death_date death_place religion birth_place children party office birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name occupation
21 january 2006 uk liverpool , united kingdom christian february 2012 straits settlements singapore , straits settlements ruth chan , stehen chan crossbencher life peer in the house of lords 6 march 1940 2 june 2001 irene chee michael chan , baron chan
 21 january 2006 the lord chan physician and politician
michael chan , baron chan

michael chew koon chan , baron chan 曾秋坤 , mbe -lrb- 6 march 1940 -- 21 january 2006 -rrb- was a singaporean -- british physician and politician , of chinese descent .
chan was born in singapore , where his family were members of the christian minority .
he was educated at raffles institution , and moved to the united kingdom to study medicine at guy 's hospital medical school .
he trained as a paediatrician , specialising in blood diseases .
he returned to singapore after his studies , becoming a lecturer and consultant paediatrician at the university of singapore , but returned to the uk in 1974 to study von willebrand 's disease at the university of london institute of child health at great ormond street hospital .
he moved to the liverpool school of tropical medicine in 1976 , where he remained until 1994 as a senior clinical lecturer and consultant paediatrician .
he was director of the nhs ethnic health unit in leeds between 1994 and 1997 , and was successively director of two nhs primary health trusts from 1999 .
he was also active in the field of race relations , serving as an advisor to the home secretary and then as a commissioner for the commission for racial equality between 1990 and 1995 , and as a member of the sentencing panel from 1999 .
he became a member of the press complaints commission in 2002 , and he was chairman of the chinese in britain forum .
he was a committed christian and elder of the liverpool chinese gospel church , undertaking various charitable works , for which he was appointed mbe in 1991 .
he was made a life peer in 2001 , becoming baron chan , of oxton in the county of merseyside , chosen as a `` people 's peer '' .
he sat as a crossbencher .
he became the second person of chinese descent to take a seat in either of the houses of parliament , after baroness dunn .
chan is survived by his wife irene wei-len chee , his son , stephen , and daughter , ruth .
since chan 's death , lord wei has been the only ethnic chinese peer in the house of lords , as baroness dunn gave up her seat in the lords in order to retain her non-domiciled tax status following the passing of the constitutional reform and governance act 2010 .
