Tee Tee Luce

{{Short description|Burmese philanthropist (1895–1982)}}

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| birth_name = Tee Tee

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|7|19|df=y}}

| birth_place = Insein, Hanthawaddy District, British Burma

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1982|9|9|1895|7|19|df=y}}

| death_place = Jersey

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| other_names = Daw Tee Tee

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| occupation = Philanthropist

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| spouse = Gordon Luce (1915–1979, his death)

| children = John Luce
Sandra Luce

| relatives = Pe Maung Tin (brother)

| awards = Ramon Magsaysay Award

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Tee Tee Luce was a Burmese philanthropist and wife of Gordon Luce, a Burma scholar. Tee Tee married Luce, a close friend of her brother Pe Maung Tin, also a Burma scholar, on 20 April 1915.{{cite web|url=http://sealang.net/archives/luce/UThawKaung.pdf|title=Papers of Gordon Luce: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE|date=August 1999|publisher=National Library of Australia|pages=4|accessdate=12 August 2011}} She was a founding member of the Children's Aid and Protection Society.{{cite web|url=http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationLuceTee.htm|title=CITATION for Tee Tee Luce and Joaquin Villalonga |date=31 August 1959|work=Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation|accessdate=12 August 2011|location=Manila, Philippines}} 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 Rangoon, on land owned by businessman U Ba Oh.{{cite book|last=Olsen|first=Kirsten|title=Chronology of women's history|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1994|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313288036/page/227 227]|isbn=978-0-313-28803-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313288036/page/227}}{{cite journal|last=Luce|first=John|author2=A. B. Griswold |year=1980|title=In Memoriam: Gordon Hannington Luce, C. B. E., D. Litt.|journal=Artibus Asiae|publisher=Artibus Asiae Publishers|volume=42|issue=1|pages=114–118|jstor=3250010}}{{cite journal|last=Carroll|first=Diana|date=August 2001|title=The Forgotten Philanthropist: Daw Tee Tee Luce (1895-1982)|journal=National Library of Australia News|publisher=National Library of Australia|volume=XI|issue=11|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2001/aug01/story-3.pdf}} The Home eventually served 6,000 boys and secured funding from UNESCO. She won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service in 1959. In 1964, soon after Ne Win's coup d'état, she and her husband were forced out of Burma. They settled in Jersey, in the Channel Islands.