service Commission from 1952 to 1956, serving as its chairman for less than a year in 1956. Later in his life, he withdrew from politics as Singapore gradually gained self-rule and independence.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Tan Cheng Lock
Senior Chinese unofficial member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements
1934–1942
Succeeded by
Japanese occupation
Preceded by
New creation
Senior unofficial member of the Executive Council of Singapore
1948–1951
Succeeded by
E. M. F. Fergusson
Preceded by
A. W. Frisby
Chairman of the Public Service Commission
1956
Succeeded by
W. L. Blythe
Party political offices
Preceded by
Wee Swee Teow
Chairman of the Straits Chinese British Association
1930–1932
Succeeded by
Sir Ong Siang Song

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