Malay States
Party abbreviations:
BN
= Barisan Nasional (National Front, multi-ethnic electoral organization
dominated by UMNO, other members are: Gerakan, LDP, MCA, MIC, PBB, PBDS,
PBRS, PBS, PPP, SAPP, SPDP, SUPP, UPKO); BP = Berjaya Party; BERJASA
= Barisan Jamaah Islamiah Semalaysia (Front for Malaysian Islamic Council)
DAP
= Parti Tindakan Demokratik (Democratic Action Party, social-democratic
party, est.1966, predominantly Chinese);
Gerakan = Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Malaysian People's
Movement Party, centrist, est.1968); LDP = Parti Liberal Demokratik
(Liberal Democratic Party, Chinese minority party, Sabah based); MCA
= Persatuan China Malaysia (Malaysian Chinese Association, Chinese minority
party); MIC = Kongres India Se-Malaysia (Malaysian Indian Congress,
Indian minority party);
PAS = Parti Islam se Malaysia (Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party);
PBB
= Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (United Traditional Bumiputera Party,
Sarawak regionalist party); PBDS
= Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (Sarawak
Native People's Party, Sarawak Dayak minority party, founded est.1983);
PBRS
= Parti Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (United Sabah People's Party, Sabah
non-muslim indigenous party, est.1994); PBS = Parti Bersatu Sabah
(United Sabah Party, Sabah regionalist party, est.1985); PKN = Parti
Keadilan Nasional; PKR = Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party, centerist); PPP = Parti Progresif Penduduk Malaysia (People's
Progressive Party of Malaysia, left-wing party); SAPP = Parti Majuh
Sabah (Sabah Progressive Party); SCA = Sabah Chinese Association;
SNAP
= Sarawak National Party (Sarawak Dayak minority);
SPDP = Parti
Demokratik Progresif Sarawak (Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party);
SUPP
= Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak (Sarawak United People's Party, Sarawak
Chinese minority party); UPKO = United Pasok Momogun Kadazandusun
Organisation (United National Kadazan Organization, Sabah indigenous non-Muslim
party); UMNO = Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu (United Malays
National Organization, ethnic Malay party, authoritarian, est.1946); USNO
= United Sabah National Organization
Johor
(Johore)
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to 1855
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1855 - 1865
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1865 - 1871
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Adopted 1871
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Capital: Johor Bahru
(Riau Bintan 1699-1721,
1787-1819;
Kuala Pahang 1721-1787;
Johor Lama 1526-1699)
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Hear
State Anthem
"Lagu Bangsa Johor"
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of State Anthem
Adopted 1897
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Population: 3,098,136 (2008)
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1400
Sultanate of Melaka (Malacca).
10 Aug 1511
Melaka annexed by Portugal; last sultan moves to Kampar.
1528/1864
Successor establishes Sultanate of Johor-Riau.
6 Feb 1819
Johor and Riau separate; Negeri Johor Darul Takzim established.
11 Dec 1885
British protectorate (an unfederated Malay state); with
a British adviser from
1910.
23/31 Jan 1942-12 Sep 1945 Occupied by Japan.
1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Sultans¹
3 Sep 1699 - Nov 1721 Abdul Jalil
Riayat Shah
(b. 16.. - d. 1721)
1721 - 20 Aug 1760
Sulaiman Badr ul-Alam Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Abdul
Jalil
Riayat Shah
(b. 1699 - d. 1760)
20 Aug 1760 - 29 Jan 1761 Abdul Jalil Muadzam Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Sulaiman
Shah (b. 1738 - d. 1761)
29 Jan 1761 - 1770
Ahmad ibni al-Marhum Sultan Abdul
Jalil
(b. 1752 - d. 1770)
29 Jan 1761 - 1770
.... -Regent
1770 - 12 Jan 1811
Mahmud Shah Alam ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah
(b. 1756 - d. 1811)
10 Nov 1784 - 7 Feb 1787 Regency Council
1811 - 6 Feb 1819
Abdul Rahman Muadzam Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud
Shah
6 Feb 1819 - 5 Sep 1835 Husain Muadzam Shah ibni
al-Marhum (b. 1776 - d. 1835)
Sultan Mahmud Shah
5 Sep 1835 - 10 Mar 1855 Ali Iskandar Shah ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Husain Muadzam Shah
(b. 1820 - d. 1877)
(not recognized; rules
at Muar to 20 Jun 1877)
Rulers, with the title Datuk Temeggong Seri Maharaja
5 Sep 1835 - 31 Jan 1862 Tun Daeng Ibrahim bin Tun
Abdul (b. 1811 - d. 1862)
Rahman
1 Feb 1862 - 1868
Tun Abubakar Seri Maharaja bin Tun
Ibrahim
(b. 1833 - d. 1895)
Maharaja
1868 - 13 Feb 1886
Abubakar bin Tun Ibrahim
(s.a.)
Sultans¹
13 Feb 1886 - 4 Jun 1895 Tuanku Abubakar bin Tun Ibrahim
(s.a.)
4 Jun 1895 - 8 May 1959 Tuanku Ibrahim ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Abubakar
(b. 1873 - d. 1959)
8 May 1959 - 10 May 1981 Tuanku Ismail ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Ibrahim
(b. 1894 - d. 1981)
11 May 1981 - 22 Jan 2010 Tuanku Mahmud Iskandar ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Ismail
(b. 1932 - d. 2010)
26 Apr 1984 - 25 Apr 1989 Tunku Ibrahim Ismail -Regent
(b. 1958)
22 Jan 2010 - 23 Jan 2010 Tunku Ibrahim Ismail -Regent
(s.a.)
23 Jan 2010 - Tuanku Ibrahim Ismail ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Iskandar
(s.a.)
Chief ministers (title Menteri Besar)
1886 - Jul 1890
Datuk Jaafar bin Mohamed
(b. 1838 - d. 1919)
Jul 1920 - 1922
Datuk Mohamed bin Mahbob (b. 1852 - d. 1926) Sep 1923 - 1928
Abdullah bin Jaafar (b. 1875 - d. 1934)
16 Sep 1928 - 23 Nov 1931 Mustapha bin Jaafar
23 Nov 1931 - 28 Dec 1934 Datuk Abdul Hamid bin Yusof (b. 1876 - d. 1934) Apr 1935 - 1 Jun 1947 Ungku Abdul
Aziz bin Abdul Majid (b. 1887 - d. 1951)
1 Jun 1947 - 18 May 1950 Onn Jaafar
(b. 1895 - d. 1962)
18 May 1950 - 20 Feb 1952 Vacant
20 Feb 1952 - 5 Jun 1955 Datuk Syed Abdul Kadir bin
Mohamed (b. 1900) 1 Oct 1955 - 16 Jun 1959 Datuk Wan Idris bin Ibrahim (b. 1888 - d. 1973) 27
Jun 1959 - 31 Jan 1967 Tan Sri Hassan Yunos
(b. 1907 - d. 1968) UMNO Feb 1967 - Apr 1982 Dato'
(from 4 Jun 1975, Tan Sri)
(b. 1927 - d. 2007) UMNO
Othman Saat 29 Apr 1982 - 12 Aug 1986 Datuk Abdul Ajib bin Ahmad
(b. 1947)
UMNO/BN 12
Aug 1986 - 3 May 1995 Muhyiddin bin
Yassin
(b. 1947)
UMNO/BN
(from 1988, Tan Sri Muhyiddin
bin Yassin)
3 May 1995 -
Abdul Ghani Othman
(b. 1946)
UMNO/BN
(from 13 Apr 1996, Dato'
Abdul Ghani Othman)
British General Advisers
1910 - 1914
Douglas Graham Campbell (1st time) (b. 1867 - d. 1918)
1915 - 1916
F.G. Weld (acting)
1916 - 1917
Douglas Graham Campbell (2nd time) (s.a.)
1918 - 1919
F.J. Hallifax (acting)
1919 - 1920
J.F. Owen (acting)
1920 - 1926
Hayes Marriott
(b. 1873 - d. 1929)
1924 G.A. Hereford (acting for Marriott)
1924 G. Hemmant (acting for Marriott)
1926 - 1928
Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane (b. 1876 - d. 1932)
1928 - 1931
Ceorge Ernest Shaw
(b. 1877 - d. 1958)
1931 - 1935
Richard O. Winstedt
(b. 1878 - d. 1966)
1935 - 1940
Walter Evelyn Pepys
(b. 1885 - d. 1966)
1940 - 1941
William Douglas Barron (b. 1887 - d. 19..)
Japanese Governors
31 Jan 1942 - 1943
the Commanders of the 25th Army
1943 - 1945
Kenji Dohihara
(b. 1883 - d. 1948)
1945 - 12 Sep 1945
Seishiro Itagaki
(b. 1885 - d. 1948)
British Resident Commissioners 1945 - 194.
....
1 Apr 1946 - 194.
Arthur Sleep (1st time) (b. 1894
- d. 19..)
1946 - Feb 1948 Eric Ernest
Falk Pretty
(b. 1891 - d. 1967)
Jan 1947 - Aug 1947 Wilfred Charles Steuart Corry (b. 1900)
(acting for Pretty) Feb 1948 - Feb 1949
Arthur Sleep (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Mar 1949 - Jul 1952 John
Falconer
(b. 1898 - d. 19..) Jul 1952 - 26 Feb 1954 J.D. Hodgkinson
(acting) (b. 1907 - d. 1954) Sep 1953 - Nov 1953 J.K. Creer
(acting for Hodgkinson) (b. 1908)
Mar 1954 A. Glencross (acting)
Mar 1954 - Jan 1957 David Alford Somerville (b. 1908)
Jan 1955 - Jul 1955
R.L. Peel (acting for Somerville) (b. 1914)
¹Full style of the ruler:
(a) to 1855: Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Sri Sultan ("Sultan
of Malacca [1819 Johor]");
(b) from 1885: "By the grace of God Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan
of the State and Territory of Johor Darul Takzim."
Kedah
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18th cent - 10 Jan 1912
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Adopted 10 Jan 1912
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Capital: Alor Star (Alor Star 1735-1980,
Alor Setar 1980-Dec 2003)
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Hear
State Anthem
"Allah Selamatkan
Sultan Mahkota"
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Text
of State Anthem
Adopted 22 Mar 1937
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Population: 1,849,030 (2008)
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Late antiquity
Kedah state founded.
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1136
Negeri Kedah Darul Aman established.
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Sep 1660 - 1767
Under Thai sovereignty.
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1767 - 1769
Under Burmese suzerainty.
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1769 - 9 Jul 1909
Under Thai sovereignty.
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12 Sep 1821 - 1843
Annexed by Thailand (division into three polities
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under Thai sovereignty
from 1839).
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9 Jul 1909
British protectorate (an unfederated Malay state).
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14 Dec 1941 - 20 Aug 1943 Occupied by Japan.
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20 Aug 1943 - 8 Sep 1945 Annexed by Thailand.
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1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Sultans¹
17 Nov 1698 - 22 Sep 1706 Abdullah al-Muadzam Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Ata Allah
Muhammad Shah
(b. 16.. - d. 1706)
22 Sep 1706 - 8 Feb 1710 Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah
I
ibni al-Marhum Sultan Abdullah
al-Muadzam Shah
(d. 1710)
8 Feb 1710 - 23 Sep 1778 Muhammad Jiwa Zainal Azilin
Muadzam Shah ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Abdullah al-Muadzam
Shah (d. 1778)
23 Sep 1778 - 25 Sep 1797 Abdullah Mukarram Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad
Jiwa
Zainal Azilin Muadzam Shah
(b. c.1750 - d. 1797)
25 Sep 1797 - 19 Sep 1804 Ziyauddin Mukarram Shah II ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad
Jiwa
Zainal Azilin Muadzam Shah
(b. 1754 - d. 1815)
19 Sep 1804 - 12 Nov 1821 Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah II
ibni al-Marhum Abdullah
al-Mukarram Shah (1st time)
(b. 1770 - d. 1845)
(12 Nov 1821 - 1843 in
Penang and Malacca exile)
18.. - 1839
Tunku Anum
(in rebellion against Thailand)
1839 - 1841
Tunku Asan (in Kabangpasu)
1841 - 1843
Tunku Anum (in Kabangpasu)
1839 - 1843
Tunku Setusen (in Polit)
1839 - 1843
Muhammad Akip (in Satun)
1843 - 3 Jan 1845
Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah II
ibni al-Marhum Abdullah
al-Mukarram Shah (2nd time)
(s.a.)
3 Jan 1845 - 13 Mar 1854 Tuanku Zainal Rashid Muadzam
Shah I ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah
(b. 1803 - d. 1854)
13 Mar 1854 - 22 Jun 1879 Tuanku Ahmad Tajuddin Mukarram
Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Zainal Rashid Muadzam Shah
(b. 1835 - d. 1879)
22 Jun 1879 - 22 Sep 1881 Tuanku Zainal Rashid Muadzam
Shah II ibni al-Marhum
Sultan
Ahmad Tajuddin Mukarram
Shah (b. 1857
- d. 1881)
21 Jan 1882 - 13 May 1943 Tuanku Seri Abdul Hamid Halim Shah
ibni al-Marhum Sultan Ahmad
Tajuddin Mukarram Shah
(b. 1864 - d. 1943)
- Regents for incapacitated Abdul Hamid -
1915 - 30 Apr 1934
Tunku Ibrahim
(b. 1885 - d. 1934)
1934 - 7 Mar 1935
Tunku Muhammad
(b. 1890 - d. 1935)
1935 - 5 Nov 1937
Tunku Mahmud
(b. 1876 - d. 1937)
5 Dec 1937 - 13 May 1943 Tunku Badli Shah
(b. 1894 - d. 1958)
Sultans¹
14 May 1943 - 20 Aug 1943 Sultan Tengku Badli Shah ibni
(s.a.)
al-Marhum Sultan Abdul
Hamid
Halim Shah (1st time)
8 Sep 1945 - 13 Jul 1958 Sultan Tengku Badli Shah ibni
(s.a.)
al-Marhum Sultan Abdul
Hamid
Halim Shah (2nd time)
14 Jul 1958 -
Tuanku Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah (b. 1927)
ibni al-Marhum Sultan Badishah
21 Sep 1970 - 20 Sep 1975 Tuanku Abdul Malik -Regent
(b. 1929)
Chief ministers (title Menteri Besar)
1 Feb 1948 - Jan 1954 Mohamad Sheriff
bin Osman (b. 1890
- d. 1962)
1949 - 1951
Tunku Ismail bin Tunku Yahya (b. 1907
- d. 19..)
(acting for Sheriff)
Jan 1954 - 24 May 1959 Tunku Ismail bin
Tunku Yahya (s.a.)
24 May 1959 - 7 Dec 1967 Datuk Syed Omar Shahabuddin
(b. 1902 - d. 1967)
14 Dec 1967 - 13 Jul 1978 Syed Ahmad Shahabuddin
(b. 1925 - d. 2008)
(from 1975, Datuk Syed
Ahmad Shahabuddin)
13 Jul 1978 - 28 Jan 1985 Syed Nahar Shahabuddin
(b. 1934 - d. 1998)
(from 1979, Dato' Seri
Syed Nahar Shahabuddin)
28 Jan 1985 - 16 Jun 1996 Dato' Paduka (from 25 Jan 1987,
Dato' Seri; from 5 Jun
1991, Tan
Sri) Osman Aroff
(b. 1940)
UMNO/BN
16 Jun 1996 - 11 Dec 1999 Datuk Seri (from 7 Jun 1997, Tan
Sri) Sanusi Junid
(b. 1943)
UMNO/BN
11 Dec 1999 - 22 Dec 2005 Syed Razak Syed Zain
(b. 1944)
UMNO/BN
(from 4 Jan 2000, Dato'
Seri Syed
Razak Syed Zain; from 9
Oct 2004,
Datuk Seri Syed Razak Syed
Zain)
17 Jul 2005 - 9 Mar 2008 Datuk (from 22 Jan 2006, Datuk
Seri) Mahdzir Khalid
(b. 1960)
UMNO/BN
(acting [for Syed Razak
to 22 Dec 2005] to 28 Dec 2005) 9 Mar 2008 -
Azizan Abdul Razak
(b. 1939?) PAS
(from 16 Jul 2008, Datuk Seri
Azizan Abdul
Razak)
British Advisers
1909
Meadows Frost
(b. 1875 - d. 1954)
1909 - 1914
W. George Maxwell
(b. 1871 - d. 1959)
1915 - 1916
Littleton Edward Pipe-Wolferstan (b. 1866 - d. 1957)
(acting)
1916 - 1919
Gilbert Amos Hall (acting) (b. 1867 - d. 19..) 1919 - 1920
Malcolm Stewart Hannibal McArthur (b. 1872 - d. 1934)
(1st time)
1920 - 1921 F.J. Hallifax (acting)
1921 - 1922 Malcolm Stewart Hannibal McArthur (s.a.)
(2nd time)
1922 - 1923
William Peel (1st time)
(b. 1875 - d. 1945)
1923 - 1924 E.C.H. Wolff (acting)
1924 - 1925
William Peel (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1925 - 1926
John Lisseter Humphreys
(b. 1881 - d. 1929)
1926 - 1931
Thomas Watts Clayton
(b. 1877 - d. 19..)
1932
Alan Custance Baker (acting) (b. 1885
- d. 1969)
Mar 1932 - 1941
Julian Dudley Hall
(b. 1887 - d. 1961)
Japanese Governors
1941 - Mar 1942
Ojama
Mar 1942 - Aug 1943 Sukigawa
Seichi
Thai Officer
Oct 1943 - 1945?
