KUALA LUMPUR: Former Lord President Tun Abdul Hamid Omar died of renal failure at the Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre in Ampang at about 10am on the 1st of September, He was 80.
His son, Azizuddin, 51, told Bernama that he was admitted to the hospital at 8am yesterday after having a fever and chronic influenza.
He said the doctor confirmed that there was infection of the kidney, which led to renal failure.
His body had been taken back to his residence in Bukit Tunku here.
It would later be taken to the Damansara mosque for prayers after Asar and buried at the Bukit Kiara Muslim cemetery.
Tun Abdul Hamid leaves a widow, Toh Puan Azian Aiyub Ghazali, and four children: Azizuddin, Ainuddin, Hanizah dan Hanizan.
Abdul Hamid, who obtained his Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln's Inn, London, and a Doctorate in Law from Oklahoma City University, United States, began his career in 1956 as a magistrate and later as a Sessions Court judge, in Kuala Lumpur, Raub, Taiping and Seremban.
He once served as a legal advisor in Terengganu, Penang and Perak, then as a Federal Court's Registrar and legal draftsman at the Attorney-General's Chambers.
He was appointed a Kuala Lumpur High Court Judge in 1968, and in 1980, was made a Federal Court Judge.
Four years later he was appointed as the Chief Justice of Malaya and in 1985, as a Supreme Court Judge prior to his appointment as the Lord President,in 1988.
Upon his retirement, Abdul Hamid joined the private sector and was appointed chairman of several companies, including First Allied Corporation Bhd, OlympiaIndustries Bhd and Bukit Unggul Country Club Bhd and executive chairman of Macro System Consultancy Sdn Bhd.
Abdul Hamid was also the Malaysian National News Agency's (Bernama) Supervisory Council president for three years from June 1976. -- Bernama
