{{Short description|Malaysian businessman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Leong Fee | image = Leong Fee - Portrait.jpg | image_size = 156x156px | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Leong Fee | birth_name = Liang Pi Joo | birth_date = 1857 | birth_place = Guangdong in China | death_date = 1912 | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Tin miner, businessman, politician | years_active = | known_for = * Held the world record for tin production * First Chinese Member of the Federal Legislative Council | notable_works = }} '''Leong Fee''' ({{zh|s=梁辉|zh|t=梁輝|p=Liáng Huī}}; Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Liòng Fî) is the Hakka name for Liang Pi Joo (1857–1912), a worker from Guangdong in China who emigrated to Malaya in 1876.

==Career== He arrived in Penang and, half a year later, moved to Perak where he began to make his fortune in tin. He was a tin miner, businessman, a visiting Justice for Kinta (1892), the first Chinese Member of the Federal Legislative Council (1909)<ref>Generations: The Story of Batu Gajah By Tak Ming Ho, Perak Academy Published by HO TAK MING, 2005; {{ISBN|983-40556-5-X}}, {{ISBN|978-983-40556-5-3}}; pp. 105, 113, 117, 119, 120, 132</ref> a Penang state senator, a member of the Perak State Council, a Chinese Vice-Consul to Penang (1902 to 1908) and a philanthropist.<ref>Days Gone By: Growing Up in Penang By Christine Wu Ramsay, South Yarra: Macmillan, 2004</ref> He was a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.<ref name="VM">[http://www.virtualmalaysia.com/destination/han%20chin%20pet%20soo.html Virtual Malaysia, The official ePortal of Tourism Malaysia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119201139/http://www.virtualmalaysia.com/destination/han%20chin%20pet%20soo.html |date=19 November 2005 }}</ref>

In 1902 he opened a mine in Tambun. Renowned Malaysian businessman Leong Sin Nam once worked in his tin mine.<ref>Everitt, W.E. History of Mining in Perak. 1952. Vols. 14, Page 60</ref> One year later Tambun held the world record for tin production.<ref>[http://bp2.blogger.com/_OWhdrX10bSQ/RpxoiSPb-EI/AAAAAAAACK8/x6uwaBQz3NU/s1600-h/DSCN6516.jpg Ipoh Echo, July 2007]</ref>

==Leong Fee Mansion== Built on Leith Street around the 1900s as a personal residence, it now belongs to the Christian Brothers and has been leased to an art school, Akademi Seni Equator.<ref>[http://www.pbase.com/johnglines/image/22476557 John Glines]</ref>

==Hakka Chinese Tin Miners Club== Leong Fee founded the club in Ipoh in 1893. His son, Leong Yin Khean alias Liang En-Chuen, continued to sponsor the lodge after his father's death in 1912 and eventually sold the house cheaply to the club.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He was a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.<ref name="VM"/>

==Personal life== He married the daughter of millionaire-philanthropist Hsieh Yung-kuan, the Chinese Vice-Consul to Penang before him.<ref name="ReferenceA">The Official Website of Tourism Penang by The Penang Tourism Action Council</ref>

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