MALAYA IN PHOTOGRAPHS: 19TH CENTURY - 1957

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Sir Hugh Low, the British Resident in Perak, was actually a botanist by profession	Frank Swettenham arrived in the Malay Peninsula in 1871 and, in subsequent years, became appointed the British Resident in Selangor and Perak, Resident General of the Federated Malay States and, finally, Governor of the Staraits Settlement and High Commissioner of the Malay States in 1901.	William Edward Maxwell (1846 - 1897), after whom Maxwell Hill is named, was british Assistant Resident in Perak.
Hugh Clifford came to Malaya at the age of 17 and left it as Governor of the Malay States. He was a gifted writer, in addition to being an able administrator	A Victorian lady being carried up Penang Hill in a sedan car sometime in 1880

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