Cheah Tek Soon (original) (raw)

Cheah Tek Soon (Chinese: 謝德順; pinyin: Xiè Déshùn) was a 19th-century Penang businessman, and headman of the Hokkien in Penang, after whom Tek Soon Street was named. He was an active member of the Penang community and the bandstand that was erected near the Town Hall before the Japanese Occupation was his gift to the city. Cheah Tek Soon never married but he had an adopted daughter, Cheah Liew Bee, who was the biological child of his brother, Cheah Tek Thye.