Pramote Chong Charoen
Thai General-commissioners
(administering Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu)
20 Aug 1943 - Oct 1943 Kamol Saraphaisariddhikan
Chotikasathion
Oct 1943 - 1945?
Chierlah Kamol Sribhaasairadhikavan
British Resident Commissioners
1945 - Nov 1951
Edward Victor Grace Day
(b. 1896 - d. 1968)
(acting to 1 Apr 1946) Dec 1946 - Nov 1947 O.E. Venables (acting for Day) (d. 1960)
1948? - 1949? A.B. Ramsay (acting for Day) Nov 1951 - Oct 1953 A.B. Ramsay
Oct 1953 - 1955
Edwin Cyril Geddes Barrett
(b. 1909)
Mar 1954 - Nov 1954 G.S. Rawlings (acting for Barrett) (b. 1904)
British Adviser
1955 - 1957
Edwin Cyril Geddes Barrett
(s.a.)
1955
Frank Marshall Smith
(b. 1912)
(acting for Barrett)
¹Full style of the ruler: Duli Yang Maha
Mulia Sultan dan Yang di-Pertuan Negara Kedah Darul Aman ("Sultan and
Head of the State of Kedah").
Kelantan
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1912 - 1923
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Adopted 1923
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c.1411
Kelantan established.
1499 - 1511
Conquered by Malacca.
1764
Independence restored.
1795 - 1800
Under Trengganu rule.
1812 - 9 Jul 1909
Kelantan under Thai sovereignty.
9 Jul 1909
British protectorate (an unfederated Malay state);
with a British resident
from 1903.
Jul 1916
Negeri Kelantan Darul Naim established.
9/22 Dec 1941-20 Aug 1943 Occupied by Japan.
20 Aug 1943 - 8 Sep 1945 Annexed by Thailand.
1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Rajas¹
1675 - Oct 1721
Sultan Omar ibni al-Mahrum Raja (d. 1721)
Sakti
Oct 1721 - May 1734 Sultan
Long Bahar ibni al-Marhum (d. 1734)
Raja Daim
May 1734 - 1739
Raja Long Sulaiman ibni al-Marhum (d. 1798)
Sultan Long Bahar (1st
time)
1739 - 1746
Interregnum
1746 - 1756
Raja Long Sulaiman ibni al-Marhum (s.a.)
Sultan Long Bahar (2nd
time)
1756 - 4 Sep 1758
Sultan Long Pandak ibni al-Marhum (d. 1758)
Tuan Sulong
Sep 1758 - Jul 1763 Sultan
Long Muhammad ibni al-Marhum (d. 1763)
Sultan Long Pandak
Jul 1765 - 15 Jul 1795 Sultan Long Yunus
ibni al-Marhum (d. 1795)
Raja Long Sulaiman
1795 - 1800
Tengku Muhammad ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Mansur
1800 - 26 Jan 1835
Sultan Muhammad I ibni al-Marhum (b. 1741 - d. 1835)
Long Yunus
26 Jan 1835 - 30 Oct 1886 Sultan Muhammad II ibni al-Marhum
(b. c.1794 - d. 1886)
Temenggong Tengku Long
Lan
- jointly with -
1835 - 1836
Tengku Long Zainal
30 Oct 1886 - 3 Mar 1890 Sultan Ahmad ibni al-Marhum
Sultan (d. 1890)
Muhammad
3 Mar 1890 - 11 May 1891 Sultan Muhammad III ibni al-Marhum
(b. 1845 - d. 1891)
Sultan Ahmad
23 Sep 1890 - 11 May 1891 Long Mansur ibni al-Marhum Sultan
(b. 1870 - d. 1900)
Ahmad -Regent
11 May 1891 - 26 Jul 1898 Sultan Mansur ibni al-Marhum Sultan
(s.a.)
Ahmad
Sultan¹
26 Jul 1898 - 9 Feb 1900 Mansur ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Ahmad (s.a.)
Raja¹
9 Feb 1900 - 22 Jun 1911 Sultan Muhammad IV ibni al-Marhum
(b. 1870 - d. 1920)
Sultan Muhammad
Sultans¹
22 Jun 1911 - 23 Dec 1920 Muhammad IV ibni al-Marhum Sultan
(s.a.)
Muhammad
23 Dec 1920 - 20 Aug 1943 Ismail ibni al-Marhum Sultan
(b. 1880 - d. 1944)
Muhammad
8 Sep 1945 - 9 Jul 1960 Ibrahim ibni al-Marhum
Sultan (b. 1897 - d. 1960)
Muhammad
9 Jul 1960 - 29 Mar 1979 Yahya Petra ibni al-Marhum
Sultan (b. 1917 - d. 1979)
Ibrahim
21 Sep 1975 - 29 Mar 1979 Tengku Ismail Petra -Regent
(b. 1949)
29 Mar 1979 -
Ismail Petra ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Yahya Petra
(s.a.)
Chief ministers (title Menteri Besar)
1886 - 1890
Nik Yusoff bin Nik Abdul Majid
(1st time)
1890 - 1894
Said bin Ngah
1894 - 1900
Nik Yusoff bin Nik Abdul Majid
(2nd time)
1900 - 1920
Hassan bin Mohamed Salleh
1921 - 1944
Nik Mahmud bin Ismail
1944 - 1953
Nik Ahmed Kamil bin Nik Mahmud
1953 - 1959
Mohamed Hamzah bin Zainal Abidin
1959 - 1964
Datuk Ishak bin Lotfi Omar
PAS
1964 - 1974
Datuk Mohd Asri Muda
(b. 1923 - d. 1992) PAS
1974 - Mar 1978
Datuk Mohamad Nasir
(b. 1916 - d. 1997) BERJASA
Mar 1978 - 22 Oct 1990 Datuk (from 1982,
Datuk Amar; from
1988, Tan Sri) Mohamed
Yaacob (b. 1926)
UMNO
22 Oct 1990 -
Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat
(b. 1931)
PAS
(from 28 Mar 1995, Dato'
Nik Abdul
Aziz Nik Mat)
Thai Advisor
1903 - 1909
Walter Armstrong Graham
(b. 1868 - d. 1949)
British Advisers
1910 - 1911
J.S. Mason
1911 - 1913 J.E. Bishop
1913 Thomas Watts Clayton (acting) (b. 1877 - d. 19..)
1913 - 1914
William Langham-Carter
(b. 1869 - d. 1940)
1915 - 1919
Roland John Farrer (acting) (b.
1873 - d. 1956)
1919 John Whitehouse Ward Hughes (b.
1883 - d. 19..)
1919 - 1923
Henry Wagstaffe Thomson
(b. 1874 - d. 1941)
1920
Arthur Furley Worthington
(b. 1874 - d. 1964)
(acting for Thomson)
1923 - 1926
Arthur Furley Worthington
(s.a.)
1924 - 1925
H.C. Eckhardt
(acting for Worthington)
1926 - 1928
George Ernest Shaw
(b. 1877 - d. 1958)
1928 - 1930
Reginald John Byard Clayton (b.
1875 - d. 1962)
1930 - 1933
Alwyn Sidney Haynes
(b. 1878 - d. 1963)
1931 - 1932
T.P. Coe (acting for Haynes)
Feb 1934 - Jul 1934 William Douglas Barron (acting) (b. 1887 - d. 19..)
Jul 1934 - 1940
Alan Custance Baker
(b. 1885 - d. 1969)
1940 - 1941
E.T. Williams
Japanese Governors
1941 - 1943
Yashushi Sunakawan
1943 - 20 Aug 1943
Kikura Fujisawa
Thai officers
1943 - 1944
Charu Chaichan
1944 - 1945
Tharin Rawang Phu
British Resident Commissioners 1945 - 1946
....
1 Apr 1946 - 1946
William Alexander Gordon-Hall
(b. 1894 - d. 19..)
1946 - 1952
William
Foster Norton Churchill (b. 1898 - d. 1963)
May 1948? - 1948 Curtis (acting for Churchill)
Sep 1950 - Apr 1951 M.C. Sheppard (acting for Churchill)
Oct 1952 - Jun 1953
A.N. Ross
(b. 1905)
Jun 1953 - Mar 1955 Derek
Headly (b.
1908)
British Adviser
Mar 1955 - 1957 G.S. Rawlings
(b.
1904)
¹Full style of the ruler:
(a) to 1898, 1900-1911: Raja and Yang di-Pertuan Muda of
Kelantan;
(b) 1898-1900 and from 1911: Ke Bawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia al-Sultan
dan Yang di-Pertuan Bagi Negara Kelantan Darul Naim ("Sultan and Head
of the State of Kelantan").
Kuala
Lumpur
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Adopted 15 May 1990
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Adopted 26 May 2006 Federal Territory Flag
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1 Feb 1972
Kuala Lumpur becomes a city and the office
of Lord Mayor is established.
1 Feb 1974
Federal territory (formerly part of Selangor).
Lord Mayors (title Datuk Bandar)
1
Feb 1972 - 15 May 1972 Datuk Lokman bin Yusof
(b. 1910 - d. 1972) Non-party
Jul 1972 - 1 Feb 1983 Tan Sri Yaacob
bin Abdul Latiff (b. 1918)
Non-party
1 Feb 1983 - 17 Nov 1992 Tan Sri Datuk Elyas bin Omar
(b. 1936)
Non-party
17 Nov 1992 - 14 Dec 1995 Datuk Mazlan bin Ahmad
(b. 1943)
Non-party
14 Dec 1995 - 14 Dec 2001 Tan Sri Datuk Kamaruzzaman Shariff
(b. 1941)
Non-party
14 Dec 2001 - 14 Dec 2004 Datuk Mohmad Shaid Mohd Taufek
(b. 1947) Non-party
14
Dec 2004 - 14 Dec 2006 Datuk Ruslin Hasan
(b. 1950) Non-party
14 Dec 2006 - 14 Dec 2008 Datuk Abdul Hakim Borhan (b. 1951) Non-party
14 Dec 2008 - Datuk
Ahmad Fuad Ismail (b. 1952?) Non-party
Labuan
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c.1889 - 1906, 1945 - 10 Jul 1946
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1906 - 1942 Straits Settlements
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Adopted 16 Sep 1963
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Capital: Labuan Town
(Victoria 1847-1949)
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Hear
Local Anthem
"Maju Dan Sejahtera"
(Progress and Prosperity)
Adopted 23 May 2006
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Population: 91,628 (2008)
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10 Dec 1846
Labuan Island ceded to Britain by Sultan of Brunei.
1 Aug 1848
British colony
1 Apr 1867
Crown colony
1 Jan 1890
Administered by British North Borneo (see Sabah).
1 Jan 1906
Labuan returns to British colonial administration.
30 Oct 1906
Labuan annexed to the Straits Settlements (see Singapore).
1912
Labuan a separate settlement
within Straits Settlements.
3 Jan 1942 - 10 Jun 1945 Occupied by Japan (renamed
Pulau Maida), part of Northern
Borneo (see Sabah).
10 Jun 1945 - 15 Jul 1946 Allied military administration (see
under Sabah).
15 Jul 1946
Part of British North Borneo.
16 Sep 1963
British North Borneo joins Malaysia as Sabah
(with Labuan a district
of Sabah).
16 Apr 1984
Labuan Federal territory.
Governors
27
Nov 1847 - Nov 1852 James Brooke
(b. 1803 - d. 1868)
(from 27 Apr 1848, Sir
James Brooke)
1852 - 1856
Spenser St. John
(b. 1825 - d. 1910)
Lieutenant governors (acting for the governors)
1848 - 1850
William Napier
1850 - 1856
John Scott
(b. 1814 - d. 1898)
Governors
1856 - 1861
George Warren Edwards
1861 - 1866
Jeremiah Thomas Fitzgerald
(b. c.1830 - d. 1881)
Callaghan
1866 - 1867
Hugh Low
(b. 1824 - d. 1905)
1867 - 1871
John Pope Hennessy
(b. 1834 - d. 1891)
1871 - 1875
Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer (b. 1836
- d. 1914)
9 Aug 1875 - 1879
Herbert Taylor Ussher
(b. 1836 - d. 1880)
1879 - 1881
Charles Cameron Lees
(b. 1837 - d. 1898)
1881 - 1888
Peter Leys
1888 - 1890
Arthur Shirley Hamilton
1890 - 1906
the governors of North Borneo
1906 - 1946
the governors of the Straits Settlements
Deputy governors
1906 - 1946
the British Residents in Brunei
British Residents (to 1915 also in Brunei)
1907 - May 1907 Malcolm Stewart Hannibal McArthur (b. 1872 - d. 1934)
(1st time)
May 1907 - Dec 1907 Harvey Chevallier (1st time)
Dec 1907 - Apr 1908 Malcolm Stewart Hannibal McArthur (s.a.)
(2nd time)
Apr 1908 - Sep 1909 John Fortescue Owen
Nov 1909 - Nov 1913 Harvey Chevallier (2nd time)
Nov 1913 - Jan 1915 Francis
William Douglas (acting) (b. 1874 - d. 1953)
1915 - 1917 ....
Feb 1917 - 1918 Geoffrey Edmund Cator (b. 1884 - d. 1973)
1918 - 1927 .... 1927 - 1928? John Richard Neave
1928 - 1929 Andrew
Gilmour
(b. 1898 - d. 19..)
1929 - 1934 ....
1934 - 1936 A.D. York
(b. 1907)
1936 - 1940 ....
1940 - 3 Jan 1942 A.H.P. Humphrey
(b. 1911)
Japanese commanders
3 Jan 1942 - Mar 1945 ....
Mar 1945 - 10 Jun 1945 Hichiro Okuyama
British Residents
1945 - 194. ....
194. James Calder
1948? - 1956? J.E. Longfield
(b.
1908)
British Advisers
1956? - 1963 ....
Presidents of the Municipal Council
1963 - 1984 ....
bf.1984 - 1992 Datuk Abdul Rahman Ali Chairmen of the Labuan Development Authority
1 Aug 1992 - 30 Jun 2000 Tun Daim Zainuddin
(b. 1938) 1 Jul 2000 - 2001 Datuk
Mustapa Mohamed
(b. 1950)
Chief administrators 1994? - Feb 1997
Datuk Nawawi Kamaruddin
(b. 1943?)
Feb 1997 - Feb 1999 Dato'
Baseri Lamsah
(b. 1948)
Feb 1999 - Feb 2000 Datuk
Muhammad Mohd Noor
Apr 2000 - 30 Jun 2001 Datuk Mohd Noor Moktar
(b. 1948?)
Chairmen of Labuan Corporation 1 Jul 2001 - 2003
Dato' Othman Mohd Rijal
(b. 1945)
UMNO
Apr 2003 - 31 May 2009 Dato' Suhaili Abdul Rahman
(b. 1961) UMNO/BN 1 Jun 2009 - 30 Jun 2009 Datuk Yusof Mahal (acting)
1 Jul 2009 - Datuk
Ahmad Phesal Talib (b. 1955?)
Malacca
(Melaka)
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1641 - 1795,
1818 - 1825
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1795 - 1818, 1825 -
1866, 1945 - 1951
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1866 - 1867
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1867 - 1942 Straits Settlements
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14 Aug 1951 - 31 Aug 1957
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Adopted 31 Aug 1957
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24 Aug 1511
Malacca a Portuguese colony, Fortaleza de Malaca
(subordinated to Goa).
15 Jul 1580 - 1 Dec 1640 Malacca along with Portugal a Spanish possession.
14 Jan 1641
Malacca a Dutch colony.
15 Aug 1795 - 21 Sep 1818 British occupation.
25 Mar 1802
Restored to Dutch by terms of Treaty of Amines,
but the British continue administration.
21 Sep 1818
Restored to the Dutch.
5 Apr 1825
British colony.
14 Aug 1826
Part of Straits Settlements (see Singapore).
1 Apr 1867
Crown colony
15 Jan 1942 - 12 Sep 1945 Occupied by Japan (Malay Federation).
1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Commander
25 Aug 1511 - Nov 1511 Afonso de Albuquerque
(b. 1453 - d. 1515)
Captains-major
Nov 1511 - 1514 Rui de Brito Patalim
1514 - 1515
Jorge de Albuquerque (1st time) (b. c.1470 - d. 15..)
1515 - 1517
Jorge de Brito
1517 - 1518
Nuno Vaz Pereira
1518 Aleixo de Meneses
1518 - 1519
Afonso Lopes da Costa
1519 - 1520
Garcia de Sá (1st time)
1521 - 1525
Jorge de Albuquerque (2nd time) (s.a.)
1525 - 1526
Pêro de Mascarenhas
1526 - 1528
Jorge Cabral
1528 - 1529 Pêro Faria (1st time)
1529 - 1533
Garcia de Sá (2nd time)
1533 - 1534
Paulo da Gama
1534 - 1539 Estêvão da Gama
1539 - 1542 Pêro Faria (2nd time)
1542 - 1544
Rui Vaz Pereira Marramaque
1544 - 1545
Simão Botelho de Andrade
1545
Garcia de Sá (3rd
time)
1545 - 1548
Simão de Melo de Magalhães (b.
c.1480 - s. 15..) 1548 - 1552
Pedro da Silva da Gama
1552
Francisco Álvares
1552 - 1554
Álvaro de Ataíde da Gama
1554 - 1556
António de Noronha
1556 - 1557
João Pereira
1557 - 1561 João de Mendonça
1561 - 1564
Francisco de Eça
1564 - 1567
Diogo de Meneses
1567 - 1570 Leonis Pereira 1570 - 1573
Francisco da Costa
1573 - 1574
Francisco Henriques 1574 - 1575
Tristão Vaz da Veiga
1575
Miguel de Castro
1576 - 1579 Aires de Saldanha
1579?- 1582
João da Gama (b. c.1540 - d. ....)
