Career
Another daughter of his, Victoria Lye-hua Chan-Palay, went on to prominence as a neuroscientist in the United States and Switzerland. Two other sons Alex Chan Meng Wah and Bernard Chan Cheng Wah were also swimmers, the latter representing Singapore at the 1966 Asian Games. The other son Mark Chan later became a composer.
Chan moved into a villa on 55,000 square feet (5,100 m2) of land in Mountbatten Road in the 1940s, and raised his family there.
lieutenant was a local landmark known as the "walled city". The Urban Development Authority gave it conservation status in 1993.
After Chan"s death, his family sold the property to Simon Cheong of South Carolina Global Development in 2004 for SG$11 million.
