21. Dr Awang bin Hassan (1910-1998)

Dr Awang bin Hassan (1910-1998)
LMS 1934 KEVII

Date of birth: 9 November 1910
Place of birth: Muar, Johor
Date of death: 12 September 1998
Place of death: Johor Bharu
Place of burial: -

Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia (1973-1980)
5th Governor of Penang (May 1981-May 1989)

Family tree:
From Salasilah Tok Abdul Jabbar (limited info)
http://www.siapamoyanganda.com/salasilah/fam01260.html

From pages 383-396, Biography of the Early Malay Doctors (2012):
His grandfather was from China
His father was of Bugis ancestry from Celebes
His mother was of Chinese ancestry

His brother, Ali bin Hassan, graduated in Law in England, and served in Malaysian Govt. He then became a judge in Malaysia.

Union: Tun Awang married on 18 March 1934
Wife #1: Toh Puan Khatijah bt Abdul Rahman bin Mohamed Yassin
      Children: 7 (4 boys and 3 girls)

1. Puan Zahrah bt Awang (KL) - retired
2. Dato' Dr Hussein Awang - urologist, Hospital Tawakkal, KL, performed first kidney transplant in Malaysia
3. En Mohamad bin Awang (Melbourne) - teacher
4. Puan Animah bt Awang (KL) - retired accountant
5. Tan Sri Dr Yahya bin Awang (KL) - cardiologist; married to Puan Sri Datuk Dr Suraya Hani bt Tun Hussein*
6. En Mazlan Awang - businessman; father of Dr Luqman Mazlan (HUKM)
7. Fatimah Awang

Toh Puan Khatijah passed away and Tun Dr Awang remarried.

Wife #2: Dr Zubaidah bt Abdul Rahman (younger sister of Toh Puan Khatijah)

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Hayati Meah was a former Penang state cricketer and hockey player. He was an engineer at JKR Butterworth. His son Zainuddin Meah bin Hayati Meah was also a Penang state cricketer and married to one of Tun Dr Awang's daughters, and settled at Harta Emas in KL. - from Abdul Mutalib Wahab in Facebook.

Hayati Meah and Zainuddin Meah in Malay cricket:
http://www.malaycricket.org.my/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=158&Itemid=20

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*Daughter of PM weds doctor today

The Straits Times, 24 November 1977, Page 13

Kuala Lumpur, Wed.-

Dr. Suraiya Hani binti Hussein, 26, daughter of the Prime Minister, will marry Dr. Yahya Awang, 27, son of the Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia, Dr. Awang Hassan, at Seri Taman here tomorrow.

The akad nikah will be followed by the bersanding ceremony on Friday evening to which over 3,000 guests have been invited.

Dr. Suraiya, who is doing her housemanship, is the second of Datuk Hussein Onn's and Datin Suhaila's six children.

The wedding culminates in a none-year courtship between the couple, who are now both attached to the General Hospital in Johore Baru.

A wedding party will also be held at the home of Dr. Yahya, the second youngest of seven children, in Johore Baru on Dec 1.

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