Sir Song Ong Siang

Files of press cutting and some loose items relating to Sir Song Ong Siang, lawyer and prominent Singaporean kept by Rev William Murray, English Presbyterian missionary in Singapore in preparation for a biography of Song. Song was the first Chinese in Malaya [Malaysia] to be knighted. Loose items in...

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Archive & Special Collections PCE/FMC/7/02/55 Open

Order number: PCE/FMC Series IV, Box 9
Date(s) of creation: 1890 - 1936
Level: File
Format: Archive           
Subjects:
Diaspora studies

collection SOAS Archive
id PCE.FMC.7.02.55
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with PCE/FMC Series IV, Box 9
callnumber PCE/FMC/7/02/55
callnumber_txt PCE/FMC/7/02/55
callnumber-sort PCE/FMC/7/02/55
prefix_number 55
title Sir Song Ong Siang
scb_date_creation 1890 - 1936
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
format Archive
scb_custodial_history Part of William Murray's personal papers passed to the Presbyterian Church of England after his death in 1946
description Files of press cutting and some loose items relating to Sir Song Ong Siang, lawyer and prominent Singaporean kept by Rev William Murray, English Presbyterian missionary in Singapore in preparation for a biography of Song. Song was the first Chinese in Malaya [Malaysia] to be knighted. Loose items include a letter from Song to Murray dated Oct 28th 1930, and address given by Song to the Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church of England, and several post cards. Also, cabinet-sized photograph of Song when a student at Cambridge and a later photograph of him taken in a Singapore studio.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number 6
scb_finding_aids Handlist available
scb-callnumber-first Diaspora studies
topic Diaspora studies
topic_facet Diaspora studies
hierarchy_top_id_raw PCE
hierarchy_sequence PCE.00FMC.007.0002.0055

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