Benjamin Sheares
Benjamin Henry Sheares, GCB, was a Singaporean politician and professor. He served as the second President of Singapore. Before his presidency, Sheares was a well known and distinguished obstetrician and gynaecologist. He graduated from King Edward VII College of Medicine in 1929 with a medical degree and began his career at the General Hospital . During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, Sheares was the head of the OampG department at Kandang Kerbau Hospital and was appointed acting professor of OampG after the war. He then went for further studies at Royal Postgraduate Medical School in Britain in 1947 and became a full professor in 1950 at the hospital after his return.
Benjamin Sheares was born the second of six children in Singapore to a Eurasian family with an English lineage. His father Edwin H. Sheares, a technical supervisor of the Public Works Department, was born in England and raised in India. Edwin later migrated to Penang and married Singaporeborn Lilian Gmez, of Chinese Singaporean and Spanish descent, and had six children160 the first died in infancy. Life was hard for the Sheares family with the meagre salary that Edwin received from his post.
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