George Oehlers

Sir George Edward Noel Oehlers, OBE (1 April 1908 – 26 October 1968) was a Singaporean lawyer, politician and public administrator.[1]

Early life and education

George Edward Noel Oehlers was born on 1 April 1908 to George Rae Oehlers and his wife Frances Maude Oehlers. He attended St Andrew's School in Singapore and then the city's Raffles Institution.[1]

Career

In 1928, Oehlers was called to the bar at Gray's Inn and practised as a barrister in London for three years. He returned to Singapore, and became a City Councillor in 1933, serving until 1941; he returned to the City Council in 1947, but left ahead of his appointment in 1955 as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Singapore. He left that post in 1963 to chair the Public Utilities Board, and then from 1965 he was Chairman of Singapore's Industrial Arbitration Tribunal and, finally, from 1967 to his death, he was President of the Industrial Court of Malaysia. Oehlers had been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1953 and a Knight Bachelor in 1958 for his public service in Singapore. He died, aged 60, on 26 October 1968, leaving behind a widow (his second wife, his first having died in 1960) and five children.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Oehlers, Sir George Edward Noel", Who Was Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Obituary", The Times (London), 31 October 1968, p. 12.

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