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- He was a third-generation Malaccan.
- He helped to stop the Great Riot between Hokkiens and Teochews in 1854.
- He believed in the value of real estate and was once the biggest landowner in Singapore.
- Unlike others in his generation, he made sure that his wife and daughters would be financially independent after his death.
- He was the first Chinese to give a Western-style ball in Singapore.
- He founded the first Chinese school in Singapore.
- He commissioned a poem from which his descendants derive their generation names.
- His well-planned will was dismantled by English Law.
- He could speak English and Dutch.
- His princely donation to allow fresh water to be brought into Singapore town was wasted by the colonial government.