James Brooke
1803–68
Soldier and colonial governor. East India Company military service, 1819–30; served in the Burma War. At the invitation of Muda Hassim, uncle of the Malay sultan of Brunei and nominal ruler of Borneo, became raja of Sarawak, 1841. Commissioner and consul-general to the sultan and the independent chiefs in Borneo, 1847–55, and governor of the island of Labuan and its dependencies, 1847–52. Knighted, 1848.
Sources
Foreign Office list 1856
ODNB.
Bibliography
Foreign Office list: The Foreign Office list. London: Harrison & Sons. 1852–1965.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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