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<div>'''Sir Husein Hasanally Abdoolcader Mama<ref>The Strait Times, 18 November 1925, Page 8</ref>''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (10 September 1890 – 16 June 1974) was a Dawoodi Bohra by faith<ref>The Strait Times, 18 November 1925, page 8</ref> and a [[barrister]] and politician by profession in [[British Malaya|Malaya]] born in [[Surat]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]. His eldest son Tan Sri Eusoffe Abdoolcader was also a prominent figure in Malaya and was a judge at the Supreme Court of Malaysia.<ref>Abdoolcader, Eusofee (December 10, 2017). The Legal Lion of the Commonwealth. Akasaa Publishing & Avec. p. 2. {{ISBN|978-9675764035}}</ref><br />
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He was educated first in Malaya, at [[Raffles Institution]], [[Singapore]] and [[Penang Free School]], [[Penang]]. He was sent to England and went to [[Ilford County High School]] and [[Christ's College, Cambridge]], then joined [[Lincoln's Inn]].<br />
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== Career ==<br />
He was:<br />
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* an Indian Member of the [[Straits Settlements]] Legislative Council from 1928 until the outbreak of the war with [[Japan]];<br />
* a member of the Advisory Council of the Governor of The Malayan Union;<br />
* a member of the Indian Immigration Committee, 1935–1953;<br />
* President of the Third All Malaya Indian Conference, 1929–1930;<br />
* Indian Member of the Municipal Commission, [[George Town, Penang|Georgetown]], Penang, 1925–1951;<br />
* President of the Penang Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals;<br />
* President of the Mohammedan Football Association of Malaya. <br />
* A J.P and officiated as the Imam of the Dawoodi Bohra Community in Penang<ref>The Strait Times, 18 November 1925, page 8</ref><br />
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He is the first Indian in Malaya to receive a knighthood and was once threatened with execution by the Japanese. Throughout the Japanese occupation in Singapore during WW2, Sir Husein was under suspicion for his pro-allied sympathies. The Kempeitai eventually arrested him and soon announced that he was to be beheaded. They blindfolded him, made him kneel, then brought out a sword. Sir Husein made one request: he asked to see his family again. But the Japanese did not execute him, they spared him to see liberation, and to receive a knighthood.<ref>The Strait Times, 7 January 1948, Page 4</ref><br />
He was awarded the [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]] Silver Jubilee Medal, 1935, and the [[George VI]] Coronation Medal, 1937. He was made a [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1938<ref name="CBE">{{London Gazette|issue=34469|page=15 |supp=y|date=31 December 1937}}</ref> and knighted in 1948.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=38161 |date=30 December 1947 |page=2 |supp=y}}</ref><br />
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He also has a road named after him in Penang.<br />
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==References==<br />
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* [[Who's Who (UK)|Who was Who]]<br />
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