1. Name: A.P. Sultan Mydin
2. Occupation: Textile merchant, Philanthropist
3. Date and place of birth: 1866, Emaneswaram, Ramnad, South India, India
4. Date of death: 25 th of August 1933
5. Contributions:
- President of the Muslim Merchants’ Society in Penang (1927)
- First President of the Mohammedan Football Association
- Committee management of Kapitan Keling mosque
- Committee member of Mohammedan Advisory Board (1933)
- With other Muslim merchants and chettiars in Penang held discussion in support of the Straits Settlements (Singapore) Association to abolish income tax
- Opened shops at Chulia street
- Wholesaler of ‘pelikat sarongs’
- Worked at a textile shop
Source: Loh Wei Ling, Badriyah Haji Salleh, Mahani Musa, Wong Yee Tuan & Marcus Langdon (Eds). (2013). Biographical Dictionary of Mercantile Personalities of Penang . Kuala Lumpur: THINK CITY and MBRAS