1582 - 1585
Roque de Melo
1585 - 1587
João da Silva Pereira (1st time)
May 1587 - Feb 1588 João Ribeiro Gaio (acting)
1588 João da Silva Pereira (2nd time)
1588 - 1590 Diogo Lobo
1590 - 1593 Pêro Lopes de Sousa
1594 - 1597 Francisco da Silva de Meneses
1597 - 1600 Martim Afonso de Melo
1600 - 1603
Fernão de Albuquerque
1603 - 1606
André Furtado de Mendonça
1606 - 1607
António de Meneses
1607 - 1609 Sebastião de Távora
1609 - 1613
Francisco Miranda Henriques
1613 - 1615
Gaspar Afonso de Melo
1615 - 1616
João Caiado de Gambôa
1616
António Pinto da Fonseca
1616 João da Silva
1616 - 1618 João da Silveira
1618 - 1620 Fradique Lopes de Sousa
1624?
Filipe de Sousa
(or Francisco Coutinho)
162. - 1626
Luís de Melo
1626 - 1630 ....
1630 - 1633 Diego de Melo e Castro
163. - 1634
Gaspar de Melo Sampaio
1634 - 1635?
Álvaro de Castro
163. - 1636
Francisco de Sousa de Castro
1636 - 1638
Diogo Coutinho Doçem
1638 - 14 Jan 1641 Manuel de Sousa Coutinho
(b. c.1540 - d.1641) Captains-general
1616 - 1635 António Pinto da Fonseca
1635 - 1637
Diogo Coutinho Doçem
1637 - 14 Jan 1641 Luís Martins de Sousa Chichorro
Governors (of the Dutch East India Company)
14 Jan 1641 - 1641 Minne Williemson Kaartokoe
(commander)
1641 - 1642
Jan van Twist (d. 1643)
1642 - 1645
Jeremias van Vliet (b. 1602 - d. 1663)
1645 - 1646
Arnout de Vlamingh van Oudtshoorn
1646 - 1662
Jan Thyszoon Payart
1662 - 1665
Jan Anthonie van Riebeeck (b. 1619 - d. 1677)
1665 - 1677
Balthasar Bort (b. 1626 - d. 1684)
1677 - 1680
Jacob Joriszoon Pits
1680 - 1684
Cornelis van Quaelberg (d. 1687)
1684 - 1685
Nikolaas Schaghen
1685 Francois Tack
1686
Dirk Coomans (1st time)
1686 - 1691
Thomas Slicher
1691 - 1692
Dirk Coomans (2nd time)
1692 - 1696
Gelmer Vosburgh
1 Jan 1697 - 24 Nov 1700 Govert van Hoorn
24 Nov 1700 - 18 Jan 1704 Bernhard Phoonsen
18 Jan 1704 - 22 May 1704 Johan Grotenhuys (acting)
22 May 1704 - 7 Mar 1707 Karel Bolner
7 Mar 1707 - 26 Dec 1709 Pieter Rooselaar
26 Dec 1709 - 21 May 1711 Willem Six
21 May 1711 - 11 May 1717 Willem Moerman
(b. 16.. - d. 1717)
1717 - 1727
Herman van Suchtelen
1727 - 1730
Johan Frederik Gobius
1731 - 1736
Pieter Rochus Pasques de Chavonnes (b. 1697 - d. 1747)
1736 - 1743
Roger de Laver
1743 - 1749
Willem Bernard Albinus
1749 - 1753
Pieter van Heemskerk
1754 - 1758
Willem Dekker
1758 - 1764
David Boelen
1764 - 1772
Thomas Schippers
1772 - 1776
Jan Crans
1776 Pierre Jean Louis de Fillietaz
1776 - 1788
Pieter Gerardus de Bruijn
1788 - 1 Dec 1795
Abraham Couperus (b. 1752 - d. 1813)
Residents
15 Aug 1795 - 1795
Archibald Brown
(b. 17.. - d. 1825)
1795 - 1796
Thomas Parr
(b. 17.. - d. 1807)
1796 - 1797
Richard Tolson
1797 - 1798
David Campbell
(b. 1747 - d. 1828)
1798 - 1803
Aldwell Taylor
1802
Willem Jacob Cranssen
(b. 1762 -
d. 18..)
(Dutch governor; did not take office)
1803 - 1818
William Farquhar
(b. 1770 - d. 1839)
Governors
21 Sep 1818 - 16 Dec 1822 Jan Samuel Timmermann Thijssen (b. 1782 - d. 1823)
16 Dec 1822 - 17 Mar 1824 Adriaan Koek (acting)
17 Mar 1824 - 9 Apr 1825 Hendrik Stephanus van Son
Resident Councillors
1825
Walter Sewell Cracroft
(d. 1864)
1825 John James Erskine (acting) (b. 1777 - d. 1833)
1825 - 1826
Thomas Dolman Lloyd-Davies
(b. 1790 - d. 1828)
1826
Edward Presgrave
(b. c.1795 - d. 1830)
1826 Robert
Ibbetson
(b. 1789 - d. 1860)
1826
William Gordon Mackenzie
(b. 1785 - d. 1842)
1826 - 31 Jul 1841
Samuel Garling
(b. c.1793 - d. 1857) 6 Dec 1838 - 1841 William Thomas Lewis (1st time) (b. 1791 - d. 1875) (acting for Garling)
31 Jul 1841 - 1846
James William Salmond (b. 1807 - d. 1848) 184. - 184.
Thomas Church (acting for Salmond) (b.
c.1789 - d. 1860)
1843 - 1844
William Thomas Lewis (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting for Salmond)
1845 - 1846
Charles Hugh Lushington (b. 1813
- d. 1874) (acting for Salmond)
25 Nov 1846 - 1847 William Thomas Lewis (3rd time) (s.a.)
1847 - 1849
Edmund Augustus Blundell (b. 1804 - d. 1868) 1849
- 1854
Ilay Ferrier
(b. 1809 - d. 1854)
1854 - 1855
William Thomas Lewis (4th time) (s.a.)
1855 - 1857
Henry Stuart Man
(b. 1815 - d. 1898)
1857 - 1859
Ronald MacPherson
(b. 1817 - d. 1869)
1859 - 1860
Frederick Lyon Playfair (1st time) (b. 1830 - d. 1907)
1860 - 1861
James Burn (1st time)
1861 - 1864
Frederick Lyon Playfair (2nd time) (s.a.)
1864 - 1867
James Burn (2nd time)
1867
Frederick Lyon Playfair
(3rd time) (s.a.)
1867 - 1869
William Wellington Cairns
(b. 1828 - d. 1888)
8 Mar 1869 - 1879 Edward Wingfield Shaw
1879 - 1883
Charles John Irving
(b. 1831 - d. 1917)
1883 - 1895
Dudley Francis Amelius Hervey (b. 1849 -
d. 1911)
1 Jan 1895 - 4 Feb 1897
Charles Walter Sneyd-Kynnersley (b. 1849 - d. 1904)
1897 - 1898 Arthur Philip Talbot
(b. 1845 - d. 1920)
1898 - 1904
James Kortright Birch
(b. 1850 - d. 19..)
1904 - 1905 Frederick Gordon Penny
1 Jan 1905 - 13 Mar 1906 Robert Norman Bland
(b. 1859 - d. 1948)
15 Mar 1906 - 8 Feb 1910 William Evans
(b. 1860 - d. 1936)
(acting to 17 Feb 1907)
14 Feb 1909 - 25 Jul 1910 Ralph Scott
(b. 1874 - d. 1962)
(acting for Evans to 8 Feb 1910)
Residents
27 Jul 1910 - 24 May 1911
Littleton Edward Pipe-Wolferstan (b. 1866 - d. 1957)
(1st time) 24 May 1911 - 22 Jan 1912 Hayes Marriott (acting) (b. 1873 - d. 1929)
22 Jan 1912 - 15 Jun 1914 Littleton Edward Pipe-Wolferstan
(s.a.)
(2nd time) 15 Jun 1914 - 24 Dec 1915 Walter Cecil Michell (acting)
(b. 1864 - d. 1939)
24 Dec 1915 - 26 Jul 1918 ....
26 Jul 1918 - 27 Aug 1918 Bernard Nunn (1st time)(acting)
27 Aug 1918 - 1 Jan 1919 .... 1 Jan 1919 - 5 Mar 1919 Littleton Edward Pipe-Wolferstan
(s.a.)
(3rd time)
5 Mar 1919 - 21 Jun 1919 Bernard Nunn (2nd time)(acting)
21 Jun 1919 - 15 Mar 1920 Littleton Edward Pipe-Wolferstan
(s.a.)
(4th time) 15 Mar 1920
- 6 Jan 1921 Ralph Scott (acting)
(s.a.)
Resident Councillors
11 Jan 1921 - 1922 Littleton Edward Pipe-Wolferstan (s.a.)
15 Mar 1922 - 13 Apr 1925
William Langham-Carter
(b. 1869 - d. 1940)
(acting to 26 May 1922) Dec
1923 John
Vivian Gottlieb Mills (b. 1887 - d. 1987)
(acting for Langham-Carter)
14 Apr 1925 - 9 May 1926 Ralph Scott
(s.a.)
9 May 1926 - Jun 1926 Norman David Mudie (acting)
9 Jun 1926 - 25 Mar 1927 Meadows Frost
(b. 1875 - d. 1954)
3 Apr 1928 - 16 Nov 1928 Charles Francis Joseph Green
(acting)
16 Nov 1928 - 6 Apr 1930 Bertram Walter Elles
(b. 1877 - d. 19..) 6 Apr 1930 - 10 Apr 1930 Cecil Harry George Clarke
(1st time)(acting) 1930
Bryan Stagg Walton
(b. 1889 - d. 1958)
(acting for Clarke)
1 May 1931 - 9 Jan 1932
William Miles Millington (1st time)(b. 1883 - d. 19..)
10 Jan 1932 - 1933 Cecil Harry George Clarke
(2nd time)(acting)
24 Nov 1933 - 1934
William Miles Millington (2nd time)(s.a.)
20 Feb 1934 - 25 Nov 1934
James Startin Wills Arthur
(b. 1881 - d. 19..)
23 Nov 1935 - 6 Nov 1936
George William Bryant (1st time) (b. 1887 - d. 19..)
6 Nov 1936 - 22 May 1937 George Rognvald Sykes (acting) (b. 1889 - d.
19..) 10 Oct 1937 - 20 Oct 1939
George William Bryant (2nd time) (s.a.)
20 Oct 1939 - 1941 William Sydenham Ebden
(b. 1887 - d. 19..)
1941 William Cecil Taylor (acting)
Japanese Governors
1942 - 8 Jun 1944
Ken Tsurumi
8 Jun 1944 - 1944 H. Hosei
1944 - 1945
Takeo Kinukawa
Resident Commissioners
1945 - 1946 Harold Arthur Lee Luckham
(senior civil affairs officer to 1 Apr 1946)
1946 - 24 Nov 1947 Edward
Victor Grace Day
(b. 1896 - d. 1968)
24 Nov 1947 - 1949 John
Falconer
(b. 1898 - d. 19..)
Feb 1949 - Oct 1949 W.C. Taylor
1949 - Aug 1954
George Evans Cameron Wisdom
(b. 1899 - d. 1958)
Jan 1952 - Apr 1952 J.E.M. Cave (acting for Wisdom)
Apr 1952 - Oct 1952 Harold George Hammett (b. 1906 - d. 1999)
(acting for Wisdom)
Aug 1954 - Sep? 1954 F.R.C. Fowle (acting)
1954 - 31 Aug 1957 Harold
George Hammett (s.a.)
25 Sep 1956 - 1957 Maurice John Hayward (b. 1906)
(acting for Hammett)
Governors
31 Aug 1957 - 31 Aug 1959 Tun Leong Yew Koh
(b. 1888 - d. 1963)
31 Aug 1959 - 31 Aug 1971 Tun Abdul Malik bin Yusuf
(b. 1899)
31 Aug 1971 - 23 May 1975 Tun Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Majid
(b. 1908)
23 May 1975 - 4 Dec 1984 Tun Syed Zahiruddin bin Syed
(b. 1918)
Hassan
4 Dec 1984 - 4 Jun 2004 Tan Sri (from 1987, Tun)
Syed
(b. 1925 - d. 2008)
Ahmad Shahabuddin
4 Jun 2004 -
Tan Sri (from 28 Jul 2004, Tun) (b. 1937)
Khalil Yaakob
Chief ministers (title Ketua Menteri)
31 Aug 1957 - 1 Jun 1959 Datuk Kurnia Jasa Othman bin
Talib
1 Jun 1959 - 6 Oct 1967 Abdul Ghafar Baba
(b. 1925 - d. 2006)
6 Oct 1967 - 1 Aug 1972 Datuk Talib bin Karim
1 Aug 1972 - 11 Jul 1978 Datuk Setia Abdul Ghani Ali
(b. 1923? - d. 2004)
11 Jul 1978 - 26 Apr 1982 Mohd Adib Adam
(b. 1941)
22 Apr 1982 - 17 Jul 1994 Rahim Thamby Chik
(b. 1950)
UMNO/BN
(from 1983, Dato' Rahim
Thamby Chik;
from 1984, Datuk Seri Rahim
Thamby Chik;
from 1990, Tan Sri Rahim
Thamby Chik)
14 Oct 1994 - 14 May 1997 Datuk (from 14 Oct 1995, Datuk
Seri) Mohd Zin Abdul Ghani
(b. 1941 - d. 1997)
UMNO/BN
(acting to 2 Dec 1994)
22 May 1997 - 2 Dec 1999 Datuk Abu Zahar Isnin
(b. 1939)
UMNO/BN
2 Dec 1999 -
Datuk Wira (from 13 Oct 2001,
Datuk Seri) Mohd Ali Rustam
(b. 1949)
UMNO/BN
Naning
1641
State of Naning founded.
1832
Annexed by U.K. to Malacca.
Rulers (title Maharaja Lela)
.... - 1801
Datuk Anjak
1801 - 1832
Datuk Abdul Saiyid
Negeri
Sembilan
Adopted 1895
1773
Negeri Sembilan (a confederation
of nine states)
established.
1876
State reduced and renamed
Sri Menanti.
1888
British protectorate.
1 Jul 1896
Part of Federated Malay States.
1897
Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus re-established.
14 Jan 1942 - 12 Sep 1945 Occupied by Japan.
1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Rulers, with the title Yang Di-Pertuan Besar¹
1773 - 1795
Sultan Mahmud ibni Sultan
(d. 1795)
Abdul Jalil
1795 - 1808
Raja Hitam
(b. 17.. - d. 1808)
1808 - 1824
Raja Lenggang Laut
(d. 1824)
1824
Raja Radin ibni Raja
(b. c.1823 - d. 1861)
Lenggang Laut (1st time)
1824 - 1826
Raja Kerjan -Regent
(d. 1844)
1826 - 30 Nov 1831
Yamtuan Sati
30 Nov 1831 - 1833
Raja Radin ibni Raja
(s.a.)
Lenggang Laut (2nd time)
1833 - 1836
Raja Ali bin Daeng Alampaki (d. 1850)
1836 - 1861
Raja Radin ibni Raja
(s.a.)
