Early Life
Thuraisingham of Sri Lankan Tamil origin, was born in Taiping (Perak) on 28 August 1898. He was the second son and child among five children of Kasinathar and Meenachi Clough.
After graduating on 19 December 1922 with a BA degree in Law & Political Economy at Cambridge University, and in order to practice law, Thuraisingham studied and did his pupillage at Middle Temple in the Inns of Court in London and became a Barrister-at-Law in 1924. Thuraisingham played soccer, tennis and hockey at Cambridge and later played soccer semi-professionally with the Tylehurst-on-Thames Soccer Team in the Berkshire Soccer League.
Urged by his father, Kasinathar Clough, Thuraisingham set up a legal practice in Singapore in 1925. He practiced law in a partnership with M.V. Pillai and Charles Peng Siong Wong, another Cambridge lawyer. Being so close to Johore meant that he could also manage his father's large rubber estate in Skudai across the causeway as his parents and siblings had moved back to Jaffna in Sri Lanka by then.
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