{"id":11571,"date":"2025-05-25T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T03:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?page_id=11571"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:38:54","slug":"19-lim-teck-ghee-mother","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/wayfinder\/19-lim-teck-ghee-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"19 LIM TECK GHEE \u6797\u5fb7\u7fa9 | YEO IM NEO \u6768\u6dd1\u61ff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tin Mining Magnate\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

LIM TECK GHEE <\/span>\u6797\u5fb7\u7fa9<\/span> (1830s\u20131891) Place of Ancestry: Gim Lee (\u9526\u91cc)
\n<\/span>YEO IM NEO \u6768\u6dd1\u61ff (1810s\u20131887) Place of\u00a0 Ancestry: Gim Lee (\u9526\u91cc)<\/span><\/p>\n

Lim was the eldest son of Lim Liak\u00a0 (1804\u20131875). His father invested in tin mining in the Kluang valley in the 1820s when methods had improved and a wave of Chinese\u00a0 immigrants were arriving\u00a0 to fill\u00a0 jobs in the labour intensive industry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Lim was to grow his father\u2019s mining operations and earn the trust of British resident Frank Swettenham, who appointed him\u00a0 <\/span>Financial Administrator of Selangor in 1874. He was impressed with how Lim <\/span>managed the civil war in Selangor which broke out in 1867. The civil war was related to the control of the tin mining industry.\u00a0 A succession dispute among Malay leaders escalated into a conflict involving the two major rival Chinese secret societies that controlled the workers in the tin mines – Hai San and Ghee Hin. Lim provided financial support to the Selangor Royal family throughout the seven years of conflict until British intervention occurred.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the war, Teck Ghee was the largest individual holder of the Selangor State Debt Bonds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Lim Liak established with business partners a trading company in Singapore in 1925, named “Leack, Chin Seng & Co, Chop Hiap Hin”<\/em> on Market Street. The company became the largest supplier of goods from China to migrant workers and expanded operations to Malacca.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The family bought land in Tiong Bahru where one of the streets was name after Lim Leack\u00a0 and\u00a0 in Toa Payoh there was a 14 hectare plantation\u00a0 situated around Adam Drive and Sime Road.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the municipal minutes of 10 November 1886, the colonial government agreed to the internment of Yeo Im Neo on the plantation as there were no other suitable grounds for the \u201chigher status\u201d Chinese. Within this property, two\u00a0 acres were designated as burial land where Lim and his mother were laid to rest. In 1905, a portion of the land was acquired by the government for the expansion of MacRitchie Reservoir. Later in 1935, the graves of mother and son were exhumed, and their tombstones\u00a0 relocated to Bukit Brown Cemetery. The remaining land was also subsequently acquired by the government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lim’s tomb features an inscription with various names he was known by, following the Chinese practice\u00a0 that commemorates significant moments in a person’s life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201c\u8c25\u201d<\/b> indicates Lim\u2019s posthumous name Jian Rang (\u4fed\u8ba9). <\/span>\u201c\u5b57\u201d<\/b> indicates his given name, Teck Ghee (\u5fb7\u4e49). <\/span>\u201c\u53f7<\/b>\u201d indicates his alias, Shi Fang (\u58eb\u82b3) – the last possibly for business purposes,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His mother\u2019s tomb is inscribed with:<\/span> \u7687\u6e05\u986f\u59a3\u8b1a\u6dd1\u61ff\u6797\u9580\u694a\u6c0f\u5893<\/b>,Qing dynasty Honorable Mother, (Posthumous) Virtuous Mdm Yeo of Lim Family<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Elsewhere in Bukit Brown, in Block 2,\u00a0 is his brother Teck Whee\u2019s grave\u00a0 which was\u00a0 relocated\u00a0 from Tiong Bahru.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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circa 1932 A visit by descendants to Lim Teck Whee’s relocated grave in Bukit Brown (photo credit : Lim Soon Hoe)<\/p><\/div>\n

by\u00a0Catherine Lim <\/strong>and Lim Soon Hoe<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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