Lenggang Laut (3rd time)
1861 - 1869
Yamtuan Ulin
(d. 1869)
1869 - 22 Oct 1888
Tengku Antah ibni Yamtuan Radin (d. 1888)
1869 - 1872
Tuanku Ampuan Intan (f) -Regent
22 Oct 1888 - 1 Aug 1933 Tuanku Muhammad ibni al-Marhum
(b. 1865 - d. 1933)
Yamtuan Antah
3 Aug 1933 - 1 Apr 1960 Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni
(b. 1895 - d. 1960)
al-Marhum Yamtuan Muhammad
31 Aug 1957 - 1 Apr 1960 Tuanku Munawir -Regent
(b. 1922 - d. 1967)
5 Apr 1960 - 14 Apr 1967 Tuanku Laksman Munawir ibni
(s.a.)
al-Marhum Yamtuan Abdul
Rahman
19 Apr 1967 - 27 Dec 2008 Tuanku Jaafar ibni al-Marhum (b. 1922 - d. 2008)
Yamtuan Abdul Rahman
26 Apr 1994 - 25 Apr 1999 Tuanku Naquiyuddin -Regent
(b. 1947)
29 Dec 2008 - Tuanku Mukhriz ibni al-Marhum (b. 1948)
Tuanku Munawir
Chief ministers (title Menteri Besar)
1 Feb 1948 - 11 Aug 1950 Abdul Malek bin Yusuf (1st
time)
11 Aug 1950 - 1 Jan 1951 Mohamad Salleh bin Sulaiman
1 Jan 1951 - 15 Apr 1952 Abdul Malek bin Yusuf (2nd
time)
15 Apr 1952 - 1 Oct 1952 Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Majid
1 Oct 1952 - 1 Oct 1953 Abdul Malek bin Yusuf
(3rd time)
1 Oct 1953 - 31 Jan 1959 Shamsuddin bin Nain
1 Apr 1959 - 23 Jun 1959 Mohamad Shariff bin Abdul
Samad
23 Jun 1959 - 10 May 1969 Mohamad Said bin Mohamad (d. 1996)
10 May 1969 - 12 Jul 1978 Mansor Othman
(b. 1923? - d. 1999)
PKN
12 Jul 1978 - 29 Apr 1982 Dato' Rais Yatim
(b. 1942)
UMNO/BN
29 Apr 1982 - 25 Mar 2004 Mohamed Isa Abdul Samad
(b. 1949)
UMNO/BN
(from 14 Jun 1982, Dato'
Mohamed Isa Abdul
Samad; from 5 Jun 1991,
Tan Sri
Mohamed Isa Abdul Samad)
25 Mar 2004 -
Datuk Mohamad Hasan
(b. 1956)
UMNO/BN
(from 19 Jul 2004,
Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan)
British Residents
(excluding Sungai Ujong and Jelebu until 1 Jan 1895)
1887 - 24 Feb 1897
Martin Lister
(b. 1857 - d. 1897)
(superintendant to 1 Jan 1895)
1894 - 1895
Robert Norman Bland
(b. 1859 - d. 1948)
(acting for Lister) 24
Feb 1897 - 7 Apr 1901 Ernest Woodford Birch
(b. 1857 - d. 1929)
(from 1900, Sir Ernest Woodford Birch)
(acting to 4 Jun 1897)
8 Apr 1901 - 17 Aug 1902 Henry Conway Belfield
(b. 1855 - d. 1923)
5 Apr 1901 - 28 Oct 1901 D.H. Wise (acting for Belfield)
29 Oct 1901 - 1 Jan 1902 Harvey Chevallier
(acting for Belfield)
2 Jan 1902 - 6 Feb 1902 D.H. Wise (acting for Belfield)
7 Feb 1902 - 22 May 1902 D.H. Wise (acting for Belfield)
23 May 1902 - 17 Aug 1902 D.H. Wise (acting for Belfield)
18
Aug 1902 - 26 Feb 1904 Walter
Egerton
(b. 1858 - d. 1947)
28 Nov 1903 - 18 May 1905 F.J. Weld
(acting for Egerton, then Campbell)
27 Feb 1904 - 31 Dec 1909 Douglas Graham Campbell
(b. 1867 - d. 1918)
17 Nov 1906 - 20 Apr 1908 R.C. Grey (acting for Campbell)
1 Jan 1910 - 31 Jan 1911 Edward Lewis Brockman
(b. 1865 - d. 1943) 1 Feb 1911 - 1912
Richard James Wilkinson
(b. 1867 - d. 1941)
(from 1912, Sir Richard James Wilkinson) 9 Sep 1911 - 1912 C.W.C. Parr (acting for Lemon)
25 Apr 1912 - 1919
Arthur Henry Lemon
(b. 1864 - d. 1933)
(from 1918, Sir Arthur Henry Lemon) 30 Aug 1917 - 1 Oct 1917 C.W. Harrison (acting for Lemon)
1 Jul 1919 - 21 May 1920 J.R.O. Aldworth
(acting to 2 Sep 1919)
22 Feb 1920 - 20 Jun 1920 W.J.P. Hume
(acting [for Aldworth to 21 May 1920])
29 Jun 1920 - 3 Feb 1922 V. Hill (acting to 13 Feb 1921)
5 Feb 1921 - 11 Apr 1921 A.B. Voules (acting for Hill)
4 Feb 1922 - 1924
Edward Shaw Hose
(b. 1871 - d. 1946)
7 May 1923 - 24 Oct 1923 R. Scott (acting for Hose)
18 Jul 1924 - 1928
Ernest Charteris Holford Wolff (b. 1875 - d. 1946)
1928 - 1932
James William Simmons
(b. 1877 - d. 19..)
1932 - 1936
John Whitehouse Ward Hughes (b.
1883 - d. 19..)
Dec 1936 - 1939
Gordon Lupton Ham
(b. 1885 - d. 1965)
1939 - 1941
John Vincent Cowgill
(b. 1888 - d. 1959)
Japanese governor
194. - 194.
Hatta Saburo
British Resident Commissioners
13 Sep 1945 - 1946 James Calder
(senior civil affairs officer to 1 Apr 1946)
1946 - May 1949
William Alexander Gordon-Hall (b. 1894 - d. 19..) Jun 1947 - Dec 1947
Ernest Edgar Pengilley
(b. 1897 - d. ....)
(acting for Gordon-Hall) May 1949 - Nov 1950 Hugh Patterson Croix de Guerre
(b. 1898 - d. 1977)
Bryson
Nov 1950 - Sep 1951 A. Hyde
1 Oct 1951
- 1955
Mervyn Cecil Sheppard
(b. 1905)
British Advisers
1955 - Jul 1956
Mervyn Cecil Sheppard
(s.a.) Jul 1956 - 1957 Vacant
¹Full style of the ruler: Yang di-Pertuan
Besar Negri Sembilan ("He who is the Highest Lord of Negri Sembilan").
As noted, Negeri Sembilan ("Nine States") is nominally
a confederation of several (originally nine) states. The six surviving
states, with an occasional subsidiary state, are recorded below. The premier
state (whose ruler substitutes during vacancies in the office of yang
di-pertuan besar of Negeri Sembilan) is Sungai Ujong.
Inas
c.1750
Luak Inas (also called Jelai) founded.
Rulers (title Undang Luak Inas)
.... - ....
Embun Serin (f)
.... - ....
Bayan
.... - 1810
Datuk Rambutan Jantan
1810 - ....
Datuk Nuri
.... - ....
Mantik
.... - ....
Cenderong
.... - ....
Sohat
.... - ....
Biong
.... - ....
Omar
.... - 1915
Sulung
1915 - 1930?
Ujang bin Cepus
19.. - 19..
Abdul Ghani bin Layar
19.. - 19..
Bacik bin Abdul Rahman
1957 - 1966?
Rentah bin Takin
Jelebu
1757
Ruler of Luak Jelebu adopts style of sultan.
1820 - 1884
Parallel government headed by a yang di-pertuan muda Jelebu.
1886 - 1895
Separate British protectorate.
Sultans and rulers (title Undang Luak Jelebu)
1757 - 17..
Datuk Moyang Saleh
17.. - 17..
Datuk Bukor
17.. - 17..
Datuk Bakul
17.. - 17..
Datuk Yunus
17.. - 18..
Datuk Lob
18.. - 18..
Datuk Duraman
1820?- 18..
Datuk Penghulu Rangga Ali Tua Tuk
Gila "Durongga"
18.. - 18..
Datuk Pandak
18.. - 18..
Datuk Mahmud (Kulup Tunggal)
18.. - 18..
Datuk Ibrahim
1883?- 1902
Datuk Saiyid Ali
1902 - 1945
Datuk Abdullah ibni Panglima Muda
1945 - 1962
Datuk Shamaruddin ibni Abdul
Rahman
1962 - 1966
Datuk Othman ibni Baginda (acting) (b. 1911)
1966 - 20 Nov 1979
Datuk Abu Bakar
(d. 1979)
4 Feb 1980 -
Datuk Musa bin Wahab
(b. 1937)
Rulers (title Yang di-Pertuan Muda Jelebu)
1820 - 18..
Tengku Ahmad Shah bin Singkul
18.. - c.1872
Tengku Jaya bin Sabun
(d. c.1872)
c.1872 - 1875
Tengku Etet bin Jaya
(d. 1875)
1875 - 13 Dec 1884
Tengku Abdullah bin Radin
(d. 1884)
Dec 1884 - Mar 1886 Tengku
Nambul bin Abdullah
British Collectors (subordinated to the Residents in Sungai Ujong)
8 Jun 1885 - 1890 Edward Peregrine
Gueritz (b. 1855 - d. 1938)
1890 - 1897 Arthur Louis Keyser
Jempol
c.1750
Luak Jempol founded, under suzerainty of Jelebu.
Rulers (title Datuk Penghulu)
.... - ....
Daim
.... - ....
Cap
.... - ....
Rial
.... - ....
Matik
1839?
Hasan
.... - ....
Johan
.... - 1916
Shukul
1916 - 19..
Abdul Wahab
1966?
Sulaiman bin Abdullah
Johol
1723
State of Pasir Besar renamed
Luak Johol.
Rulers (title Undang Luak Johol)
1723 - 1747
Datuk Putri Setiawan I (f)
1747 - c.1760
Datuk Rambut Panjang (f)
(d. c.1760)
c.1760 - c.1790
Datuk Putri Setiawan II (f) (d.
c.1790)
c.1790 - c.1810
Datuk Rambutan Jantan
c.1810 - c.1820
Datuk Nuri
c.1820 - c.1840
Datuk Abubakar Buncit (Gubah)
c.1840 - 1900
Datuk Saeto
(b. 1810? - d. 1900)
1901 - Feb 1918
Datuk Wan Omar bin Wan Hasan (d. 1918)
Mar 1918 - 14 Aug 1947 Datuk Kamat bin
Sulaiman (b.
1880 - d. 1947)
Oct 1947 - 10 Oct 1973 Datuk Abdul Manap
bin Tolok (b. 1907 - d. 1973)
10 Oct 1973 - 4 Apr 1985 Datuk Abdul Majid bin Abdul
Wahid (b. 1902 - d. 1985)
4 Apr 1985 - 29 Sep 1988 Datuk Abdul Rahman bin Mat
Som (b. 1909 - d. 1988)
29 Sep 1988 - 13 Mar 2007 Datuk Abdul bin Ali
(b. 1923 - d. 2007)
13 Mar 2007 - Datuk Muhammad bin Abdul Ghani (b. 1940)
Ulu Muar
c.1750
Luak Ulu Muar founded, under suzerainty of Johol.
Rulers (title Datuk Penghulu Luak Ulu Muar)
.... - 177.
Datuk Naam bin Khatib Akhir
177. - ....
Datuk Mindek
.... - ....
Datuk Mopeng
.... - ....
Datuk Ajong
.... - ....
Datuk Jaalam
.... - ....
Datuk Talun
1824? - 1839?
Datuk Bongkok Abdul Malik
.... - ....
Datuk Sidin
1910 - 19..
Datuk Hashim
1966?
Datuk Jailani
Rembau
1540
Luak Rembau founded.
1798 - 1836
Parallel government headed by a yang di-pertuan muda Rembau.
1887 - 1895
Separate British protectorate.
Rulers (title Undang Luak Rembau)
c.1690 - c.1725
Datuk Sedia Raja Kurup
c.1725 - c.1750
Datuk Sedia Raja Sabat
c.1750 - c.1790
Datuk Lela Maharaja Lulinsoh
c.1790 - c.1795
Datuk Sedia Raja Pekak
c.1795 - 1812
Datuk Lela Maharaja Kusil bin Uban
1812 - 1819
Datuk Sedia Raja Bogok
(d. 1819)
1819 - 1843
Datuk Lela Maharaja Nganit
1843 - 1872
Datuk Sedia Raja Akhir
1872 - 1883
Datuk Lela Maharaja Sahil
1883 - 1905
Datuk Sedia Raja Serun bin Saidin (d. 1905)
1905 - 1922
Datuk Lela Maharaja Sulung bin
Miah
(d. 1922)
1922 - 1938
Datuk Sedia Raja Abdullah bin
Dahan
(d. 1938)
1938 - Dec 1962
Datuk Lela Maharaja Ipap bin (d. 1962)
Abdullah
19 Jan 1963 - 21 Sep 1998 Datuk Sedia Raja Adnan bin Maah
(b. 1931 - d. 1998)
21 Nov 1998 -
Datuk Lela Maharaja Muhammad bin
Sharif Othman
(b. 1941)
Rulers (title Yang di-Pertuan Muda Rembau)
1798 - 1813
Raja Asil
(d. bf.1824)
(later named Sultan Muhammad
Shah)
1813 - 13 Sep 1832
Raja Ali bin Daeng Alampaki (d.
1850)
13 Sep 1832 - 1836
Saiyid Shaaban ibn Saiyid Ibrahim (d. 1872)
al-Qadri
Gunung
Pasir
c.1750
Luak Gunung Pasir founded, under suzerainty of Rembau.
Rulers (title Penghulu Luak Gunung Pasir)
.... - ....
Meshit
.... - ....
Tuakal
.... - ....
Mantik
.... - ....
Budin
.... - ....
Malik
.... - ....
Uteh
.... - ....
Alam
.... - ....
Kandak
.... - ....
Pacoh (Mentadoh)
.... - ....
Lahu
.... - ....
Muhammad Amin
1920?
Basir
1966?
Shamsuddin bin Bahali
Sungai
Ujong
bf.1700
Luak Sungai Ujong founded.
1874 - 1895
Separate British protectorate.
Rulers (title Penghulu Mentri)
.... - ....
Datuk Penghulu Kadim
.... - ....
Datuk Penghulu Pandak
.... - c.1760
Datuk Penghulu Chantak
(Rumah Gadong)
Rulers (title Undang Luak Sungai Ujong)
1760 - 1780
Datuk Bador
1780 - 1800
Datuk Leha
1800 - 1824
Datuk Bahi
1824 - 1850
Datuk Kawal
(d. c.1850)
1850 - 1873
Datuk Sendeng
(d. 1873)
1873 - 1881
Datuk Saiyid Abdul Rahman bin
Ahmad al-Qadri
(d. 1881)
1881 - 1889
Datuk Lela Setia Muhammad Yusof
bin Hashim
1889 - 15 Dec 1945
Datuk Maamor bin Kasim
(b. 1880 - d. 1945)
26 Mar 1946 - 23 Oct 1983 Datuk Muhammad Kasim ibni Datuk
(b. 1904 - d. 1983)
Andika Abdul Rahim
31 Mar 1984 -
Datuk Mubarak bin Thahak
(b. 1961)
British Residents
1874 - 1881
P.J. Murray
1881 - 30 Jun 1893
W.F.B. Paul 27 Aug 1889 - 30 Jun 1890 W.R.H. Carew (acting for Paul)
1 Jul 1893 - 5 Dec 1893 Walter
Egerton
(b. 1858 - d. 1947)
(officer in charge)
6 Dec 1893 - 1 Jan 1895 Robert Norman Bland
(b. 1859 - d. 1948)
(officer in charge)
Teraci
c.1750
Luak Teraci founded, under suzerainty of Sungai Ujong.
Rulers (title Penghulu Luak Teraci)
.... - ....
Ahmad bin Mantris Maharaja
.... - ....
Tengkis
.... - ....
Tuk "Pecat"
.... - ....
Dato
.... - ....
Linsoh
1839?
Sulung
.... - ....
Said
.... - ....
Adil
.... - 1919
Jaal
1919 - 19..
Sohor
19.. - 19..
Arifin
19.. - 19..
Ujang bin Yahya
1966?
Lebai Hussin
Tampin
13 Sep 1832
Luak Tampin founded.
Rulers (title from 1883 Tunku Besar Tampin)
13 Sep 1832 - 1856
Raja Ali bin Daeng Alampaki (b.
c.1784 - d. 1856)
1856 - 1872
Saiyid Shaaban ibni Saiyid Ibrahim
al-Qadri
(d. 1872)
1872 - 1894
Saiyid Abdul Hamid ibni Saiyid
Shaaban al-Qadri
(d. 1894)
1894 - 19..
Saiyid Dewa ibni Saiyid Abdul
Hamid al-Qadri
19.. - 19..
Saiyid Akil ibni Saiyid Dewa (d. bf.1920)
al-Qadri
19.. - May 1929
Saiyid Muhammad ibni Saiyid Dewa
al-Qadri
(d. 1929)
19.. - May 1929
Sharifah Leng bint Saiyid Abdul
Hamid (f) -Regent (1st time)
May 1929 - 26 Dec 2005 Saiyid Idris ibni
Saiyid Muhammad
al-Qadri
(b. 1927 - d. 2005)
May 1929 - 21 Dec 1945 Sharifah Leng bint
Saiyid Abdul
Hamid (f) -Regent (2nd time)
26 Dec 2005 -
Saiyid Razman ibni Saiyid Idris (b. 1962)
al-Qadri
Pahang
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c.1853 - 1887
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1460
Negeri Pahang Darul Makmur established.
1623 - 1853
In personal union with Johor, eventually becoming
a
fief of the Bendahara.
Aug 1888
British protectorate.
1 Jul 1896
Part of Federated Malay States.
