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3 unusual facts about Tristram Speedy


Tristram Speedy

In 1871 Speedy sailed to the Straits Settlements in Malaya and became superintendent of police on the island of Penang.

In 1874 Speedy was appointed assistant British resident of Larut and established and named Malaysia’s oldest town, ‘Thaipeng’, meaning ‘Heavenly Peace’.

He returned to Ethiopia in 1897, as part of Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell's mission to the court of King Menelik to negotiate the Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty, which defined the border with Sudan.



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