Sardon was born in
Rengit,
Batu Pahat,
Johor on 19 March 1917. His father, Haji Jubir bin Haji Mohd Amin was a plantation owner and a
kathi in
Singapore. Sardon was educated at
Victoria Bridge School and
Raffles Institution in
Singapore. At Raffles, he formed a Malay literary association with friends including
Aziz Ishak,
Abdul Hamid Jumat, and
Ahmad Ibrahim and contributed articles on the
Malays and their plight to Warta Malaya, a leading Malay newspaper in
Singapore. This was done through Aziz's brother,
Yusof Ishak who was already working as a journalist. Yusof later became the first
President of Singapore. After passing his Senior Cambridge examination, Tun Sardon pursued a career in law in
London and qualified as a barrister from Lincoln's
Inner Temple. He returned to
Singapore in 1941 and had his practice in Singapore and later in
Johor Bahru. He was called to the English Bar in 1938 at the same time as Tun
Suffian Hashim who later retired as the
Lord President of the Supreme Court. ==Political career==