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8 unusual facts about James Brooke


Bidayuh

Originally from the western part of Borneo, the collective name Land Dayak was first used during the period of Rajah James Brooke, the White Rajah of Sarawak.

Borneo Company Limited

Its directors were Robert Henderson (of R.& J.Henderson, Glasgow merchants), John Charles Templer (friend of James Brooke), James Dyce Nicol, John Smith, Francis Richardson, and John Harvey (the latter two of MacEwan & Co. in Singapore).

Brooke's Point, Palawan

The name Brooke’s Point comes from an Englishman Sir James Brooke, first white Rajah of Sarawak and founder of the Brooke Dynasty.

Named after Sir James Brooke, the municipality has become famous for its promotion of ecotourism.

Melanau people

Orang Kaya Selair – Leader of Matu district before and during reign of Brooke Dynasty

Moro Pirates

Also in the 1840s, James Brooke became the White Rajah of Sarawak and he led a small navy in a series of campaigns against the Moro pirates.

During one engagement with Illanun Sulus in 1862, Captain James Brooke, the white rajah of Sarawak, sank four proas, out of six engaged, by ramming them with his small four gun steamer Rainbow.

Robert Meadows White

In 1813 Robert was sent to school under John Valpy at Norwich, where John Lindley the botanist, and "Rajah" Sir James Brooke, were his fellow pupils.


Robert Carr Woods

In 1849, an article about James Brooke's anti-piracy activities was instrumental in encouraging Joseph Hume to raise questions in the British Parliament and, together with a petition from Singapore traders which he took round for signature in 1851, eventually culminated in an Inquiry held in Singapore in the autumn of 1854.

Sandokan

In subsequent novels they battle against James Brooke, the Raja of Sarawak and also travel to India to measure themselves against the Thugs, a notorious band of stranglers devoted to the goddess Kali.


see also

Luwu

Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes down to the occupation of Labuan. From the Journals of James Brooke, Esq. Rajah of Sarawak and Governor of Labuan . . . by Captain Rodney Mundy. London: John Murray.

Sandokan

The role of the main antagonist James Brooke was performed by Adolfo Celi.

The Pirates of Malaysia

Salgari used as a source the book A Visit to the Indian Archipelago in H.M. Ship Maeander: With Portions of the Private Journal of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B. by Henry Keppel.

White Rajahs

Sarawak was part of the realm of Brunei until 1841 when James Brooke was granted a sizable area of land in the southwest area of Brunei – around the city of Sarawak (now Kuching) and the nearby mining region of Bau – from Bruneian Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II.