September 2022 – Malaysia 1786 – 1957
4 posts published by TheConstantTraveller during September 2022| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
4 posts published by TheConstantTraveller during September 2022| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Two British men were primarily responsible for starting the rubber industry in Malaya beginning in the 1870s. Due initially to their efforts it grew from nothing to become one of the most successfu…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
4 posts published by TheConstantTraveller during May 2019| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
One of the oldest Missionary Schools in Malaysia, the Methodist Girls’ School (MGS), Penang, previously the Anglo-Chinese Girls’ School, was founded in 1892 by Dr. B. West of the Method…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Introduction Malaysia has only comparatively recently developed a system of higher education. Pre-1970s there was only a handful of institutions on the Malay Peninsula offering it. Malays were trad…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
4 posts published by TheConstantTraveller during August 2022| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
The name of Robert Townsend Farquhar (not to be confused with Major Farquhar of Singapore), 2nd Lieutenant of Prince of Wales Island (now Penang Island) from 1804 to 1805, is well known today throu…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
There is no flag flying from the staff at the Governor’s official residence in Macalister Road, Georgetown. The last Governor to occupy the residence was Lim Guan Eng in 2007 but he fled the …| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Martina Rozells was the common law wife of Francis Light, founder of Penang in 1786, and during their 22 years living together she bore him five children, three daughters and two sons, Sarah, Willi…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Wandering around the old Protestant Cemetery in Georgetown you can’t help but wonder that being appointed governor of Penang Island in the early 19th century was tantamount to a receiving a d…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
4 posts published by TheConstantTraveller during June 2022| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Presbyterianism was first established in Malaya by the Dutch, according to their tradition, after they captured Malacca from the Catholic Portuguese in 1641. They promptly appropriated their church…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
4 posts published by TheConstantTraveller during April 2025| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Treacher Methodist Girls’ School, founded in 1889 was the first girls’ school established in the Malay States. Situated in Taiping, it was founded by the British government in Perak, wi…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
In 1926, the worst flooding in living memory occurred in Malaya which led to a month-long series of disasters which spread throughout the peninsula. Over 100 died, damage amounted to millions of do…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
The worst flooding in Penang’s history occurred in 1932 when seven people died. Amidst widespread destruction with much of the island underwater, whole villages disappeared and the island too…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Taiping was the capital of the State of Perak from 1876 to 1937 after it replaced Kuala Kangsar in that role, and with the discovery of large tin deposits in Perak in the middle of the 19th century…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
By the end of the 19th century Malaya was the largest tin producer in the world, suppling over half of the world’s tin. The tin mining industry began to be organised in the 1820s in Perak and…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Kamunting School, founded in 1888, was considered the first English speaking school to be established in the Malay States. While a few other schools existed in Perak at the time, and schools in the…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
The Methodist Boys’ School in Penang is the oldest Methodist school in Malaysia. It was established in 1891 as the Anglo-Chinese School by Rev. Benjamin H. Balderstone and retained its origin…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Suffolk house is a grand, Georgian style mansion on Penang which served as the British Governor’s residence from 1810 to 1890. It’s situated on the Suffolk Estate on land which was orig…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
The Pykett Methodist School, Penang was a 130 year-old school, part of the Anglo-Chinese School, Penang founded by Rev Benjamin Pykett in 1891, the oldest Methodist School in Malaysia. With a long …| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Francis Light is Penang’s most famous historical figure having established| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Penang Hill, like Shimla in northern India, was used by British Government officials and army personnel as a refuge from the heat and threat of malaria in the lowland areas of the island. Construct…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
Although the Penang Botanical Gardens was the brainchild of the British botanist, Nathaniel Cantley who was the Superintendent of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, it was Charles Curtis, also botanist…| Malaysia 1786 - 1957
