Eu Tong Sen
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Eu Tong Sen OBE RM |
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Eu Tong Sen
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| Native name | 余東旋 |
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23 July 1877 Foshan, Guangdong, China |
| Died | 11 May 1941 (aged 63) Hong Kong |
| Occupation | Businessman |
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| Traditional Chinese | 余東旋 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 余东旋 | ||||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Yú Dōngxuán |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | ju4 dung1 syun4 |
Eu Tong Sen OBE RM (Chinese: 余東旋; 23 July 1877 – 11 May 1941) was a leading businessman in Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong during the late 19th and early 20th century. He was vice-president of the Anti-Opium Society and a member of the Kinta Sanitary Board.
Eu was born in George Town, Penang, British Malaya. His grandfather, He Song, a feng shui master, was originally from Jiangxi but moved to Foshan in Guangdong, China. His father, Eu Kong Pui (a.k.a. Eu Kong) became a Chinese immigrant from Foshan and went to Penang to work as a grocery shop assistant and later laid the foundation for his son's fortune by starting tin mining and other businesses. Tong Sen's mother Leong Lay Yong stayed in Foshan until brought to Penang, where Eu Kong had married a second wife Mun Woon Chang who was well-connected in Malaya, and where he died prematurely in 1890 at the age of 38.
Eu built his fortune by acquiring from the British, monopolies for tax or revenue farming (opium, alcohol or spirits, gambling and pawn broking) in Perak in the 1880s and when tin started to boom, he acquired land for mining tin. He expanded this to retailing and taxing goods from China that he sold to the miners he employed and set up a grocery shop in Gopeng that was later expanded to include a Chinese dispensary for Chinese immigrants. He operated his businesses under the mark Chop Yan Sang. He had two younger brothers, Eu Kong Chun and Eu Kong Tak. His business partner was Chiu Tong Hin and his attorney was Grant Mackie of the Straits Trading Company.
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