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Tun Sir Tan Cheng Lock KBE, SMN, DPMJ, JP ( simplified Chinese: 陈祯禄; traditional Chinese: 陳禎祿; pinyin: Chén Zhēnlù; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Cheng-lo̍k) (5 April 1883 – 13 December 1960) was a Malaysian Peranakan businessman and a key public figure who devoted his life to fighting for the rights and the social welfare of the ...
Tun Dato' Sir Tan Cheng Lock SMN DPMJ KBE JP (Cina Ringkas: 陈祯禄; Cina Tradisional: 陳禎祿; pinyin: Chén Zhēnlù, 5 April 1883 – 13 Disember 1960) ialah seorang pemimpin politik Cina di Tanah Melayu yang merupakan presiden pertama Persatuan Cina Tanah Melayu (MCA) pada tahun 1949.
Tan Cheng Lock was a Malaysian Chinese community leader, politician, and businessman. Born into a wealthy Straits Chinese family with shipping and plantation interests, Tan Cheng Lock was an early beneficiary of the economic growth of Malaya under colonial rule.
Tun Tan Cheng Lock was a public leader who contributed a lot to the struggles of the Chinese community in Malaya especially in the fields of politics, education and social welfare. He was born on 5th. April 1883 at Heeren Street, Melaka and was the third son in a family of seven sisters and brothers.
Apr 12, 2024 · Tan Cheng Lock is a member of the Chinese Weekly Entertainment Club, Singapore; his hobbies are reading and literature; served as a Volunteer in the Chinese Volunteer Company, Malacca, from 1915 to 1919, after he had helped to revive it on the out-break of the Great War in 1914.
Tun Tan Cheng Lock was a key public figure who devoted his life to fight for the rights and the social welfare of the Chinese community in Malaya. Tun Tan Cheng Lock was responsible for securing basic rights and respect for the local Chinese – these include citizenship based on jus soli (the principle that a person’s nationality is ...
May 10, 2022 · Tan Cheng Lock was born in Malacca in 1883. His father Tan Keong Ann, his illustrious grandfather Tan Choon Bock, and his great grandfather were also born there, while his great great grandfather Tan Hay Kwan, who had migrated from Fukien as a youth to Malacca in the latter part of the eighteenth century ( circa 1765), had died there in 1801.
Dato Sir (now Tun) Cheng-lock Tan is best known today for his. leadership of the Malayan Chinese after the Second World War, in. connection with the Federation of Malaya constitutional proposals, the. Emergency, and the attainment of independence by Malaya. Even before.
This paper is based on the papers of the late Tan Cheng Lock, loaned to me in 1961 by his widow, and now deposited at the National Archives, Malaysia. 1 A prisoner in Pudu Prison, Kuala Lumpur, writing for help on 14 Jan. 1955, said, "I can still
Tan Cheng Lock was born on 5 April 1883 into a rich and prominent Straits Chinese family in Malacca. He received his education at the Malacca High School and completed his Cambridge Certificate at Singapore’s Raffles Institution (RI).
