Leong Fee is the Hakka name for Liang P'i Joo (1857–1911), a Kar Yin Hakka from Guangdong Province in China came to Malaya in 1876. He arrived in Penang and half a year later moved to Perak where he began to make his fortune in tin. He was a tin miner, businessman, a visiting Justice for Kinta (1892), the first Chinese Member of the Federal Legislative Council (1909) a Penang state senator, a member of the Perak State Council, a Chinese Vice-Consul to Penang (1902 to 1908) and a philanthropist. He married the daughter of millionaire-philanthropist Hsieh Yung-kuan

Hsieh Yung-kuan

Cheah Meng Chi （謝夢池） or Cheah Choon Seng or Tjia Tioen Sen （謝春生） or Hsie Yung Kuang （謝榮光）, a Hakka, was Chinese Vice Consul in Penang from 1895–1903 and from 1906-1907. He was a founding director of the Deli Bank in Medan, Indonesia. Born in 1848 in Pontianak, Dutch East Indies...

, the Chinese Vice-Consul to Penang before him. He was a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

In 1902 he opened a mine in Tambun. Leong Sin Nam

Leong Sin Nam

Leong Sin Nam , alias Leong Sin, Leung Sin, Leong Sin Hee, was a Hakka Chinese from Kwangtung, China. He migrated and settled in British Malaya in 1898. From humble beginnings, he worked hard to become a wealthy tin mine owner in Perak. He was a businessman, an active community leader and a...

once worked in his tin mine. One year later Tambun held the world record for the largest production of any time.

Leong Fee Mansion

Built on Leith Street around the 1900s as a personal residence, it now belongs to the Christian Brothers and has been leased to an art school, Akademi Seni Equator.

Ipoh Chinese Tin Miners Club

Leong Fee founded the club in 1893. His son, Leong Yin Khean alias Liang En-Chuen, continued to sponsor the lodge after his father's death and eventually sold the house cheaply to the club. He was a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.