Leong Fee Mansion, Penang

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Leong Fee Mansion is a two-storey bungalow at the junction of Leith Street and Northam Road, opposite Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion. The mansion which today houses the Akademi Seni Equator, was built by Leong P'i Joo, also known as Leong Fee, the father of Leong Yin Kean. It was built in 1900 as Leong Fee's Penang residence.

Leong Fee Mansion (20 November 2010)
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Leong Fee (1857-1911) was one of the Hakka tycoons who made his home along Leith Street. He was born of Kar Yin Hakka extraction, in Guangdong province, China. He arrived in Malaya in 1876, settling first in Penang, and from there moved to Perak, where he struck his fortune in the tin mines of Taiping. From there, he also established mines in the Kinta Valley.

Leong Fee, along with his contemporaries Cheong Fatt Tze and Chung Keng Kwee, were the pillars of society in Penang and Perak. He was appointed Justice for Kinta in 1892 and a member of the Perak State Council from 1895 to 1908. He was the Chinese Vice-Consul of the Manchu Government in Penang from 1901 to 1907, and was the first Chinese member of the Federal Legislative Council in 1909. He married the daughter of another local tycoon, Hsieh Yung-kuan, who served as the Vice-Consul of the Manchu Government before him.

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