Family
Lim married twice. His first marriage was to Margaret Huang in 1896 at a Presbyterian Church, and they had four sons: Robert Kho-Seng, Francis Kho-Beng, Walter Kho-Leng and John Kho-Liau. However, Lim's wife died in 1905.
Lim remarried in 1908, to Grace Yin. They had one son, Peng Han, who later became a race car driver, and daughter Ena Guat-Kheng. Lim also had another son, Peng Thiam, with Chui Geok, niece of one of Lim's wives, probably out of wedlock.
Lim's son Lim Peng Han was the first Chinese to race at Brooklands, United Kingdom. His granddaughter, Annalisa Ee Nga Landymore-Lim, began her education at the school her grandfather co-founded, the Singapore Chinese Girls' School. She obtained her BSc (First Class) and PhD in the United Kingdom in biomedical chemistry. Like her grandfather, she has also published and campaigned against the harmful effects of drugs used in medicine. She is author of 'Poisonous Prescriptions - Do Antibiotics Cause Asthma and Diabetes?'.
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