Lim Han Hoe
Sir Han Hoe Lim, CBE, JP (27 April 1894 – 23 March 1983), was a Singaporean physician and politician. Lim 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. 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, Lim worked at St Andrew's Hospital in Scotland for a year. Lim was then appointed as ship's surgeon by the China Mutual Steamship Company and he returned to Singapore. Lim started his general practice in Singapore. Lim 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. In 1933 Lim was appointed an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements. On 12 June 1941, Lim was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public services in the Straits Settlements. 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 1946, Lim became the second Malayan Chinese to receive the honour of knighthood for public services in the Straits Settlements. In June 1946, he was appointed to the Singapore Advisory Council after Wee Swee Teow resigned. In December 1947, the Governor of Singapore decided to introduce income tax in Singapore, against the advice of the Singapore Advisory Council's decision. The unofficial members of the Council, including Lim, decided to resign in protest of the decision. Lim decided later not to resign and also proposed to ask the two resigned members to withdraw their resignations . In 1951, Lim was conferred honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Malaya. In December 1951, Lim resigned from the Executive Council of Singapore due to ill health and was replaced by Rajabali Jumabhoy. 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.