Chan Ley Kum also known as Claude Ley Kum, death 14 September 1905, Penang

Eastern Daily Mail and Straits Morning Advertiser, 15 September 1905, Page 3

DEATH OF MR. CHAN 

LEY KUM. 

A WELL KNOWN MINER 

IN PERAK. 

(Straits Press Agency.)

          Kuala Lumpur, Sept., 14th. The death is announced of Mr. Chan Ley Kum, or Claude Ley Kum as he was more familiarly known in Perak and Penang, at which latter place the event occurred at nine o'clock this morning. Mr Leykum was a Cantonese gentleman born in Australia. His father was the late Chan Lai Kam, merchant and Opium Farmer of Penang and Hongkong, who died in May, 1900. Mr. Claude Ley Kum was formerly intimately connected with Kang Yu-wei, tthe Reform Leader of young China, but a few years ago he left Mr. Kang to start mining in Perak. He was educated at St. Xavier's Institution, Penang, and was a fluent English scholar like Mr. Wooi Lim Seng, of Ipoh, also an Australian-born Chinese who died a year ago coincidentally in Penang.

Penang, Sept 14. 

          Mr. Claude Ley Kum died of paralysis.
          [We knew Mr. Ley Kum intimately as an occational contributor to the press. He was only a young man, in his early twenties in fact, but had been long ailing ever since his visit to Hongkong a year or so ago.
          He was keenly interested in all things European, his mother being an Australian. However, he always styled himself Chinese, and it was not until he paid a visit to London and Paris that he parted with his queue. Ley Kum counted his intimates from amongst Europeans and Chinese alike. He took an active part in public affairs. He was unmarried.]

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