About Dr Goh Keng Swee-Family

Dr Goh Keng Swee was born on 6 October 1918, Malacca, Malaysia. His family was a middle-income Peranakan family in Malacca. He was the fifth of six children.
His father Goh Leng Inn was a manager of a rubber plantation, while his mother Tan Swee Eng was from the family that produced the Malaysian politicians Tun Tan Cheng Lock and his son Tun Tan Siew Sin, who would later become Goh's lifelong political opponent.
When Dr Goh was two years old, his family moved from Malacca to Singapore where his maternal grandparents owned several properties. The Gohs later relocated to the Pasir Panjang rubber estate when his father found work there, and became manager in 1933.
The Gohs spoke both English and Malay at home; church services were held at home on Sundays in Malay. Dr Goh Keng Swee married Ms Alice Woon, a secretary who was a colleague, in 1942 and they had their only child, Goh Kian Chee, two years later. In 1945 , he relocated his young family to Malacca, but they returned to Singapore the following year after the Japanese Occupation ended.