3 Jan 1942 - 12 Sep 1945 Occupied by Japan (Malay Federation).
1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Rulers, with the title Bendahara Seri Maharaja
1756 - 1802
Tun Abdul Majid bin Tun Hasan (b. 1718 -
d. 1802)
1802 - 1803
Tun Muhammad bin Tun Abdul Majid (b. 17.. - d. 1803)
1803 - 1806
Tun Koris bin Tun Abdul Majid (b. 17.. -
d. 1806)
1806 - 1857
Tun Ali bin Tun Koris
(b. 1782 - d. 1857)
1857 - 30 May 1863
Tun Muhammad Tahir bin Tun Ali (b. 1813 - d. 1863)
30 May 1863 - 3 Jun 1863 Muda Koris bin Tun Muhammad
Tahir (b. 18.. - d. 1863)
10 Jun 1863 - 6 Aug 1882 Tun Ahmad bin Tun Ali
(b. 1836 - d. 1914)
Sultans¹
6 Aug 1882 - 3 Apr 1909 Tuanku Ahmad al-Muadzam
Shah ibni
(s.a.)
al-Marhum Tun Ali 3 Apr 1909 - 19 Jun 1917 Tuanku Mahmud Shah ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Ahmad al-Muadzam
Shah (b. 1868
- d. 1917)
19 Jun 1917 - 23 Jun 1932 Tuanku Abdullah al-Mutasim Billah
ibni al-Marhum Sultan Ahmad
al-Muadzam Shah
(b. 1874 - d. 1932)
23 Jun 1932 - 7 May 1974 Tuanku Abu Bakar Riayatuddin
al-Muadzam Shah ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Abdullah
(b. 1904 - d. 1975)
7 May 1974 -
Tuanku Ahmad Shah al-Mustain (b. 1930)
Billah ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Abu
Bakar Riayatuddin al-Muadzam
Shah
29 Mar 1979 - 25 Apr 1984 Tengku Abdullah -Regent
(b. 1959)
Chief ministers (title Menteri Besar)
1 Feb 1948 - 1 Feb 1951 Dato' Setia Wangsa Sir
Mahmud bin
Mat
1 Feb 1951 - 1 Feb 1955 Tengku Panglima Perang
Tengku
Mohamad ibni al-Marhum
Sultan
Ahmad (1st time)
1 Feb 1955 - 15 Jun 1955 Orang Kaya Indera Shahbandar
Abdul
Razak bin Hussein
(b. 1922 - d. 1976)
15 Jun 1955 - 8 Jan 1957 Tengku Panglima Perang Tengku
Muhamad ibni al-Marhum
Sultan
Ahmad (2nd time)
9 Jan 1957 - 18 Jul 1959 Datuk Kurnia Paduka Raja Abdullah
bin Tok Muda Ibrahim
18 Jul 1959 - 5 May 1964 Orang Kaya Indera Pahlawan
Wan
Abdul Aziz bin Ungku Abdullah
5 May 1964 - 1 Sep 1972 Dato' Pentara Raja Tan
Sri Yahaya
bin Mohd Seh
1 Sep 1972 - 18 Jul 1978 Datuk Seri Mohamad bin Jusoh
UMNO
19 Jul 1978 - 7 Nov 1981 Datuk Abdul Rahim bin Bakar
11 Nov 1981 - 4 May 1982 Datuk Abdul Rashid bin Abdul
Rahman
4 May 1982 - 14 Aug 1986 Dato' (from 24 Oct 1985, Dato'
Seri) Najib Tun Razak
(b. 1953)
UMNO/BN
14 Aug 1986 - 20 May 1999 Dato' (from 24 Oct 1987, Dato'
Seri; from 24 Apr 1989,
Tan Sri)
Khalil Yaakob
(b. 1937)
UMNO/BN
20 May 1999 -
Dato' (from 24 Oct 1999, Dato'
Seri; from 9 Oct 2004,
Datuk Seri)
Adnan Yaakob
(b. 1950)
UMNO/BN
British Residents
Oct 1888 - Jun 1896 John
Pickersgill Rodger
(b. 1851 - d. 1910)
Jul 1896 - Dec 1899 Hugh Clifford
(1st time) (b.
1866 - d. 1941)
Jan 1900 - Apr 1901
Arthur Butler
(b. 18.. - d. 1901)
Feb 1901 - Mar 1901 D.H. Wise (acting)
Apr 1901 - Sep 1904
Sir Hugh Clifford (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Sep 1904 - Mar 1908
Cecil Wray Mar 1908 - Oct 1908 Harvey Chevallier (acting)
Oct 1908 - Dec 1909 Sir Edward
Lewis Brockman (b. 1865 - d.
1943) Jan
1910 - Jun 1911 Warren Delabere
Barnes
(b. 1865 - d. 19..)
Jun 1911 - 1916
Edward John Brewster
(b. 1861 - d. 1931)
Mar 1912 - Apr 1913 F.J. Weld (acting for Brewster)
Feb 1916 - Jul 1921
Cecil William Chase Parr
(b. 1871 - d. 1943)
Jul 1921 - 1926
Henry Wagstaffe Thomson
(b. 1874 - d. 1941)
Nov 1921 - Sep 1922
F.A.S. McClelland
(b. 1873 - d. 1947)
(acting for Thomson)
1926 - 1929
Arthur Furley Worthington
(b. 1874 - d. 1964)
1929 - 1930
C.F.J Green
1931 - 1935
Hugh Goodwin Russell Leonard (b. 1880
- d. 19..)
Sep 1935 - 1941
Charles Cuthbert Brown (b. 1888 - d. 19..)
1937 - 1938
J.V. Cowgill (acting for Brown)
Japanese governors
1942 - Aug 1945
....
British Resident Commissioners 1945 - 1946 .... 1 Apr 1946 - 1946 John Allen Harvey (1st time)
(b. 1900)
9
Jun 1946 - 8 Jul 1946 Arthur Vincent Aston
(b. 1896 - d. 1981)
1946 - 1948
Arthur Sleep
(b. 1894 - d. 19..)
Aug 1947 - 194.
John Allan Harvey
(s.a.)
(acting for Sleep)
1948
- Feb 1953
Wilfred Charles Steuart Corry (b. 1900 - d. 1974)
1949?
Laird (acting for Corry)
May 1950 - 1950 A. Hyde (acting for Corry)
Feb 1953 - Jul 1953
John L.H. Davis (acting)
(b. 1911 - d. 2006) Jul 1953 - Oct 1954 John Allen Harvey (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Oct 1954 - Feb 1955 J.E.M. Cave
British Advisers Feb 1955 - 1956 Maurice John Hayward (b. 1906)
1956 - 1957
....
¹Full style of the ruler: KeBawah Duli Yang
Maha Mulia Sultan dan Yang di-Pertuan Negara Pahang Darul Makmur ("Sultan
and Head of State of Pahang").
Patani: see under Thailand
Penang
(Pinang)
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1867 - 1942 Straits Settlements
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1786 - 1867, 1945 - 11 Sep 1949
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11 Sep 1949 - 31 Aug 1957 State Ensign
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11 Sep
1949 - 1957 State Flag
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Adopted 1957
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11 Aug 1786
Prince of Wales Island colony (under British East India Company)
ceded to Britain by Sultan
of Kedah.
1790
Failed attempt by Sultan
of Kedah to retake Penang.
Jun 1801
Province Wellesley on mainland added (confirmed Nov 1802).
1805 - 1830
Prince of Wales Island Presidency (under British East India Co.)
1867
Renamed Penang Island.
14 Aug 1826
Part of Straits Settlements (see Singapore).
1 Apr 1867
Crown colony
1 Jul 1896
Part of Federated Malay States.
Feb 1935
Dindings dependency merged with Perak.
19 Dec 1941 - 4 Sep 1945 Occupied by Japan (Malay Federation).
1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Superintendents (of the British East India Company)
11 Aug 1786 - 21 Oct 1794 Francis Light
(b. 1740 - d. 1794)
21 Oct 1794 - 14 May 1795 Philip Manington (acting) (d. 1807)
14 May 1795 - May 1799 Forbes Ross MacDonald
(d. 1799)
31 Jan 1796 - 3 Apr 1796 John Beanland
(acting for MacDonald)
May 1799 - 20 Apr 1800 George Caunter (acting)
Lieutenant governors
20 Apr 1800 - 1804
Sir George Leith
(b. 1766 - d. 1842)
Jan 1804 - 1805
Robert Townsend Farquhar
(b. 1776 - d. 1866)
Governors (at Singapore from 1825-16, from 1829) Sep 1805
- 8 Apr 1807 Philip
Dundas
(b. 17.. - d. 1807)
13 Apr 1807 - 17 Oct 1807 Henry Shepherd Pearson (acting) (b. c.1775 - d. 1840)
17 Oct 1807 - 1810
Norman Macalister
21
Mar 1810 - Dec 1810 Charles Andrew
Bruce
(b. 1768 - d. 1810)
28 Dec 1810 - 1811 William Edward Phillips (1st time) (b. 1769 - d. 18..)
(acting)
9 May 1811 - 27 Jul 1812 Archibald Seton
(b. 1758 - d. 1818)
(absent from 13 Mauy 1811)
13 May 1811 - Oct 1816 William Petrie (acting to Sep 1812)(b. 1748 - d. 1816)
Oct 1816 - 1817
William Edward Phillips (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
1817 - 8 Aug 1819
John Alexander Bannerman
(b. 1758 - d. 1819)
1819 - 20 Aug 1824
William Edward Phillips (3rd time) (s.a.)
(acting to 4 Jun 1820)
20 Aug 1824 - 12 Nov 1829 Robert Fullerton
(b. 1773 - d. 1831)
1825 - 13 Jul 1826 William Clubley (resident councillor)
12
Nov 1829 - 1833 Robert
Ibbetson
(b. 1789 - d. 1860)
(resident councillor 1826 - 12 Nov
1829;
deputy-resident 1830-1831)
7 Dec 1833 - 18 Nov 1836 Kenneth Murchison
(b. 1794 - d. 1854)
18 Nov 1836 - Jan 1843 Samuel George Bonham
(b. 1803 - d. 1863)
14 Jun 1843 - 1848 William
John Butterworth
(b. 1801 - d. 1856)
Resident Councillors
1848
- 1849 Samuel Garling
(b.
c.1793 - d. 1857)
1849
- 21 Mar 1855 Edmund Augustus
Blundell (b. 1804 - d. 1868)
1855 - Sep 1860
William Thomas Lewis
(b. 1791 - d. 1875)
1860 George Samuel Windsor Earl (acting)(d. 1865)
1860 - 1867
Henry Stuart Man
(b. 1815 - d. 1898)
8 Jun 1867 - 1882
Archibald Edward Harbord Anson (b. 1826 - d. 1925)
1882 - 1884 John
Frederick Adolphus McNair (b. 1828 - d. 1910)
(acting)
1884
David Thompson Hatchell (acting) (b. 1840 - d. ...)
1884 - 1885 Samuel Dunlop (acting)
1885 - 1887
Charles John Irving
(b. 1831 - d. 1917)
1887 - 1897
Allan Maclean Skinner
(b. 1846 - d. 1901)
1894 - 1895 Francis
James Anderson (acting) (b. 18.. - d. 1920)
5 May 1897 - 11 Jul 1904 Charles Walter Sneyd-Kynnersley (b. 1849 - d. 1940)
1904 - 1907
James Kortright Birch
(b. 1850 - d. 19..)
1 Jun 1905 - 190. Leonard Powney
Ebden (b. 1864 - d. 1934)
(acting for Birch)
17 Feb 1907 - 1910
Robert Norman Bland
(b. 1859 - d. 1948)
28 May 1908 - 3 Jul 1908 Harold William Firmstone
(acting for Bland)
29 Apr 1910 - 18 Jan 1911 James Oliver Anthonisz (acting)
21 Jan 1911 - 11 May 1912 William Evans (1st time)
(b. 1860 - d. 1936)
11 May 1912 - 29 Jan 1913 Walter Cecil Michell (1st time) (b. 1864 - d. 1939)
(acting)
29 Jan 1913 - 13 Feb 1914 William Evans (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1914 - 1917
Alfred Thomas Bryant (b. 1860 - d. 19..)
26 Feb 1917 - 5 Oct 1917 William Peel (1st time)(acting)
(b. 1875 - d. 1940)
7 Oct 1917 - 1919
Walter Cecil Michell (2nd time) (s.a.)
24 Jul 1919 - 27 Feb 1920 Gilbert Amos Hall (1st time) (b. 1867 - d. 19..) (acting to 20 Oct 1919)
28 Feb 1920 - 31 Jan 1921 Harold William Firmstone (acting)
31 Jan 1921 - 9 Sep 1922 Gilbert Amos Hall (2nd time) (s.a.)
17 Nov 1922 - 1925
Arthur Blennerhassett Voules (b. 1870
- d. 1954)
(acting to 9 Dec 1922)
11 May 1924 - 8 Oct 1924 Stewart Codrington
(acting for Voules) 10 May 1925 - 9 May 1926
William Peel (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting to 9 Jul 1925)
May 1926 - 1928
Ralph Scott (acting to 9 Jun 1926)
(b. 1874 - d. 19..)
8 Apr 1928 - 1930
Meadows Frost
(b. 1875 - d. 1954)
(acting to 8 Jul 1930)
17 Jan 1930 - 1931
Edward Wilmot Francis Gilman (b. 1876
- d. 1955)
(acting to 17 Apr 1930)
2 May 1931 - 1933
Percy Tothill Allen
(b. 1878 - d. 19..)
(acting to 16 Aug 1931)
1 Apr 1933 - 20 Apr 1933 Arthur Vincent Aston (1st time)
(b. 1896 - d. 1981)
(acting)
21 Apr 1933 - 24 Nov 1934 Arthur Mitchell Goodman (1st time) (b. 1886 - d. 1961)
(acting to 14 Oct 1933)
24 Nov 1934 - 1935 James Startin Wills Arthur (acting)(b. 1881 - d. 19..)
29 Aug 1935 - 8 Dec 1937 Arthur Mitchell Goodman (2nd time) (s.a.)
8 Dec 1937 - 6 Jul 1938 George Alexander de Chazal (b. 1888 -
d. 1976)
Moubray (acting)
6 Jul 1938 - 1941 Arthur Mitchell Goodman (3rd time) (s.a.)
1940 - Dec 1941 Leslie Forbes (b. 1889 - d. 19..)
(acting for Goodman to 3 Aug 1941)
1941
Norman Grice (1st time)(acting)
(b. 1893 -
d. 1966)
Japanese Governors
20 Dec 1941 - 1942 Hiroyasu
15 Mar 1942 - 22 Apr 1943 Shotaro Katayama
(b. 1889 - d. 1982)
22 Apr 1943 - 22 Aug 1944
Masakichi Itami (b. 1883 - d. 1964)
22 Aug 1944 - 1945 Seiichiro Shinohara (1st time)
1944
S. Ikagawa (acting)
1944 - 1945 Seiichiro Shinohara (2nd time)
British Military Governors
24 Sep 1945 - 1945
Peter Dicken Cracroft
(b. 1907 - d. 2003)
1945 - 1946
Thomas John Norman Hilken
(b. 1901 - d. 1969)
Resident Resident Commissioners 8 Mar 1946 - May 1946
Norman Grice (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting to 1 Apr 1946)
7 May 1946 - 29 Feb 1948 Sydney Noel King
(b. 1897 - d. ....)
1948
George Evan Cameron Wisdom
(b. 1899 - d. 1958)
(acting)
1948 - 1951
Arthur Vincent Aston (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1951 - 31 Aug 1957
Robert Porter Bingham
(b. 1903 - d. 1982)
1952 - 26 Oct 1952 Norman Ward (acting for Bingham) (b. 1904)
25 Jun 1954 - 17 Jul 1954 John Sjovald Hoseason Cunyngham- (b. 1905 - d. 1989)
Brown (acting for Bingham)
23 Dec 1954 - 30 Dec 1954 Herbert Raymond Ellis
(acting for Bingham)
30 Dec 1954 - 3 Aug 1955 David Gray (acting for Bingham) (b. 1906 - d. 1976)
Heads of State (title Yang di-Pertua Negeri)
31 Aug 1957 - 30 Aug 1967 Raja Sir Tun Uda Al-Haj bin Raja
(b. 1894 - d. 1976)
Muhammad
31 Aug 1967 - 31 Jan 1969 Tun Syed Sheh bin Syed Abdullah
(b. 1910 - d. 1969)
Shahabuddin
5 Feb 1969 - 5 Feb 1975 Tun Syed Sheh bin Syed
Hassan (b. 1906 - d. 1975)
Barakbah
5 Feb 1975 - 1 May 1981 Tan Sri (from Jun 1976,
Tun) (b. 1917 - d. 1985)
Sardon Jubir
1 May 1981 - 1 May 1989 Tun Awang Hassan
(b. 1910 - d. 1998)
1 May 1989 - 1 May 2001 Tan Sri (from 7 Jun 1989,
Tun) (b. 1921 - d. 2005)
Hamdan Sheikh Tahir
1 May 2001 -
Dato' Seri (from 9 Jul 2001, Tun) (b. 1938)
Abdul Rahman Abbas
Chief ministers (title Ketua Menteri)
12 Jun 1959 - 12 May 1969 Wong Pow Nee
(b. 1911 - d. 2002)
MCA
12 May 1969 - 25 Oct 1990 Lim Chong Eu
(b. 1919)
Gerakan
25 Oct 1990 - 11 Mar 2008 Koh Tsu Koon
(b. 1949)
Gerakan
(from 3 Jun 1995, Tan Sri
Koh Tsu Koon) 11 Mar 2008 - Lim Guan Eng
(b.
1960) DAP
Perak
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18th cent - 1879
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Adopted 1879
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1528
Negeri Perak Darur Ridzwan established.
1816 - 20 Jan 1874
Under Thai sovereignty.
20 Jan 1874
British protectorate
1 Jul 1896
Part of Federated Malay States.
Feb 1935
Dindings dependency of Penang merged into Perak.
26 Dec 1941 - 12 Sep 1945 Occupied by Japan (Malay Federation).
1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Sultans¹
1654 - 1720
Mahmud I Iskandar Shah Auliaullah (b. 1654 - d. 1720)
ibni al-Marhum Maulana
Paduka
Sri Sultan Muzaffar
1654 - 9 Oct 1675
Sultana Ratu Taj ul-Alam -Regent
1720 - 1728
Aladdin Mughayat Riayat Shah ibni (d. 1728)
al-Marhum Raja Mansur
1728 - 1742
Muzaffar Shah III Jalalullah ibni (d. 1754)
al-Marhum Raja Mansur (1st
time)
1742 - 1750
Muhammad Shah Aminullah ibni (d. 1750)
al-Marhum Raja Mansur
1750 - 30 Aug 1754
Muzaffar Shah III Jalalullah ibni (s.a.)
al-Marhum Raja Mansur (2ns
time)
30 Aug 1754 - 14 Jul 1765 Iskandar Zukarnain Shah Kaharullah
(d. 1765)
Khalifat ur-Rahman Johan
Berdaulat
Zillullahi fil-Alam ibni
al-Marhum
Sultan Muhammad Shah Amanullah
14 Jul 1765 - 17 Jun 1773 Mahmud II Shah ibni al-Marhum
(d. 1773)
Sultan Muhammad Shah Amanullah
17 Jun 1773 - Sep 1792 Aladdin Mansur Iskandar
Muda Shah (d. 1792)
Khalifat ur-Rahman Sulong
ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad
Shah
Amanullah
1786 - Sep 1792
Ahmadin Shah ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Muhammad Shah -Regent (d. 1806)
Sep 1792 - 1806
Ahmadin Shah ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Muhammad Shah
(s.a.)
