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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/36062 holds various files of this Leiden University
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Author: Xiaodong Xu
Title: Genesis of a growth triangle in Southeast Asia : a study of economic connections
between Singapore, Johor and the Riau Islands, 1870s – 1970s
Issue Date: 2015-11-04
Appendix 2: Chronology 249
Appendix 2: Chronology
Residents of Singapore (1819-1826), Governors of Straits Settlements (1826-1946), Governors
of Singapore (1946-1959).
William Farquhar
1819-1823
John Crawfurd
1823-1826
Robert Fullerton
1826-1830
Robert Ibbetson
1830-1833
Kenneth Murchison
1833-1836
Samuel George Bonham
1836-1843
William John Butterworth
1843-1855
Edmund Augustus Blundell
1855-1859
William Orfeur Cavenagh
1859-1867
Harry St. George Ord
1867-1873
Andrew Clarke
1873-1875
William Jervois
1875-1877
Edward Archibald Harbord Anson*
1877
William Cleaver Francis Robinson
1877-1879
Edward Archibald Harbord Anson*
1879-1880
Frederick Weld
1880-1887
Cecil Clementi Smith
1887-1893
William Edward Maxwell
1893-1894
Charles Mitchell
1894-1899
James Alexander Swettenham*
1899-1901
Frank Swettenham
1901-1904
John Anderson
1904-1911
Arthur Young
1911-1920
Laurence Guillemard
1920-1927
Hugh Clifford
1927-1930
Cecil Clementi
1930-1934
Shenton Thomas
1934-1942
Lord Louis Mountbatten**
1945-1946
Shenton Thomas
1945-1946
Franklin Charles Gimson
1946-1952
Wilfred Lawson Blythe***
1952
John Fearns Nicoll
1952-1955
William Goode***
1955
250 Genesis of a Growth Triangle
Robert Brown Black
1955-1957
William Goode
1957-1959
Note: * Acting Governor of the Straits Settlements; ** British High Command; *** Acting
Governor of Singapore.
Source: ARSS, CSAR, SYB.
Temenggong/Sultan of Johor, 1806-1981.
Abdul Rahman
1806-1825
Daing Ibrahim
1825-1862*
Abu Bakar
1862-1895
Ibrahim
1895-1959
Ismail
1959-1981
Note: * He was officially installed as temenggong in 1841. In 1855, he claimed himself as
maharaja of Johor.
Source: Trocki, Prince.
Sultan of the Riau-Lingga Sultanate, 1811-1911.
Abdul Rahman I
1811-1832
Muhammad II
1832-1841*
Mahmud Muzaffar
1834-1857**
Sulaiman
1857-1883***
Abdul Rahman II
1883-1911****
Note:
* After about 1834, Sultan Muhammad II acted as a Regent.
** Sultan Mahmud Muzaffar was crowned sultan by his father in about 1834. Sultan
Muhammad died in 1841 and Mahmud took over the kingdom without a regent. In 1856,
Sultan Mahmud ignored the Dutch prohibition and insisted on going to Singapore. Having
made a threat, the Dutch then deposed him and he died in Pahang in July, 1864.
*** On October 10, 1857, the Dutch installed Mahmud’s uncle, Sulaiman, as sultan of
Lingga.
**** He was the son of Yang di-Pertuan Muda Muhammad Yusuf. His mother was
Fatimah, daughter of ex-Sultan Mahmud.
Source: Matheson, ‘Mahmud,’ 123-5, 146.
Appendix 2: Chronology 251
Residents of the Riau Residency, 1870-1942.
D. W. Schift
1870-1880
A. H. G. Blokzeijl
1886
E. A. Halewijn
1886-1888
F. S. A. de Clercq
1888-1890
E. W. E. Burger
1890-1893
A. L.van Hasselt
1893-1896
A. M. Joekes
1896-1898
W. C. Hoogkamer
1898-1901
V. L. de Lannoy
1901-1903
W. A. de Kanter
1903-1908
W. J. Rahder
1908-1910
G.F. de Bruin Kops
1910-1914
A. C. Veenhuyzen
1914-1916
L. R. Wentholt
1916-1921
L. M. F. Plate
1921-1924
V. A. Doeve
1924-1928
J. Roest
1928-1933
Jhr. J. M. von Schmidt auf Altenstadt
1933-1936
P. J. Goedhart
1936-1939
G. van Brakel
Source: RAN
1939-1942
Chinese Kapiteins in the Riau Islands, 1867-1942.
Kapitein
in
Tandjong
Pinang
Kapitein in Lingga
Poeij Gossi
1867-1875
Gho Soei Lim
1870-1877
Oei Soei Kiat
1875-1892
Oeij Soei In
1877-1891
Oei Tiang Tjai
1892-1917
Liem Pak Djiem
1891-1904
Oei Tiou Tjing
1917-1930
Oei Pit Ship
Source: RAN.
1930-1942