Shang Su Yi's will

**Shang Su Yi's Last Will and Testament** contained her wishes has to how her belongings and property would be divided among her many relatives and employees.

The final version was written by Su Yi in the presence of her granddaughter-in-law Fiona Tung Cheng and her brother Alfred Shang on the 9th of June, 2009, six years before her death.

The reading of her will was performed by her solicitor Freddy Tan, and held at the OCBC Centre in Singapore.

## Contents

* Appointment of Leonard Shang and Oliver T'sien as the co-executors

* Specific Cash Legacies
	+ $3,000,000 to Lee Ah Ling, housekeeper
	+ $2,000,000 to Lim Ah Ching, personal chef since 1965
	+ $1,000,000 to Jacob Theseira, gardener of Tyersall Park.
	+ $1,000,000 to each of her lady’s maids Madri Visudharomn and Patravadee Varoprakorn. Also given was antique Peranakan gold-and-diamond bracelets labeled for them in the Tyersall Park vault
	+ $500,000 to Vikram Ghale, who was head of security for protecting him since 1983. Algive given was a Type 14 Nambu pistol given by Count Hiaichi Terauchi
	+ $250,000 to Ahamad Bin Youssef, the chauffeur. He was also given the 1935 Hispano-Suiza Type 68 J12 Cabriolet
	+ Every remaining employee not mentioned to be given $50,000 each.

* Specific Legacies of Personal Property
	+ Jewelry collection to be distributed.
	+ All artwork, antiques, and other household goods to be given in equal shares as practical with the following provisions
		- Felicity Young Leong – collection of Celadon porcelain
		- Victoria Young – small painting of a woman by her bedroom window by Edouard Vuillard
		- Philip Young – all objects in Tyersall Park that belonged to his father James Young
		- Alexandra Young Cheng – collection of carved ivory-and-jade name seals because she was the only child to know Mandarin
		- Eleanor Sung – box of Santa Maria Novella Almond Soap
		- Astrid Leong – bequeathed entire collection of cheongsams, ceremonial robes, vintage textiles, hates, and accessories.
		- Cecilia Cheng Moncur – a Chinese scroll painting of a galloping herd of horses from the Northern Song period by Gonglin
	+ Oliver T’sien – pair of Emile -Jacques Ruhlmann table lamps and signed first edition of W. Somerset Maugham’s Far Eastern Tales
	+ Edison Cheng – a pair of Asprey sapphire-and-platinum cuff links – gifted to her husband on their golden anniversary by the Sultan of Perawak.
	+ Henry Leong Jr. and Peter Leong – nothing because they were attended to in her late husband’s Will

* Legacy of Historical Archives, Photographs, Documents, Personal Letters, and ephemera. - All ownership and all copyrights and IP rights of her personal archive to grandson Nicholas Young

* Legacy of Shares – all 1,000,000 Ling Holdings of shares returned to goddaughter Jacqueline Ling

* Residue of My Estate - The residue of estate consisted of: Cash and other financial instruments held at her banks (OCBC in Singapore, HSBC in Hong Kong, Bangkok Bank in Thailand, C. Hoare & Co. in London, Landolt & Cie in Switzerland). Directed that all the monies held in these institutions were to be used toward payment of the legacies specified in Clause 2. At the fulfilment of all the specific legacies, she requested any remaining monies be used to fund a new charitable foundation to be named THE YOUNG FOUNDATION, in memory of her late husband Sir James Young. Grandchildren Astrid Leong and Nicholas Young were appointed co-executors of the foundation.
* Legacies of Real Property – All property in Cameron Highlands to grandson Alexander Leong
	+ Chiang Mai, Thailand property given to Catherine Young Ankara. If she does not survive her, to her children James, Matthew, and Adam in equal shares
	+ Tyersall Park given in the following people in portions
		- Philip Young – 30 percent
		- Felicity Young - 12.5 percent
		- Catherine Young -12.5 percent
		- Victoria Young -12.5 percent
		- Alexandra Young Cheng - 12.5 percent
		- Nicholas Young 10 percent
		- Alistair Cheng 10 percent