1806 - 18 Nov 1818
Abdul Malik Mansur Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Ahmadin
Shah (d. 1825)
18 Nov 1818 - 18 Aug 1825 Raja Tajuddin ibni Sultan Abdul
Malik Mansur Shah -Regent
18 Aug 1825 - 20 Dec 1830 Abdullah Muadzam Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Abdul
Malik (d. 1830)
Mansur Shah
20 Dec 1830 - 1851
Shahabuddin Riayat Shah ibni (d. 1851)
al-Marhum Raja Inu
1851 - 1857
Abdullah Muhammad Shah I
ibni al-Marhum Raja Inu
(d. 1857)
1857 - 20 Mar 1865
Jaafar Safiuddin Muadzam Shah
ibni al-Marhum Raja Ahmad
(d. 1865)
20 Mar 1865-25/26 May 1871 Ali al-Mukammal Inayat Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Shahabuddin
Riayat Shah
(d. 1871)
26 May 1871 - 20 Jan 1874 Ismail Muabidin Riayat Shah ibni
al-Marhum Syed Shaikh al-Khairat
(d. 1889)
20 Jan 1874 - 30 Mar 1877 Abdullah Muhammad Shah II
ibni al-Marhum Sultan Jaafar
Safiuddin Muadzam Shah
(b. 1842 - d. 1922)
30 Mar 1877 - 26 Jul 1887 Tuanku Yusuf Sharifuddin Mufdzal
Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan
(d. 1887)
Abdullah Muhammad Shah
(regent to 11 May 1887)
26 Jul 1887 - 14 Jan 1916 Tuanku Idris Murshidul Aadzam Shah
ibni al-Marhum Raja Bendahara
Alang Iskandar
(b. 1849 - d. 1916)
14 Jan 1916 - 26 Oct 1918 Tuanku Abdul Jalil Nasruddin
Muhtaram Shah ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Idris Murshidul
Aadzam (b. 18.. - d.
1918)
Shah
26 Oct 1918 - 14 Oct 1938 Tuanku Iskandar Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Idris
Murshidul
Aadzam Shah
(b. 1881 - d. 1938)
14 Oct 1938 - 29 Mar 1948 Tuanku Abdul Aziz al-Mutasim
Billah Shah ibni al-Marhum
Raja
Muda Musa
(b. 1887 - d. 1948)
31 Mar 1948 - 4 Jan 1963 Tuanku Yusuf Izzuddin Shah
ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Abdul
Jalil
Nasruddin Muhtaram Shah
(b. 1890 - d. 1963)
4 Jan 1963 - 31 Jan 1984 Tuanku Idris al-Mutawakkil
Alallah
Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Iskandar Shah Kadasaullah
(b. 1924 - d. 1984)
3 Feb 1984 -
Tuanku Azlan Muhibuddin Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Yusuf
Izzuddin
Shah Ghafarullahu-Lah
(b. 1928)
26 Apr 1989 - 25 Apr 1994 Raja Nazrin -Regent (1st time) (b. 1956)
28 Jan 2008 - Raja Nazrin -Regent (2nd time) (s.a.)
Chief ministers (title Menteri Besar)
1 Feb 1948 - 1 Aug 1957 Abdul Wahab bin Toh Muda
Abdul
(b. 1905 - d. 1959) BN
Aziz
1 Aug 1957 - 16 Apr 1960 Mohamed Ghazali bin Jawi
(b. 1924) BN
(1st time)
16
Apr 1960 - 7 May 1964 Shaari bin
Shafie
(b. 1912) BN 7
May 1964 - 18 Mar 1970 Ahmad bin Said
(b. 1919) BN 18 Mar 1970 - 4 Sep 1974 Kamaruddin bin Mohd Isa
(b. 1930) BN 4 Sep 1974 - 1 Oct 1977 Mohamed Ghazali bin Jawi
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
1
Oct 1977 - 1 Mar 1983 Wan Mohamed bin Wan Teh
(b. 1929) BN 1 Mar 1983 - 3 Dec 1999 Ramli Ngah Talib (from
May 1984,
Dato' Seri Ramli Ngah Talib;
from
7 Jun 1989, Tan Sri Ramli
Ngah
Talib)
(b. 1941)
UMNO/BN
3 Dec 1999 - 17 Mar 2008 Dato' Seri (from 11 Oct 2003,
Datuk Seri) Mohd Tajol
Rosli
Ghazali
(b. 1944)
UMNO/BN 17 Mar 2008 - 6 Feb 2009 Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin (from
19 Apr 2008, Datuk Seri Mohammad
Nizar Jamaluddin)(1st time)
(b. 1957) PAS
6 Feb 2009 - 11 May 2009 Datuk Zambry Abdul Kadir (1st time)(b. 1962) BN
11 May 2009 - 12 May 2009 Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar (s.a.) PAS
Jamaluddin (2nd time)
12 May 2009 -
Datuk Zambry Abdul Kadir (2nd time)(s.a.)
BN
British Residents
4 Oct 1874 - 2 Nov 1875 James Wheeler Woodford
Birch (b. 1826 - d. 1875)
Nov 1875 - Mar 1876 Frank Athelstane Swettenham (b.
1850 - d. 1946)
(1st time)(acting) 11 Apr 1876 - 31 Mar 1877 James
Guthrie Davidson
1 Apr 1877 - 31 May 1889 Hugh Low (from 1883, Sir Hugh Low) (b. 1824 - d. 1905)
1 Jun 1889 - 30 Jun 1896 Frank Athelstane Swettenham (s.a.)
(2nd time) 1
Jul 1896 - 12 Dec 1901 Sir William Hood Treacher
(b. 1849 - d. 1919)
13 Dec 1901 - 9 Feb 1904 John Pickersgill Rodger
(b. 1851 - d. 1910)
4 Nov 1903 - 7 Nov 1904 Henry Conway Belfield
(b. 1855 - d. 1923)
(acting for Rodger)
10 Feb 1904 - 5 Mar 1911 Ernest Woodford Birch
(b. 1857 - d. 1929)
15 Apr 1908 - 10 Dec 1908 Edward Lewis Brockman
(b. 1865 - d. 1943)
(acting for Birch)
6 Jul 1910 - 30 Aug 1910 Oliver Marks (acting for Birch)
6 Dec 1910 - 31 Jan 1911 Edward Lewis Brockman
(s.a.)
(acting for Birch)
6 Mar 1911 - 15 Dec 1911
Henry Conway Belfield
(s.a.)
15 Dec 1911 - 9 Aug 1912 Oliver Marks (acting)
9 Aug 1912 - 12 Aug 1912
William James Parke Hume
(b. 1866 - d. 1952)
(1st time)(acting)
12 Aug 1912 - 17 Sep 1919
Reginald George Watson
(b. 1862 - d. 1926)
3 Apr 1914 - 8 Feb 1915 Oliver Marks (acting for Watson)
11 Nov 1916 - 23 Dec 1916 Oliver Marks (acting for Watson)
17 Sep 1919 - 12 Sep 1920 W. George
Maxwell
(b. 1871 - d. 1959)
(acting to 19 Dec 1919)
29 Jun 1920 - 13 Jul 1921 William James Parke Hume
(s.a.)
(acting for Maxwell to 12 Sep 1921)
(2nd time)
14 Jul 1921 - 1925
Cecil William Chase Parr
(b. 1871 - d. 1943)
20 Apr 1923 - 6 Sep 1923 F.A.S. McClelland (acting for Parr)
20 Dec 1925 - 1927
Oswald Francis Gerard Stonor (b. 1872
- d. 1940)
6 Jun 1927 - 1929
Henry Wagstaffe Thomson
(b. 1874 - d. 1941)
1929 - 1930
Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane (b. 1876 - d. 1932)
1931 - 1932
Bertram Walter Elles
(b. 1877 - d. 1963)
1933 - 1939
Geoffrey Edmund Cator (b. 1884 - d. 1973)
1939 - 1941
Marcus Rex
(b. 1886 - d. 1971)
Japanese Governors
1942 - 1943
Kubata Shun
194. - 1945
Takajiro
1945
Nomura
1945
Oda
British Resident Commissioners
1945 - 1946 .... 1946
- Dec 1947 Adolphe Charles
Jomaron
(b. 1893 - d. 1963)
1 Apr 1946 - 1946 V. Champion de Crespigny (d. 1952)
(acting for Jomaron)
8 Jul 1946 - Sep 1947 Arthur Vincent Aston
(b. 1896 - d. 1981)
(acting for Jomaron)
Dec 1947 - Oct 1948 James Innes Miller
(b. 1892 - d. 19..)
Nov 1948 - 1951 John Graham Black
(b. 1896 - d. 19..)
1951 - 1955 I.W. Blelloch
(b. 1901) Mar 1953 - Dec? 1953
Edwin Cyril Geddes Barrett (b. 1909)
(acting for Blelloch)
Apr 1955 - Aug 1955 J.K. Creer (acting for Blelloch)
British Advisers
1955 - 1956 I.W. Blelloch
(s.a.)
(from 1955, Sir I.W. Blelloch)
1956 - 1957
....
¹Full style of the ruler: Duli Yang Maha
Mulia Maulana Paduka Sri Sultan dan Yang di-Pertuan Negara Perak Darur
Ridzwan ("Sultan and Head of the State of Perak").
Perlis
Adopted 1870
1759
Negeri Perlis Indera Kayangan established (subject
to Kedah to 1821).
12 Sep 1821 - 16 Jul 1909 Perlis under Thai sovereignty.
16 Jul 1909
British protectorate (an unfederated Malay state).
8 Dec 1941 - 20 Aug 1943 Occupied by Japan (Malay Federation).
20 Aug 1943 - 8 Sep 1945 Annexed by Thailand.
1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Rajas¹
20 May 1834 - 21 Nov 1873 Syed Husain ibni al-Marhum Syed
Harun Jamalullail
(b. 1805 - d. 1873)
21 Nov 1873 - 17 Feb 1897 Syed Ahmad ibni al-Marhum Syed
Husain Jamalullail
(b. 1825 - d. 1897)
17 Feb 1897 - 30 Dec 1904 Syed Safi ibni al-Marhum Syed
Alawi Jamalullail
(b. 1862 - d. 1905)
30 Dec 1904 - 1 Feb 1943 Syed Alawi ibni al-Marhum
Syed
Safi Jamalullail
(b. 1881 - d. 1943)
2 Feb 1943 - 20 Aug 1943 Syed Hamzah ibni al-Marhum
Syed Safi Jamalullail (1st
time) (b. 1895 - d. 1958)
8 Sep 1945 - 17 Sep 1945 Syed Hamzah ibni al-Marhum
Syed Safi Jamalullail (2nd
time) (s.a.)
17 Sep 1945 - 16 Apr 2000 Syed Harun Putra ibni al-Marhum
Syed Hasan Jamalullail
(b. 1920 - d. 2000)
1 Sep 1960 - 20 Aug 1965 Tengku Sulaiman -Regent
(b. 1932)
17 Apr 2000 -
Syed Sirajuddin ibni al-Marhum
Syed Putra Jamalullail
(b. 1943)
13 Dec 2001 - 12 Dec 2006 Syed Faizuddin Putra -Regent (b. 1967)
Chief ministers (title Menteri Besar)
Feb 1948 - Jan 1957 Raja
Ahmad bin Raja Endut
(b. 1892 - d. 19..)
Feb 1957 - May 1957 Mohd
Razali bin Mohamed Ali Wasi
1 May 1957 - 28 May 1957 Mohamed Shamsuddin bin Mohamed
Ali
Yaakub (acting)
May 1957 - 31 Dec 1971 Tan Sri Sheikh Ahmad
bin Mohamed
Hashim
Jan 1972 - 22 Oct 1981 Datuk Jaafar bin
Hassan
1 Nov 1981 - Aug 1986 Datuk Ali bin
Ahmad
13 Aug 1986 - 6 May 1995 Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Pawanteh
MCA/BN
6 May 1995 - 17 Mar 2008 Shahidan Kassim (from 4 Dec 1995,
Dato' Seri Shahidan Kassim;
from
25 Oct 2002, Datuk Seri
Shahidan
Kassim)
(b. 1951)
UMNO/BN
17 Mar 2008 - Datuk (from 17 May 2008, Datuk
Seri) Mohammad Isa Sabu (b. 1947?) UMNO/BN
British Advisers
1909 - 1910
Meadows Frost (1st time)(acting) (b. 1875 - d. 1954)
1910
Cavendish (acting)
1910 - 1911
Meadows Frost (2nd time)(acting)
(s.a.)
1911
J.G. Richey
1911 - 1913
H.C. Eckhardt (1st time)
1913 - 1914
G.M. Laidlaw (acting)
1914 - 1920
H.C. Eckhardt (2nd time)
1920 - 1922
E.W.N. Wyatt (acting)
1922 - 1923
Thomas Watts Clayton
(b. 1877 - d. 19..)
1923 - 1925
John Whitehouse Ward Hughes (b.
1883 - d. 19..)
1925 - 1928
P.S. Williams
1928 - 1930
L.A. Allen
Dec 1930 - 1932
Mortimer Cecil Hay (b. 1891 - d. ....) 1932 - 1933
M.B. Shelley
1933 - 1935
Oswald Eric Venables
(b. 1891 - d. 1960)
1935 - 1937
Charles Roberts Howitt
(b. 1894 - d. 1969)
1937 - 1939
Christopher William Dawson
(b. 1896 - d. 1983)
1939 - 1941
Edward Victor Grace Day (1st time) (b. 1896 - d. 1968)
Japanese Governors
1941 - 1942 Ohyama Kikancho
1942 - 20 Aug 1943
Osagawa
Thai Officer
20 Aug 1943 - 8 Sep 1945 Charn Na Song Khram
British Resident Commissioners 1945 - 1946
D. Burr
1 Apr 1946 - 26 May 1946
Edward Victor Grace Day (2nd time) (s.a.)
1947 - 1948 A. Glencross (1st time)(acting)
1948 - 19..
Richard John Froude Curtis (b. 1897 - d. 19..) 1950
- 1951 Maurice John Hayward
(b. 1906) 1951 A. Glencross (2nd time)(acting)
1951 - 1955
Frank Marshall Smith
(b. 1912)
British Advisers
1956? W. Foulsham
1957? J. Hamer
¹Full style of the ruler: Raja dan Yang di-Pertuan
Negara Perlis Indra Kayangan ("Raja and Head of the State of Perlis").
Putrajaya
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Adopted 1 Feb 2001
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Adopted 26 May 2006 Federal Territory Flag
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1 Feb 2001
Federal Territory of Putarajaya created (from southern
district of Selangor).
Presidents of Putrajaya Corporation
1 Feb 2001 - 14 Jul 2004 Tan Sri Datuk Seri Azizan
Zainul (b. 1935 - d. 2004) UMNO/BN
Abidin
8 Aug 2004 -
Tan Sri Samsudin Osman
(b. 1947)
MCA/BN
Sabah
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26 Aug 1881 - 5 Jan 1882
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5 Jan 1882 - 3 Jan 1942; Aug 1945 - 13
Sep 1948
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State Ensign
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5 Jan 1882 - 3 Jan 1942; Aug 1945 - 13
Sep 1948
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Civil Ensign
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13 Sep 1948 - 31 Aug 1963
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31 Aug 1963 - 31 Dec 1982
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1 Jan 1982 - 16 Sep 1988
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Adopted 16 Sep 1988
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Capital: Kota Kinabalu
(Jesselton 1946-30 Sep 1967;
Sandakhan 1877-1881,
1883-1942, 1945-1946;
Elopura 1942-1945;
Kudat 1881-1883;
Boruneo Kita: Kuching 1942-43, Elopura 1943-1945)
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Hear
State Anthem
"Sabah Tanah Airku"
(Sabah, My Homeland)
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Text
of State Anthem
Adopted 19 Jul 1963
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Population: 3,355,337 (2008)
454,000 (1961)
Currency: British North Borneo Dollar (BNBD)
1885-1953
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Organizations/Treaties to 1963: IMO (associate), IOC, UPU |
1704
Sultan of Brunei cedes
the lands east of Marudu Bay to the
Sultanate of Sulu.
1763 - 5 Mar 1775
Sultan of Sulu cedes Balambangan Islands and the Sabah
peninsula to British East
India Company; Balambangan is
renamed Felicia Island.
1775 - 15 Jul 1946
Formally under the sovereignty of the Sultan of Sulu
(but from 1881 under British
rule [see Philippines]).
1803 - Nov 1805
Second British attempt to settle Balambangan.
Nov 1865 - 1866
Failed American Trading Company settlement named Ellena in
North Borneo near the mouth
of the Kimanis River.
26 Aug 1881
British North Borneo Charter Company rule.
