Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun |
Sardon Jubir | |
Native Name: | Malay: {{Script|Arab|سعدون زبير |
Honorific-Suffix: | SMN PMN SPMK SPMJ DUPN |
Office: | 3rd Youth Chief of the United Malays National Organisation |
President: | Tunku Abdul Rahman |
Term Start: | 1951 |
Term End: | 1964 |
Predecessor: | Abdul Razak Hussein |
Successor: | Senu Abdul Rahman |
Office1: | 4th Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Penang |
Term Start1: | 2 February 1975 |
Term End1: | 30 April 1981 |
1Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata1: | Lim Chong Eu |
Predecessor1: | Syed Sheh Hassan Barakbah |
Successor1: | Awang Hassan |
Office2: | Minister of Communications |
Primeminister2: | Abdul Razak Hussein |
Term Start2: | 1 January 1972 |
Term End2: | 24 August 1974 |
Monarch2: | Abdul Halim |
Deputy2: | Wong Seng Chow |
Successor2: | V. Manickavasagam |
Constituency2: | Pontian Utara |
Office3: | Minister of Health |
Primeminister3: | Tunku Abdul Rahman Abdul Razak Hussein |
Term Start3: | 4 June 1969 |
Term End3: | 1 January 1972 |
Monarch3: | Ismail Nasiruddin Abdul Halim |
Predecessor3: | Ng Kam Poh |
Successor3: | Lee Siok Yew |
Constituency3: | Pontian Utara |
Office4: | Minister of Transport |
Primeminister4: | Tunku Abdul Rahman |
Term Start4: | 22 August 1959 |
Term End4: | 3 June 1969 |
Monarch4: | Abdul Rahman Hisamuddin Putra Ismail Nasiruddin |
Predecessor4: | Abdul Rahman Talib |
Successor4: | V. Manickavasagam |
Constituency4: | Pontian Utara |
Office5: | Minister of Works, Posts and Telecommunications |
Primeminister5: | Tunku Abdul Rahman |
Term Start5: | 31 August 1957 |
Term End5: | 21 August 1959 |
Monarch5: | Abdul Rahman |
Predecessor5: | Himself |
Successor5: | V. T. Sambanthan |
Constituency5: | Segamat |
Office6: | Minister of Works |
Monarch6: | Elizabeth II |
1Blankname6: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata6: | Tunku Abdul Rahman |
2Blankname6: | Assistant Minister |
2Namedata6: | Abdul Khalid Awang Osman |
Term Start6: | 9 August 1955 |
Term End6: | 31 August 1957 |
Predecessor6: | Position Established |
Successor6: | Himself |
Constituency6: | Segamat |
Birth Date: | 19 March 1917 |
Birth Place: | Rengit, Batu Pahat, Johor, British Malaya (now Malaysia) |
Death Place: | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Resting Place: | Makam Pahlawan, Masjid Negara, Kuala Lumpur |
Alma Mater: | Victoria School Inns of Court School of Law Inner Temple |
Tun Sardon bin Jubir (Malay: سعدون بن زبير|label=[[Jawi alphabet|Jawi]]|script=arab|italic=unset, in Malay pronounced as /sardon/; 19 March 1917 – 14 December 1985) was a Malaysian politician. He served as Minister of Health, Minister of Works and Communications and was the Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang from 1975 to 1981.
Sardon was born in Rengit, Batu Pahat, Johor on 19 March 1917. His father, Haji Jubir bin Haji Mohd Amin was a plantation owner and a kathi in Singapore.[1]
Sardon was educated at Victoria Bridge School and Raffles Institution in Singapore. At Raffles, he formed a Malay literary association with friends including Aziz Ishak, Abdul Hamid Jumat, and Ahmad Ibrahim and contributed articles on the Malays and their plight to Warta Malaya, a leading Malay newspaper in Singapore. This was done through Aziz's brother, Yusof Ishak who was already working as a journalist. Yusof later became the first President of Singapore.
After passing his Senior Cambridge examination, Tun Sardon pursued a career in law in London and qualified as a barrister from Lincoln's Inner Temple. He returned to Singapore in 1941 and had his practice in Singapore and later in Johor Bahru. He was called to the English Bar in 1938 at the same time as Tun Suffian Hashim who later retired as the Lord President
Tun Sardon held the post of Minister of Health until 1972. He retired from politics in 1974 and was made Ambassador to the United Nations – a post then normally associated with retired politicians. In 1975, he was appointed as Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Penang.
Sardon married Toh Puan Hajjah Saadiah in 1944. They had three sons and two adopted daughters.
Sardon died on 14 December 1985 and was buried at Makam Pahlawan near Masjid Negara, Kuala Lumpur.
With the support from business and community leaders from Penang, the Tun Sardon Foundation was incorporated on 13 June 1978 as a company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital under the Companies Act 1965 to carry out charitable objects, including giving relief to the poor and needy, in particular the widows and orphans, victims of fire, floods, famine or other calamity and to those in need of moral or social rehabilitation or welfare.
Several projects and institutions were named after him, including: