The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company,the Straits Settlements came under British Raj control in 1858 and then under direct British control as a Crown colony in 1867. In 1946,following the end of the Second World War and the Japanese occupation,the colony was dissolved as part of Britain's reorganisation of its Southeast Asian dependencies in the area.
The Federated Malay States was a federation of four protected states in the Malay Peninsula - Selangor,Perak,Negeri Sembilan and Pahang - established by the British government in 1895,which lasted until 1946,when they,together with two of the former Straits Settlements and the Unfederated Malay States,formed the Malayan Union. Two years later,the Union became the Federation of Malaya,which achieved independence in 1957,and finally Malaysia in 1963 with the inclusion of North Borneo,Sarawak and Singapore.
Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham was a British colonial administrator who became the first Resident general of the Federated Malay States,which brought the Malay states of Selangor,Perak,Negeri Sembilan and Pahang together under the administration of a Resident-General based in Kuala Lumpur. He served from 1 July 1896 to 4 November 1901. He was also an amateur painter,photographer and antique collector.
Sir William Peel was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong.
The term "British Malaya" loosely describes a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the island of Singapore that were brought under British hegemony or control between the late 18th and the mid-20th century. Unlike the term "British India",which excludes the Indian princely states,British Malaya is often used to refer to the Federated and the Unfederated Malay States,which were British protectorates with their own local rulers,as well as the Straits Settlements,which were under the sovereignty and direct rule of the British Crown,after a period of control by the East India Company.
Sir Richard Olaf Winstedt,or more commonly R. O. Winstedt,was an English Orientalist and colonial administrator with expertise in British Malaya.
The Perak Museum is a public museum located at the junction of Jalan Muzium and Jalan Taming Sari in Taiping,Perak,Malaysia. It is the oldest museum in Malaysia and highlights the history of the state.
The Royal Malaysia Police trace their existence to the Malacca Sultanate in the 1400s and developed through administration by the Portuguese,the Dutch,modernization by the British beginning in the early 1800s,and the era of Malaysian independence.
Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane,MCS,CMG,was the 17th British Resident of Perak and Chief Secretary to Government of Malaya from 1929 to 1932.
Sir William George Maxwell was a British colonial administrator in British Malaya and the Straits Settlements.
Marcus Rex,was the last British Resident of Perak
Sir Henry Conway Belfield,was an English colonial administrator.
The Taiping Clubs were sports and recreation clubs that existed in the city of Taiping,Malaysia,during the 1880s. At the time,the city saw significant growth in European as well as Chinese,Indian,Arab,and Indonesian communities,and thus the need for such clubs arose. The following is a non-exhaustive list of these establishments.
Richard James Wilkinson was a British colonial administrator,scholar of Malay,and historian. The son of a British consul,Richard James Wilkinson was born in 1867 in Salonika (Thessaloniki) in the Ottoman Empire. He studied at Felsted School and was an undergraduate of Trinity College,Cambridge. He was multilingual and had a command of French,German,Greek,Italian and Spanish,and later,Malay and Hokkien which he qualified in,in 1889,while a cadet after joining the Straits Settlements Civil Service. He was an important contributor to the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS). On 7 November 1900 Wilkinson presented a collection of Malay manuscripts and printed books to the University of Cambridge Library. He was appointed CMG in 1912.
Arthur Benison Hubback was an English architect and soldier who designed several important buildings in British Malaya,in both Indo-Saracenic architecture and European "Wrenaissance" styles. Major works credited to him include Kuala Lumpur railway station,Ubudiah Mosque,Jamek Mosque,National Textile Museum,Panggung Bandaraya DBKL,Ipoh railway station,and Kowloon railway station.
This article lists important figures and events in the public affairs of British Malaya during the year 1909.
This article lists important figures and events in the public affairs of British Malaya during the year 1925,together with births and deaths of prominent Malayans.
Joseph Peascod Harper was a British land surveyor,who served as the second Surveyor-General of the Federated Malay States (1919-1920).
Victor Alexander Lowinger was a British surveyor who served as the fourth Surveyor-General of the Federated Malay States,from 1922 to 1933.
