Chung Thye Phin MSC, JP was a Chinese Malayan business magnate, planter, miner, bureaucrat, and philanthropist who served as the last Kapitan Cina of Perak and Malaya. He was reported to be the riches
Chung Keng Quee, Kapitan China of Perak (1877–1901).
Members of the Penang Chinese Literary Association, Malaya, 1897.
Kapitan China Chung Keng Quee was the founder and administrator of modern Taiping in Perak, Malaysia. Appointed "Capitan China" by the British in 1877, he was a millionaire philanthropist and known as
Chung Thye Phin
…philanthropist who served as the last Kapitan Cina of Perak and Malaya. He was reported to be the richest man in Penang. The son of tin-mining magnate Chung Keng Quee, he was a pioneer in the tin-mining industry through the introduction of modern equipment and tin-mining techniques in Perak under Western assistance…