Talk:Lim Yew Hock

Christmas island sold by Lim Yew Hock?
The above mentioned island was transferred from the British to Australia. It belonged to the British. (http://www.nlb.gov.sg/sure/did-singapore-sell-christmas-island-to-australia/)

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Personal life
Lim Yew Hock had one daughter, not two, from his second marriage. For details of his two marriages, please refer to his autobiography written in around 1980 and published posthumously in 1986, entitled Reflections.


 * I got married in 1937.  From this marriage, I got a son, who is a civil engineer, and three daughters, one of whom is doing very well running her own commercial art designing establishment.  (page 11)


 * I married a Chinese Muslim convert and Allah has blessed us with a lovely daughter who is now six years old.  I have aptly named her Hayati to mean that she is my life, my hope and my inspiration!  My wife and my young daughter are a great comfort to me in my old age.  (page 123)

The following are extracts from the entry of Lim, written by Albert Lau, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (published 2009):-


 * In 1937 he married Chia Kim Neo, with whom he had a son and three daughters.


 * Leaving his troubled marriage, he converted to Islam to start life afresh in July 1972, taking the name Haji Omar Lim.  He married a Chinese Muslim convert, Hajjah Hasnah Abdullah, with whom he had a daughter, Hayati, and moved to Saudi Arabia as an official of the Islamic Conference.”

The source you have quoted (i.e. Infopedia) relies on an obituary published by a newspaper at the time of his death in 1984. I notice the following line in the obituary:-


 * Mr Lim leaves behind a wife, Puan Hajjah Hasnah Abdullah, and two children, one of whom planned to fly to Jeddah next week to visit him.

The quoted line from the obituary is strangely worded as it neither mentions the condition of his first wife nor specifies whether the "two children" refer to those from the first, second or both marriages. The writer of the obituary may be ill informed and unfamiliar with the personal life of Lim. In view of the more authoritative sources I have quoted above, the conflicting piece of information from Infopedia appears to be unreliable and should not be quoted. --Clithering (talk) 12:27, 18 January 2019 (UTC)