she accepted it on 12 May 2011. Retirement from politics On 30 August 2015, Chiam announced that he would not be running for election in the 2015 general election due to his declining health. In the general election that year, the SPP contested in three SMCs and one GRC but lost to the PAP in all four. Lina Loh also lost to Sitoh Yih Pin again in Potong Pasir SMC with 33.61% of the vote against Sitoh's 66.39%. On 4 September 2019, the SPP announced that Chiam would be stepping down from his position as the party's secretary-general post due to his declining health. Chiam stepped down on 16 October 2019 and was succeeded by Steve Chia. Post-retirement On 9 March 2017, Chiam and Lina Loh launched the Chiam See Tong Sports Fund at the Old Parliament House to help needy athletes achieve their sporting dreams. Chiam and Loh are co-patrons of the organisation, which is chaired by their daughter, Camilla Chiam. Personal life Chiam's name, "See Tong" (), which means "punctual" or "timely", was given to him by his grandfather, Chiam Seng Poh, who was a revolutionary involved in the uprisings in the final years of the Qing dynasty before the 1911 Revolution. Chiam Seng Poh had fled China with his family after one of those failed uprisings and settled in Muar, Malaya. Chiam's maternal grandfather, Lim Liang Quee, was part of the Straits Chinese elite. Mabel Lim, one of Chiam's maternal aunts, married Kwa Soon Siew, a brother-in-law of Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. Chiam's father, Chiam Heng Hong, was a businessman who dealt in commodities like rubber, pepper and sugar. Chiam's mother, Lily Lim, was a founder of the 7th Singapore Company of the Girls' Brigade at Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church in the 1950s. Chiam Heng Hong and Lily Lim had two sons, Chiam See Tong and Chiam Joon Tong. Chiam met his wife, Lina Loh, in London in 1973. They married in Singapore in 1975 when Chiam was 40 and Loh was 26, and have a daughter, Camilla. See also List of Singapore opposition party MPs elected References Bibliography External links Profile at Parliament of Singapore website The Straits Times (print edition), 12 December 2009, pp. A38, A39. 1935 births Living people Members of the Parliament of Singapore Singapore People's Party politicians Singapore Democratic Party politicians Independent politicians in Singapore 20th-century Singaporean lawyers Anglo-Chinese