12 May 1888
British protectorate (State of North Borneo)¹
18 Jan 1942 - 10 Sep 1945 Japanese occupation; part of Boruneo
Kita (North Borneo)
(Brunei, British North Borneo, Sarawak
and Labuan).
in May 1942 British Borneo
divided into 4 Shu (provinces/states)
- Seikai-shu (western North
Borneo); Kuching-shu (southern
Sarawak); Miri-shu (northern
Sarawak and Brunei); and
Tokai-shu (eastern North
Borneo); [Sibu-shu (central Sarawak)
Jul 1942 - Oct 1943?];
May - Jul 1942 Pontianak on the
west coast of Dutch Borneo
was also briefly a Shu.
10 Sep 1945 - 5 Jan 1946 Australian military
administration.
5 Jan 1946 - 15 Jul 1946 British military
administration.
15 Jul 1946
British crown colony (British North Borneo [incl. Labuan]).
31 Aug 1963 Self-government granted.
16 Sep 1963
Joins Federation of Malaysia.
Governors of Balambangan
1763 - 1775
Alexander Dalrymple
(b. 1737 - d. 1808)
1773 - 5 Mar 1775
John Herbert -Resident
1803 - Nov 1805
Robert Townsend Farquhar
(b. 1776 - d. 1830)
Govenors of Ellena
Nov 1865 - 1866
Thomas B. Harris
(b. 1826? - d. 1866)
+ Joseph W. Torrey
(b. 1828 - d. 1883)
(titled Rajah of Ambong
and Marudu)
Maharajah of Sabah and Rajah of Gaya and Sandakan
29 Dec 1877 - 26 Aug 1881 Alfred Dent
(b. 1842 - d. 19..)
Chairmen of the British North Borneo Provisional Association,
Ltd.
26 Aug 1881 - Apr/May 1882 Gustav Freiherr von Overbeck
(b. 1830 - d. 1894)
+ Alfred Dent
(s.a.)
+ Richard Charles Mayne
(b. 1835 - d. 1892)
+ William Henry McLeod
Read (b. 1819 - d. 1907) Chairmen of the British North Borneo Chartered Company
Apr/May 1882 - 1893 Sir
Rutherford Alcock
(b. 1809 - d. 1897)
1893 - 1903
Richard Biddulph Martin
(b. 1838 - d. 1916)
1903 - 1909
Sir Charles James Jessel
(b. 1860 - d. 1928)
1909 - 14 Sep 1910
William Clark Cowie
(b. 1849? - d. 1910)
Presidents of the British North Borneo Chartered Company
1910 - 1926
Sir Joseph West Ridgeway
(b. 1844 - d. 1930)
3 Feb 1926 - 15 Jul 1946 Sir Neill Malcolm
(b. 1869 - d. 1953)
Governors
26 Aug 1881 - 1887
William Hood Treacher
(b. 1849 - d. 1919)
1887 - 1888 William M. Crocker 1888 - 1895
Charles Vandelleur Creagh
(b. 1842 - d. 1917)
1895 - 1900
Leicester Paul Beaufort
(b. 1853 - d. 1926)
1900 - 1901
Hugh Charles Clifford
(b. 1866 - d. 1941)
1901 - 1903
Ernest Woodford Birch
(b. 1857 - d. 1929)
1904 - 1911
Edward Peregrine Gueritz
(b. 1855 - d. 1938)
1911 - 1912
Francis Robert Ellis
(b. 1849 - d. 1915)
1912 F.W. Fraser (1st time)(acting)
1912
James Scott Mason
(b. 1853 - d. 1912)
1912 - 1913 F.W. Fraser (2nd time)(acting)
1913 - 1915
Cecil William Chase Parr
(b. 1871 - d. 1943)
1915 - 1916 F.W. Fraser (3rd time)(acting)
1916 - 1922
Aylmer Cavendish Pearson (1st time)(b. 1876 - d. 1926)
1919 F.W. Fraser (acting for Pearson)
1922 - 1925
Sir William Henry Rycroft
(b. 1861 - d. 1925)
1925 - 1926
Aylmer Cavendish Pearson (2nd time)(s.a.)
Oct 1926 - 16 Dec 1929 John Lisseter Humphreys
(b. 1881 - d. 1929)
1930 - 1933
Arthur Frederick Richards
(b. 1885 - d. 1978)
1934 - 1937
Douglas James Jardine
(b. 1888 - d. 1946)
1937 - 18 Jan 1942
Charles Robert Smith (1st time) (b. 1887 - d. 1959)
(Japanese prisoner 18 Jan
1942 - Aug 1945)
Japanese Military Governors
1941 - 1942
Kiyotake Kawaguchi
(b. 1892 - d. 1961)
1942
Tsuda Yoshitake
11 Apr 1942 - 5 Sep 1942 Toshitame Maeda
(b. 1885 - d. 1942)
5 Sep 1942 - 26 Dec 1944 Masataka Yamawaki
(b. 1884 - d. 1974)
26 Dec 1944 - 10 Sep 1945 Masao Baba
(d. 1947)
Governors of Seikai-shu
1942
....
1942 - 1945
Kuji Manabu
1945
Kuroda Shigeru
Governor of Kuching-shu
194. - 1945
Sotojiro Tokuno
Governor of Miri-shu
194. - 1945
Kodama Roichi
Governors of Tokai-shu
1942 - 1945
....
Governor of Sibu-Shu
Jul 1943 - Oct? 1943 ....
Allied Military Governors
10 Sep 1945 - Jan 1946 Sir Thomas Charles
Eastick (b. 1900 - d. 1988)
(Australia)
Jan 1946 - 15 Jul 1946 Edward Cecil James
Woodford (U.K.) (b. 1901 - d. 1988)
Chief Civil Affairs Officer for Borneo
10 Sep 1945 - 30 May 1946 Charles Frederick Cunningham
(b. 1888 - d. 1969)
Macaskie (U.K.)
Governors
10 Sep 1945 - Nov 1946 Charles Robert Smith
(2nd time) (s.a.)
Nov 1946 - 1949
Edward Francis Twining
(b. 1899 - d. 1967)
1950 - 1954
Sir Herbert Ralph Hone
(b. 1896 - d. 1992)
4 Mar 1954 - 1959
Sir Ronald Evelyn Turnbull
(b. 1905 - d. 1960)
1959 - 1963
Sir William Allmond Codrington (b. 1907 - d. 1986)
Goode
Heads of State (title Yang di-Pertuan Negara; from 1976,
Yang di-Pertua Negeri)
16 Sep 1963 - 16 Sep 1965 Tun Mustapha Harun
(b. 1918 - d. 1995)
16 Sep 1965 - 16 Sep 1973 Datuk Pangeran Ahmad Rafai
(b. 1907)
16 Sep 1973 - 28 Jul 1975 Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens
(b. 1920 - d. 1976)
28 Jul 1975 - 12 Oct 1977 Datuk Mohamad Indan Kari
(b. 1921)
(from 197., Tun Mohd Hamdan)
12 Oct 1977 - 25 Jun 1978 Tun Ahmad Koroh
(b. 1925 - d. 1978)
27 Jun 1978 - 31 Dec 1986 Tun Datuk Mohamad Adnan Robert
(b. 1917 - d. 2003)
1 Jan 1987 - 31 Dec 1994 Tun Mohamad Said Keruak
(b. 1926 - d. 1995)
1 Jan 1995 - 31 Dec 2002 Tun Sakaran Dandai
(b. 1930)
1 Jan 2003 -
Datuk Ahmadshah Abdullah
(b. 1946)
Chief ministers (title Ketua Menteri)
16 Sep 1963 - 31 Dec 1964 Donald Stephens (1st time)
(s.a.)
UPKO
1 Jan 1965 - 12 May 1967 Peter Lo Su Yin
(b. 1923)
SCA
12 May 1967 - 1 Nov 1975 Tun Mustapha Harun (1st time)
(s.a.)
USNO
1 Nov 1975 - 18 Apr 1976 Tun Mohamad Said Keruak
(s.a.)
USNO
18 Apr 1976 - 6 Jun 1976 Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens (2nd
time) (s.a.)
BP
6 Jun 1976 - 22 Apr 1985 Datuk Harris Salleh
(b. 1933)
UMNO/BP
22 Apr 1985 (hours) Tun
Mustapha Harun (2nd time)
(s.a.)
USNO
22 Apr 1985 - 17 Mar 1994 Datuk (from 1986, Datuk Seri
(b. 1940)
PBS
Panglima) Joseph Pairin
Kitingan
17 Mar 1994 - 27 Dec 1994 Tun Sakaran Dandai
(s.a.)
UMNO/BN
27 Dec 1994 - 28 May 1996 Datuk (from 21 Mar 1996, Datuk
(b. 1957)
UMNO/BN
Seri) Salleh Said Keruak
28 May 1996 - 28 May 1998 Datuk Yong Teck Lee
(b. 1958)
SAPP/BN
28 May 1998 - 14 Mar 1999 Tan Sri Bernard Dompok
(b. 1949)
PDS
14 Mar 1999 - 27 Mar 2001 Datuk Seri Osu Sukam
(b. 1949)
UMNO/BN
27 Mar 2001 - 27 Mar 2003 Datuk Chong Kah Kiat
(b. 1948)
LDP/BN
7 Mar 2003 -
Datuk (from 11 Oct 2003, Datuk (b.
1951)
UMNO/BN
Seri) Musa Aman
(acting for Chong to 27
Mar 2003)
British Agents
12 May 1888 - 3 Jan 1942 the governors of the Straits
Settlements (see Singapore)
Territorial Dispute: Sabah was claimed by Spain to 1898,
and since 1946 by the Philippines.
¹Gustav Freiherr von Overbeck (s.a.) was appointed
Maharajah of Sabah and Rajah of Gaya and Sandakan by the Sultan of Brunei
29 Dec 1877 and Datu Bendahara and Rajah of Sandakan by the Sultan of Sulu
22 Jan 1878. In early 1881 Overbeck, Alfred Dent (s.a.), Richard Charles
Mayne, and William Henry McLeod Read established the British North Borneo
Provisional Association, Ltd. The British North Borneo Chartered Company
(charter dated 1 Nov 1881) became the entity which, under U.K. protection
and formal suzerainty of the Sultan of Sulu,
constituted the State of North Borneo. The governors were appointed (with
U.K. authorization) by the Chartered Company.
Sarawak
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9 May 1870 - 1 Jul 1946
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1 Jul 1946 - 16 Sep 1963
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16 Sep 1963 - 31 Aug 1973
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31
Aug 1973 - 31 Aug 1988
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Sarawak given to James Brooke by the Sultan of Brunei.
1853
Independence from Brunei.
19 Feb 1857 - 23 Feb 1857 Chinese revolt under Liu Shanbang
(d. 1857) occupies
of Kuching.
14 Jun 1888
British protectorate.
24 Dec 1941 - 10 Sep 1945 Japanese occupation, part of Boruneo
Kita; May 1942 Sarawak
divided into 2 Shu (provinces/states)- Kuching-shu (southern
Sarawak) and Miri-shu (northern
Sarawak and Brunei) and briefly
Sibu-shu (central Sarawak)
Jul 1942 - Oct? 1943 (see Sabah).
11 Sep 1945 - 15 Apr 1946 Australian military administration
(see under Sabah).
1 Jul 1946
British crown colony.
31 Aug 1963 Self-government granted.
16 Sep 1963
Joins Federation of Malaysia.
Governor
24 Sep 1841 - 18 Aug 1842 James Brooke
(b. 1803 - d. 1868)
Rajahs¹
18 Aug 1842 - 11 Jun 1868 James Brooke
(s.a.)
(from 27 Apr 1848, Sir
James Brooke)
11 Jun 1868 - 17 May 1917 Charles Johnson Brooke
(b. 1829 - d. 1917)
(from 2 Jun 1888, Sir Charles
Johnson Brooke)
1859 - 1863
John Brooke Johnson Brooke
(b. 1823 - d. 1868)
(acting for absent Rajah)
1863 - 1868
Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke (b. 1829 - d. 1917)
(acting for absent Rajah)
17 May 1917 - 1 Jul 1946 Charles Vyner Brooke
(b. 1879 - d. 1963)
(from 3 Jun 1927, Sir Charles
Vyner Brooke)
(in exile [Australia and
U.K.] 25 Dec 1941 - 14 Apr 1946)
1939 - 1940
Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke (b. 1912)
(acting for absent Rajah)
Governors
29 Oct 1946 - 1949
Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke (b. 1898 - d. 1962)
14 Nov 1949 - 10 Dec 1949 Duncan George Stewart
(b. 1904 - d. 1949)
10 Dec 1949 - 1950
Christopher William Dawson
(b. 1896 - d. 1983)
(acting)
4 Apr 1950 - 1959
Anthony Foster Abell
(b. 1906 - d. 1994)
(from 1 Jan 1952, Sir Anthony
Foster Abell)
23 Feb 1960 - 1963
Sir Alexander Nicol Anton Waddell (b. 1913 - d. 1999)
Heads of State (title Yang di-Pertua Negeri)
16 Sep 1963 - 2 Apr 1969 Tun Datuk Abang Openg bin
Abang
Sapie
(b. 1905)
2 Apr 1969 - 2 Apr 1977 Tun Bujang bin Tunku
Othman (b. 1898)
2 Apr 1977 - 2 Apr 1981 Tun Datuk Patinggi Abang
Mohamad
Salaheddin (1st time)
(b. 1921)
2 Apr 1981 - 2 Apr 1985 Datuk Seri Panglima (from
1982,
Tun) Abdul Rahman Yakub
(b. 1928)
2 Apr 1985 - 4 Dec 2000 Tun Datuk Patinggi Ahmad
Zaidi
Adruce bin Mohamad Noor
(b. 1924 - d. 2000)
4 Dec 2000 -
Tun Datuk Patinggi Abang Mohamad
Salaheddin (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting to 22 Feb 2001)
Chief minister
1843 - 1846
Thomas Williamson
(b. 1818/19 - d. 1846)
Resident
1863 - 1873
Arthur Chichester Crookshank (b. 1823/24
- d. 1891)
Chairmen of the Committee of Administration
1875 - 1880
William M. Crocker
1881 - 1895
Francis Richard Ord Maxwell
1896 - 1903
Charles Agar Bampfylde
(b. 1856 - d. 1918)
1903 - 1904
H.F. Deshon
1904 - 1909
Sir Percy F. Cunynghame (b. 1867 - d. 1947)
1909 - 1910
H.R.A. Day
1910 - 1915
Ivone Kirkpatrick Caldecott
1915 - 1923
Arthur Bartlett Ward
(b. 1879 - d. 19..)
Chief Secretaries (and Chairmen of the Committee of Administration)
1923 - 1926
John Coney Moulton
(b. 1886 - d. 1926)
1927 - 1928
H.B. Crocker
1928 - 1930
Charles Vyner Brooke (1st time)
(s.a.)
1930
F.F. Boult
1930
J.C. Swayne (1st time)(acting)
1930 - 1931
Charles Vyner Brooke (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1931 - 1932
J.C. Swayne (2nd time)(acting)
1932 - 1934
Charles Frederick Cunningham (b. 1888
- d. 1969)
Macaskie (government secretary)
1934 - 1937
Charles Vyner Brooke (3rd time)
(s.a.)
1937 - 1939
Edward Parnell
1939 - 1941
John Beville Archer (1st time) (b. 1893 - d. 1947)
May 1941 - 25 Dec 1941 Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark
(b. 1894 - d. 1945)
1941 - 1946 Vacant
1946
John Beville Archer (2nd
time) (s.a.)
1946 - 1950
Christopher William Dawson
(b. 1896 - d. 1983)
1950 - 1955
R.G. Aikman
(b. 1905)
1955 - 1958
J.H. Ellis
(b. 1909)
1958 - 1959
John Coleraine Hanbury Barcroft
(b. 1908 - d. 1958) 1959 - 1963
Francis Derek Jakeway
(b. 1915 - d. 1993)
Chief ministers (title Ketua Menteri)
22 Jul 1963 - 16 Jun 1966 Stephen Kalong Ningkan
(b. 1920 - d. 1997) SNAP
(from 1946, Datuk Stephen
Kalong Ningkan)
(1st time)
Jun 1966 - 7 Sep 1966 Datuk Penghulu
Tawi Sli (1st time) (b. 1912 - d. 19..)
7 Sep 1966 - 23 Sep 1966 Datuk Stephen Kalong Ningkan
(s.a.)
SNAP
(2nd time)
23 Sep 1966 - 7 Jul 1970 Datuk Penghulu Tawi Sli (2nd
time) (s.a.)
7 Jul 1970 - 26 Mar 1981 Datuk Seri Panglima Abdul
Rahman (s.a.)
PBB
Yakub
26 Mar 1981 -
Datuk Patinggi (from 1988, Datuk
Seri; from 1989, Tan Sri)
Abdul
Taib Mahmud
(b. 1936)
PBB
British Agents
14 Jun 1888 - 25 Dec 1941 the governors of the Straits
Settlements (see Singapore)
British Adviser
1940 - 25 Dec 1941
Walter Evelyn Pepys
(b. 1885 - d. 1966)
British Resident 1946
John Coleraine Hanbury Barcroft
(s.a.)
British Representative
1946 - 1 Jul 1946
Christopher William Dawson
(s.a.)
¹Full style of the ruler: Sri Paduka Duli
Yang Maha Mulia Rajah dan Yang di-Pertuan Negara Sarawak ("The Rajah
of Sarawak").
