Tributes are being paid to Singapore's longest serving Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who died at the age of 91.
His state funeral will take place on March 29th, following a week of mourning.
Hailed as the country's 'Founding Father', Mr Lee's history with the UK dates back to the 1940s when he studied at Cambridge University.
Our UK correspondent Natalie Powell retraced his footsteps and spoke to academics at his college about his time in Cambridge.
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VO: After the second World War, Lee Kuan Yew came to study at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam college - where he obtained a starred first in English Law.
He was the only one in his cohort to do so.
Today Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge looks a lot different, having changed location. But there are still reminders of Singapore's Founding Father's time at the college.
UPSOT:
"This is the record book that shows that he matriculated on the 28th January 1947…"
This is Professor David Thompson, a life fellow and Archivist at Fitzwilliam college
PROFESSOR DAVID THOMPSON, LIFE FELLOW AND ARCHIVIST, FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE CAMBRDIGE
"You can get a first class result if you simply get first class marks in the majority of your papers…."
Lee Kuan Yew, who called himself Harry when living in England first enquired about a place at Cambridge in 1946, but the college was oversubscribed which led him to attend a year later
PROFESSOR DAVID THOMPSON, LIFE FELLOW AND ARCHIVIST, FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE CAMBRDIGE
"If he hadn't got in to Cambridge he would have probably gone to the London School of Economics but he got into Cambridge. We took quite a number of people, both from India and other commonwealth territories, stretching as far East as Singapore and Hong Kong at that time"
VO: In 1949 he graduated top of his law class…
UPSOT:
"There is Lee Kuan Yew, with the only star of all of those. The Group…who became professors at Cambridge..If I remember correctly he lived in Blincove Grove..."
PROFESSOR DAVID THOMPSON, LIFE FELLOW AND ARCHIVIST, FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE CAMBRDIGE
"…He didn't like that very much because his fiancé was at Gurten…"
UPSOT:
"This is the photograph of graduation day with Lee Kuan Yew on the censors right…"
It's been said that Singapore's longest serving Prime Minister disliked the English, but liked their way of doing things.
After graduating from Cambridge University in 1949, Mr Lee was accepted into the English bar in 1950, but decided instead to return to Singapore.
And his decision to do so, ultimately lead to the transformation of singapore from a small port city into a wealthy global hub under his leadership.
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