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Seow Sieu Jin (23 Jan 1907 – 13 July 1958) was a prominent and successful Singaporean banker brought up in a banking family, trained in China and England and was an important contributor to the growth and development of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) during its early years.〔Chen Wei Long, A Second Generation Banker, Sin Chew Jit Poh, 26 July 1971〕〔Betty Lim Koon Teck, ''A Rose on My Pillow—Recollections of a Nyonya'', Armour Publishing, Singapore, 1994〕 Seow Sieu Jin's great-grandfather was from Jinjiang, China and his grandparents from Malacca but his father, Seow Poh Leng and mother Lilian Tan Lark Neo (also spelt Tan Luck Neo), great-granddaughter of philanthropist Tan Tock Seng, were both brought up in Singapore.〔〔Seow Poh Leng〕〔 == Early years == He was born in 1907, grew up at 117 Emerald Hill, and in his early years, was educated at home. He went on to study at the Anglo-Chinese School and then the Raffles Institution, graduating in 1923.〔 He made some good friends at Raffles. Raffles Institution's history records that on the 1924 Armistice Day, Seow Siew Jin, Wee Seong Kang and David Saul Marshall laid a wreath at the Singapore Cenotaph.〔A History of Raffles Institution, 1823–1963 By Eugene Wijeysingha Published by University Education Press, 1963; pp. 119, 174.〕 In 1925 he was made head prefect.〔The Eagle Breeds a Gryphon: The Story of Raffles Institution, 1823–1985? – Page 344 by Eugene Wijeysingha, 1989, 354 pages.〕 His father then took him to Shanghai, there to be rigorously trained at the Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank under his father's friend, K. P. Chen, the founder of that bank, into whose care he was entrusted.〔〔Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society By Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Malayan Branch Published by The Branch, 1923; Item notes: v.26 1953; pp. 120–123〕 After three years of training and a short visit with his family in Singapore, his father took him to London where he simultaneously joined the Midland Bank as one of its staff and took up the banking course at the Institute of Bankers.〔〔 Anyone who had passed all the banking courses offered by the English Institute of Bankers had the best qualifications in the banking profession and Seow Sieu Jin was one of the first in Singapore and Malaysia to have acquired these qualifications.〔〔 He also received training at the most modern commercial bank in China at that time, the Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank, and he received the guidance of his banker father.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seow Sieu Jin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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