Straits Settlement

When it comes to the federated Malay states and the british straits settlements which was a colony within the british empire which comprises Singapore, Penang, and Malacca, with the consideration of an establishment of a factory by the English East Indian Company the two british settlements became the straits settlement with the three territories established as a crown colony.

According to the Encyclopedia of Britannica online, Singapore was originally part of what the British called the Straits Settlements where in the bridge was named after the British Governor and High Commissioner for the Straits Settlement at that time,

So the straits settlement opium commission consisted of about a dozen men, some English, some natives of the Straits Settlements was originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company,

which lead to the Straits Settlements coming under the direct British control as a crown colony on April 1, 1867 making what many will say is the colony dissolved as part of the British reorganization of its South-East Asian dependencies following the end of the Second World War.

it is good to note that when you study your encyclopedia you will become so much more appreciative of where we are today in modern day developments.

In light of the fact that when it comes to the various governors here is some of the skills they possessed, Captain Francis Light, Established the first British settlement in peninsula Malaya, calling it George Town, after King George III. Renamed Pulau Pinang as Prince of Wales Island, while Philip Manington,

Took over from Francis Light as Superintendent of Penang after Light passed away, Manington was also the first Magistrate of Penang, and Major Forbes Ross Macdonald Appointed by Sir John Shore, Governor-General of India. George Caunter Caunter,

for whom Caunter Hall was named, was Acting Superintendent while Macdonald was on leave of absence in 1797, and again in 1799, immediately after Macdonald resigned so Sir George Alexander William Leith, Leith Street was named after him.

William Edward Phillips arrived in Penang on 20 April 1800 to act as secretary to Lieutenant George Leith, more can be found on the link attached.

It has been seen as a great destination site for those who are interested in the establishment of the Straits Settlements followed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, by which the Malay archipelago was divided into a British zone in the north and a Dutch zone in the south.

so I have taken it upon myself to add a little of this historical information to your knowledge bank, it has been stated that in 1867, the Settlements became a British crown colony, making the Settlements answerable directly to the Colonial Office in London instead of the Calcutta government based in India on April 1.

And you probably will be interested in knowing about the Dindings, who are consisting of some islands near the mouth of the Perak River and a small piece of territory on the adjoining mainland, were ceded by Perak to the British government under the Pangkor Treaty of 1874.

Now not as a point to bore you to tears but it is part of the record that the Cocos also known as Keeling Islands which were settled and once owned by a Scottish family named Clunies-Ross are also called the Christmas Island, which has been formerly attached to Ceylon, were in 1886 they transferred to the care the government of the Straits Settlements in Singapore along with the addition of Labuan in 1906.

So the destination and travel websites will mention also that the colony was dissolved with effect from April 1, 1946, which allowed for Singapore to become a separate crown colony a independent republic while Penang and Malacca joined the new Malayan Union predecessor of modern-day Malaysia. Interesting stuff if I say so myself, hope you enjoyed the history lesson.