Lim Bo Seng was the
11th child but the
first son of Lim Chee Gee.
At the
age of 16, he
came to Singapore and studied at
Raffles Institution. He discontinued his education at the
University of Hong Kong in 1929 when, upon his father's death, he
inherited senior Lim's businesses which included the
Hock Ann Biscuits and factories for brick manufacturing.
In
1930,
he
married Gan Choo Neo, a Straits-born Nonya with whom he had seven children. It was a
love marriage, unusual in those days.
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