Tee Tee Luce was a Burmese philanthropist and wife of

Gordon Luce Gordon Hannington Luce (20 January 1889 – 3 May 1979) was a colonial scholar in Burma. His outstanding library containing books, manuscripts, maps and photographs – The Luce Collection – was acquired by the National Library of Australia ...

, a Burma scholar. Tee Tee married Luce, a close friend of her brother

Pe Maung Tin Pe Maung Tin ( ; 24 April 1888 – 22 March 1973) was a scholar of Pali and Buddhism and educator in Myanmar, formerly Burma. Born to an Anglican family at Pauktaw, Insein Township, Rangoon, he was the fifth child of U Pe and Daw Myaing. His g ...

, also a Burma scholar, on 20 April 1915. She was a founding member of the Children's Aid and Protection Society. On 1 September 1928, Daw Tee Tee founded Home for Waifs and Strays, an orphanage and school for destitute boys on 114 Inya Road in

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, on land owned by businessman U Ba Oh. The Home eventually served 6,000 boys and secured funding from

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. She won the

Ramon Magsaysay Award The Ramon Magsaysay Award (Filipino language, Filipino: ''Gawad Ramon Magsaysay'') is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, ...

for public service in 1959. In 1964, soon after

Ne Win Ne Win (; ; 24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002), born Shu Maung (; ), was a Burmese army general, politician and Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974, and also President of Burma from 1962 to 1981. Ne Win was Burma's mili ...

's coup d'état, she and her husband were forced out of Burma. They settled in

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, in the Channel Islands.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Luce, Tee Tee Burmese Anglicans 1895 births 1982 deaths Ramon Magsaysay Award winners People from Yangon Region Burmese philanthropists Burmese Mon people 20th-century philanthropists Burmese emigrants to the United Kingdom