Frank Swettenham information

Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham GCMG CH (28 March 1850 – 11 June 1946) was a British colonial administrator who became the first Resident general of the...

together with Frank Swettenham who was appointed the Resident in 1882, were the two most important figures of early Kuala Lumpur with Swettenham credited with...

sea into Malaysia. Known during colonial times as Port Swettenham (Malay: Pelabuhan Swettenham) but renamed Port Klang in July 1972, it is the largest...

Guiana from 1901 to 1904 and Governor of Jamaica from 1904 to 1907 Frank Swettenham (1850–1946), 15th Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements...

Sir Frank Swettenham. It was in use as a luxury hotel, the Carcosa Seri Negara, from 1989 to 2015 and has been abandoned since then. Swettenham took...

the FMS, Frank Swettenham, proposed a master plan to extend and connect railway networks within the FMS and Province Wellesley. Swettenham's proposal...

inventor and industrialist, opened his first mill in Belper (1777) Frank Swettenham, colonial ruler of Malaya, author, was born in Belper in 1850. Nigel...

November 1947), usually known as Sydney Swettenham, was the first wife of British colonial official Frank Swettenham, the first Resident-General of the Federated...

expressed concern and requested assistance from Sir Andrew Clarke. Frank Swettenham was appointed to serve as the sultan's advisor. Approximately a year...

was subsequently renamed Swettenham Pier, in honour of Frank Swettenham, the then Governor of the Straits Settlements. Swettenham Pier's initial capacity...

built in the valley of Sungei Bras Bras, and the British Resident Frank Swettenham agreed to the scheme and authorised a small grant from the State funds...

then made chief of the Selangor valley. During the 1850s, writings by Frank Swettenham mentioned that Abdul Samad murdered numerous men, and this was not...

Square, which became the centre of the British colonial administration. Frank Swettenham, who was appointed the Resident in 1882, has been credited with its...

Oldham Swettenham, an attorney-at-law, near Belper, Derbyshire and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. Alexander’s younger brother, Sir Frank Athelstane...

miseries and many other bad things. The British colonial administrator Frank Swettenham wrote about the role of the pawang in late nineteenth century Malaya...

Carcosa mansion was built in 1896–1897 as the official residence of Sir Frank Swettenham, the first British High Commissioner of the then Resident-General of...

British colonial administrator Frank Swettenham wrote about latah in his volume of essays Malay Sketches (1895). Swettenham describes how two policemen from...

The Far Eastern Tropics (London, 1904); Sir Frank Swettenham, British Malaya (London, 1906) Swettenham, Frank (1905). "The Straits Settlements and Beyond" ...

Inspector John Symes. During a visit by Frank Swettenham, then the Resident of Perak, to the Police barracks, Swettenham admired a row of trees providing shade...

Charlotte Mew, Arthur Symons, H. G. Wells, William Butler Yeats and Frank Swettenham. Though Oscar Wilde never published anything within its pages, it was...

1897. The purpose of the Durbar, as described by Resident-General Frank Swettenham, was to "bring home to the Malays, in the most striking manner possible...

Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham GCMG CH (28 March 1850 – 11 June 1946) stands in the courtyard of the National Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Frank Swettenham...

completion. On 4 April 1897, The building was officially opened by Sir Frank Swettenham, the General Resident of the time. A ball was held at the building...

the aborigines (orang asli), and the Minangkabaus. On 12 April 1884 Frank Swettenham, the British Resident of Selangor pleaded for the re-appointment of...

recognized the Malay states, as recorded by numerous literature by Frank Swettenham, Hugh Clifford and many more of their scholars. Historians have noted...

news via telegram. She befriended British colonial administrator Sir Frank Swettenham on a visit to Singapore with her brother Hugo in 1903 and maintained...

town's structures made of wood and atap (thatching). As a response, Frank Swettenham, the British Resident of Selangor, required that buildings be constructed...