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Benjamin Sheares
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2nd President of Singapore (1907–1981)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1913-11-22
- Active to
- 1976-12-04
Discography
- Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes / Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra1955
- Carnival of the Animals/The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra1962
- Serge Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Benjamin Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra1962
- Twentieth Century Church Music1963
- War Requiem1963
- Copland: The Red Pony & Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 201964
- Rejoice in the Lamb / Missa brevis / A Ceremony of Carols1965
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream1966
- Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op. 34 / Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra, Op. 101967
- Songs & Proverbs of William Blake - The Holy Sonnets of John Donne1969
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
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- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
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- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 30,848x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
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Key facts
- Prime minister
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Preceded by
- Yusof Ishak , Yeoh Ghim Seng (acting)
- Succeeded by
- Yeoh Ghim Seng (acting), Devan Nair
- Born
- Benjamin Henry Sheares , ( 1907-08-12 ) 12 August 1907, Singapore , Straits Settlements
- Died
- 12 May 1981 (1981-05-12) (aged 73), Holt Road, Singapore
- Cause of death
- Lung cancer
- Resting place
- Kranji State Cemetery
- Party
- Independent
- Spouse s
- Wong Ah Foon ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1931 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1947 ) , Yeo Seh Geok ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1939 )
- Children
- 3; including Constance and Joseph
- Alma mater
- King Edward VII College of Medicine
- Occupation
- Physician academic
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Wikidata facts
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- date of death
- 1981-05-12
- date of birth
- 1907-08-12
- Commons category
- Benjamin Sheares
- name in native language
- 本杰明·亨利·薛尔思
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Article
Benjamin Henry Sheares (12 August 1907 – 12 May 1981) was a Singaporean obstetrician, gynaecologist, and academic who served as the second president of Singapore between 1971 until his death in 1981.
Born in Singapore under British rule, Sheares graduated from the King Edward VII College of Medicine in 1929. He specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology and worked at the Singapore General Hospital and Kandang Kerbau Hospital (KKH), eventually serving as the acting professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Malaya in Singapore. He later became the professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in 1950, becoming the first local to rise to such a position as high-ranking colonial officers were usually appointed instead.