Selangor
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1859 - 30 Jan 1965
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Adopted 30 Jan 1965
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Capital: Shah Alam (Kuala Lumpur 1880-1974; Klang 1743-1880, 1974-1977)
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Hear
State Anthem "Duli Yang Maha Mulia" Adopted 1967
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Former
State Anthem "Allah Selamatkan" (1908-1967)
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Population: 6,151,536 (2008)
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1743
Negeri Selangor Darul Ehsan established.
8 Jan 1758 - 1766
Under sovereignty of Johor.
13 Aug 1784 - 29 Jul 1786 Dutch occupation.
Oct 1874
British protectorate.
1 Jul 1896
Part of Federated Malay States.
11 Jan 1942 - 12 Sep 1945 Occupied by Japan (Malay Federation).
1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Raja
1743 - 1766
Raja Lumu bin Daing Celak
(b. c.1705 - d. 1778)
Sultans¹
1766 - 1778
Tuanku Salehuddin Shah ibni
al-Marhum Yamtuan Muda
Daing Celak (Raja Lumu)
(s.a.)
1778 - 27 Oct 1826
Tuanku Ibrahim Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Salehuddin
Shah (b. c.1736 - d. 1826)
(13 Aug 1784 - 29 Jul 1786
in Pahang exile)
13 Jul 1784 - 8 Apr 1785 Saiyid Ali bin Uthman Abdul (b.
17.. - d. 1821)
Jalil Saifuddin -Regent
8 Apr 1785 - 1786 Saiyid Abdul Rahman -Governor
27 Oct 1826 - 6 Jan 1857 Tuanku Muhammad Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Ibrahim
Shah (b. 1772 - d. 1857)
6 Jan 1857 - 6 Feb 1898 Tuanku Abdus Samad ibni
al-Marhum
Raja Abdullah
(b. 1804 - d. 1898)
6 Jan 1857 - 1859
Raja Mahmud ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Muhammad Shah -Regent (b. 1849 -
d. 1919)
6 Feb 1898 - 31 Mar 1938 Tuanku Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah
ibni
al-Marhum Raja Muda Musa
(b. 1863 - d. 1938)
4 Apr 1938 - 15 Feb 1942 Tuanku Hisamuddin Alam Shah
ibni al-Marhum Sultan Alaeddin
Sulaiman Shah (1st time)
(b. 1898 - d. 1960)
15 Feb 1942 - 14 Sep 1945 Tuanku Musa Ghiathuddin Riayat
Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah
(b. 1893 - d. 1955)
14 Sep 1945 - 1 Sep 1960 Tuanku Hisamuddin Alam Shah
ibni al-Marhum Sultan Alaeddin
Sulaiman Shah (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1 Apr 1960 - 1 Sep 1960 Tengku Salahuddin Shah
-Regent (b. 1926 - d. 2001)
1 Sep 1960 - 21 Nov 2001 Tuanku Salehuddin Abdul Aziz
Shah
ibni al-Marhum Hisamuddin
Alam
Shah
(s.a.)
26 Apr 1999 - 21 Nov 2001 Tengku Idris Shah -Regent
(b. 1945)
22 Nov 2001 -
Sharafuddin Idris Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Salehuddin
Abdul
Aziz Shah
(s.a.)
Chief ministers (title Menteri Besar)
Jun 1947 - Jul 1949 Datuk
Hamzah bin Abdullah
Jul 1949 - Mar 1953 Raja
Tun Uda Al-Haj bin Raja (b. 1894 -
d. 1976)
Muhammed (1st time)
Mar 1953 - Sep 1954 Datuk
Othman Mohamed
Sep 1954 - Aug 1955 Raja
Sir Tun Uda Al-Haj bin Raja (s.a.)
Muhammed (2nd time)
Aug 1955 - Jul 1957 Tan
Sri Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Majid
Jul 1957 - May 1959 Tan
Sri Abdul Jamil bin Abdul Rais (b. 1912 - d. ....)
30 May 1959 - 19 Mar 1964 Datuk Abu Bakar Baginda
19 Mar 1964 - 15 Apr 1976 Dato' Harun Idris
(b. 1925 - d. 2003)
UMNO
15 Apr 1976 - 3 May 1982 Datuk Hormat Rafei
(b. 1923 - d. 2001)
3 May 1982 - 14 Aug 1986 Dato' Ahmad Razali Mohd Ali
(b. 1928 - d. 2001)
14 Aug 1986 - 14 Apr 1997 Muhammad Muhammad Taib
(b. 1945)
UMNO/BN
(from 8 MAr 1987, Datuk
Muhammad
Muhammad Taib; from 7 Jun
1989,
Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad
Taib)
2 May 1997 - 18 Aug 2000 Datuk Seri Abu Hassan Omar
(b. 1940)
UMNO/BN
18 Aug 2000 - 13 Mar 2008 Mohamad Khir Toyo
(b. 1965)
UMNO/BN
(from 14 Sep 2000, Datuk
Mohamad
Khir Toyo; from 10 Mar
2001, Datuk
Seri Mohamad Khir Toyo)
13 Mar 2008 - Tan Sri Khalid
Ibrahim (b. 1946)
PKR
British Residents
20 Jan 1875 - 1 Nov 1875 James Guthrie Davidson
20 Nov 1875 - 1 Oct 1882 Bloomfield Douglas
(b. 1822 - d. 1906)
2 Oct 1882 - 31 May 1889 Frank
Athelstane Swettenham (b. 1850
- d. 1946)
8 Feb 1884 - 8 Jan 1888
John Pickersgill Rodger (1st time) (b. 1851 - d. 1910)
(acting for Swettenham)
1 Jun 1889 - 16 Mar 1892 William Edward Maxwell
(b. 1846 - d. 1897)
3 Apr 1892 - 9 May 1892 F.G. Penney (acting for Maxwell)
17 Mar 1892 - 30 Jun 1896 William Hood Treacher
(b. 1849 - d. 1919)
9 May 1892 - 10 Jan 1893 E.W. Birch (acting for Treacher)
Jul 1896 - 12 Dec 1901
John Pickersgill Rodger (2nd time) (s.a.)
5 Apr 1897 - 4 Jul 1897 Henry Conway Belfield (1st time)
(b. 1855 - d. 1923)
(acting for Rodger)
4 Oct 1897 - 21 Apr 1898 Henry Conway Belfield (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting for Rodger)
5 Apr 1899 - 28 Sep 1899 Henry Conway Belfield (3rd time)
(s.a.)
(acting for Rodger)
29 Sep 1899 - 2 Jan 1900 R.S.F. Walker (acting for Rodger)
3 Jan 1900 - 23 Sep 1901 Henry Conway Belfield (4th time)
(s.a.)
(acting for Rodger)
1 Oct 1901 - 24 Oct 1901 Hugh Clifford (acting for Rodger)
24 Oct 1901 - 18 Jun 1902 E.M. Merewether
(acting for Rodger 12 Dec 1901)
19 Jun 1902 - 18 Aug 1902 A.R. Venning (acting)
18 Aug 1902 - 5 Mar 1911 Henry Conway Belfield (5th time) (s.a.)
18 Jan 1911 - 15 Aug 1911 J.O. Anthonisz (acting for Belfield)
4 Nov 1903 - 17 Feb 1905 D.G. Campbell (1st time)
(acting for Belfield)
10 Nov 1906 - 15 Feb 1907 D.G. Campbell (2nd time)
(acting for Belfield)
23 Oct 1908 - 29 Jan 1909 D.G. Campbell (3rd time)
(acting for Belfield)
6
Mar 1911 - 8 Aug 1913 Reginald George Watson
(b. 1862 - d. 1926)
(acting to 9 Aug 1912)
9 Aug 1912 - 1 Jul 1919 Edward George Broadrick
(b. 1864 - d. 1929)
8 Aug 1913 - 20 Aug 1914 E. Burnside (acting for Broadrick)
7 Jun 1917 - 28 Dec 1917 J.R.O. Aldworth
(acting for Broadrick)
1 Jul 1919 - 12 Feb 1920 Arthur Henry Lemon
(b. 1864 - d. 1933)
(acting to 3 Sep 1919)
13 Feb 1920 - 12 Dec 1921 Oliver Marks (acting to 13 Feb 1921)
13 Sep 1921 - 2 Nov 1921 E.S. Hose (acting for Marks)
13 Dec 1921 - 1926
Oswald Francis Gerard Stonor (b. 1872
- d. 1940)
25 Oct 1923 - 26 Mar 1924 R. Scott (acting for Stonor)
27 Mar 1924 - 9 Apr 1924 H.S. Sircom (acting for Stonor)
1926 - 1927
Henry Wagstaffe Thomson
(b. 1874 - d. 1941)
1927 - 1931
James Lornie
(b. 1876 - d. 1959)
Jul 1932 - 1933
Geoffrey Edmund Cator (b. 1884 - d. 1973) 1933 - 1935
George Ernest London
(b. 1889 - d. 1957)
1935 - 1937
Theodore Samuel Adams
(b. 1885 - d. 1961)
Apr 1937 - 1939
Stanley Wilson Jones
(b. 1888 - d. 1962)
1939 - 1941
George Montgomery Kidd (b. 1889 - d. 19..)
1941
Norman Rowlstone Jarrett
(acting) (b. 1889 - d. 1982)
Japanese Governor
1942 - 1945
Shotaro Katayama (b. 1889 - d. 1982)
British Resident Commissioners 1945 - 1946
....
1 Apr 1946 - 1947 George Evans Cameron Wisdom
(b. 1899 - d. 1958)
1947 - Feb 1949 Arthur
Louis Birse (b. 1893
- d. 19..) Feb 1949 - 1950 Richard John Froude Curtis (b. 1897 - d. 19..)
1950 - Oct 1952
A.N. Ross
(b. 1905)
Oct 1952 - 1954
Harold George Hammett (b. 1906
- d. 1999)
1954 - 1955 Frederick Victor Duckworth (b. 1901)
Nov 1954 - Mar? 1955 G.S. Rawlings
(b. 1904)
(acting for Duckworth)
British Adviser
1955 - Jun 1956 Frederick Victor Duckworth (s.a.)
Jun 1956 Post abolished
¹Full style of the ruler: Duli Yang Maha
Mulia Sultan dan Yang di-Pertuan Negara Selangor Darul Ihsan ("Sultan
and Yang di-Pertuan of the State of Selangor").
Terengganu
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1912 - 1933
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1933 - 1947
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Adopted 1947
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1512
Part of Johor.
1725
Negeri Terengganu Darul Iman established.
c.1781 - 9 Jul 1909 Terengganu
under Thai sovereignty.
9 Jul 1909
British protectorate (an unfederated Malay state).
11 Dec 1941 - 20 Aug 1943 Occupied by Japan.
20 Aug 1943 - 8 Sep 1945 Annexed by Thailand.
1 Apr 1946
Joins Malay Union (from 16 Sep 1963, Malaysia).
Sultans¹
1725 - 7 Mar 1733
Tuanku Zainal Abidin I ibni
al-Marhum Bendahara Seri
Maharaja Tun Habib Abdul
Majid (b. 1678 - d. 1733)
7 Mar 1733 - 26 Jan 1793 Tuanku Mansur Shah I ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Zainal
Abidin (b. 1715 - d. 1793)
7 Mar 1733 - 26 Feb 1741 Engku Tanang Wangsa -Regent
26 Jan 1793 - 23 Oct 1808 Tuanku Zainal Abidin II ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Mansur
Shah (b. 1744
- d. 1808)
23 Oct 1808 - 4 Jul 1830 Tuanku Ahmad Shah I ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Zainal
Abidin (d. 1830)
1826 - 4 Jul 1830
Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Zainal Abidin -Regent (d. 1831)
4 Jul 1830 - 31 Jan 1831 Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Zainal Abidin
(s.a.)
31 Jan 1831 - 1831
Tuanku Umar ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Abdul Rahman (1st
time) (b. 1806 - d. 1876)
- jointly with the following -
31 Jan 1831 - 8 Mar 1837 Tuanku Mansur Shah II ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Zainal
Abidin (d. 1837)
8 Mar 1837 - 4 Nov 1839 Tuanku Muhammad Shah
I ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Mansur
Shah (b. 1821
- d. 1840)
4 Nov 1839 - 11 Apr 1876 Tuanku Umar ibni al-Marhum
Sultan Abdul Rahman (2nd
time) (s.a.)
11 Apr 1876 - 1876
Tuanku Mahmud Shah ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Abdul
Rahman
1876 - 18 Dec 1881
Tuanku Ahmad Muadzam Shah II ibni
al-Marhum Yang Dipertuan
(b. 1839 - d. 1881)
Muda Mahmud
18 Dec 1881 - 25 Nov 1918 Tuanku Zainal Abidin III Muadzam
Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Ahmad Muadzam Shah
(b. 1866 - d. 1918)
25 Nov 1918 - 20 May 1920 Tuanku Muhammad Shah II ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Zainal
Abidin (b. 1888 - d. 1956)
Muadzam Shah
20 May 1920 - 25 Sep 1942 Tuanku Sulaiman Badarul Alam Shah
ibni al-Marhum Sultan Zainal
Abidin Muadzam Shah
(b. 1895 - d. 1942)
25 Sep 1942 - 20 Aug 1943 Tuanku Ali ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Sulaiman Badarul Alam Shah
(b. 1914 - d. 1996)
(1st time)
8 Sep 1945 - 5 Nov 1945 Tuanku Ali ibni al-Marhum
Sultan
Sulaiman Badarul Alam Shah
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
(arrested by British forces
29 Sep 1945)
5 Nov 1945 - 20 Sep 1979 Tuanku Ismail Nasiruddin Shah
ibni al-Marhum Sultan Zainal
Abidin Muadzam Shah
(b. 1907 - d. 1979)
21 Aug 1965 - 20 Sep 1970 Tengku Mahmud -Regent
(b. 1930 - d. 1998)
20 Sep 1979 - 14 May 1998 Tuanku Mahmud al-Muktafi Billah
(s.a.)
Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan
Ismail
Nasiruddin Shah
15 May 1998 -
Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin ibni
al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud
(b. 1962)
13 Dec 2006 -
Tengku Muhammad Ismail -Regent (b. 1998)
Chief ministers (title Menteri Besar)
1878 - 1886
Sayyid Abdullah bin Sayyid Muhammad
Zain al-Idrus
1886 - 21 Apr 1925
....
21 Apr 1925 - 28 Jun 1940 Dato' Seri Amar Diraja Ngah
Muhamad bin Yusof
15 Jul 1940 - 6 May 1942 Tengku Seri Setia Raja Tengku
Omar
bin Othman
17 May 1942 - 16 Dec 1945 Dato' Jaya Perkasa Da Omar bin
Mahmud
17 Dec 1945 - 26 Dec 1949 Tengku Panglima Perang Tengku
Muhamad bin al-Marhum Sultan
Ahmad
27 Dec 1949 - Jun 1959 Dato' Perdana Menteri
Di Raja
Dato' Seri Setia Raja Kamaruddin
bin Idris
Jun 1959 - 8 Nov 1961 Mohd Daud bin
Abdul Samad
9 Nov 1961 - 3 Sep 1970 Tan Sri Ibrahim Fikri
bin Mohammad
1 Oct 1970 - 4 Sep 1971 Dato' Mahmood bin Sulaiman
5 Sep 1971 - 3 Aug 1974 Dato' Nik Hassan bin
Wan Abdul
Rahman
1 Sep 1974 - 2 Dec 1999 Wan Mokhtar Ahmad (from
7 Jul
1982, Datuk Amar Wan Mokhtar
Ahmad; from 8 Apr 1983,
Datuk
Wan Mokhtar Ahmad; from
26 Nov
1988, Tan Sri Wan Mokhtar
Ahmad) (b. 1932)
BN
2 Dec 1999 - 25 Mar 2004 Abdul Hadi Awang
(b. 1947)
PAS
(from 19 Jul 2001, Dato'
Seri Abdul Hadi Awang)
25 Mar 2004 - 25 Mar 2008 Datuk (from 20 Jul 2004, Dato'
Seri) Idris Jusoh
(b. 1955)
UMNO/BN
25 Mar 2008 -
Datuk Ahmad Said
(b. 1957) UMNO
British Agents
1904 - 1909
....
1909 - 1913
William Lance Conlay
(b. 1869 - d. 1927)
1913 - 1915
Walter D. Scott
1915 - 1916
C.N. Maxwell
1916 - 1919
John Lisseter Humphreys
(b. 1881 - d. 1929)
Advisers
1919 - 1925
John Lisseter Humphreys
(s.a.)
Nov 1919 - Jan 1920 Walter
Evelyn Pepys
(b. 1885 - d. 1966)
(acting for Humphreys)
Feb 1919 - May 1920 H.C.
Eckhardt
(acting for Humphreys)
1925 - 1926
James William Simmons
(b. 1877 - d. 19..)
1926 - 1928
William Miles Millington
(b. 1883 - d. 19..)
1928 - 1931
Alfred John Sturrock
(b. 1879 - d. 19..)
Mar 1931 - 1932
Gordon Lupton Ham
(b. 1885 - d. 1965)
1932 - 1934 Charles Cuthbert Brown (b. 1888 - d. 19..)
1934 - 1935
Norman Rowlstone Jarrett
(b. 1889 - d. 1982)
(1st time) (acting)
1935 - 1936
J.E. Kepme
Dec 1936 - 1937
Norman Rowlstone Jarrett
(b. 1889 - d. 1982)
(2nd time) (acting)
1937
Patrick Alexander Bruce
McKerron (b. 1896 - d. 1964)
(acting)
1937 - 1941
Norman Rowlstone Jarrett
(s.a.)
(3rd time)
Dec 1937 - 1940
Arthur Egerton Coope (b. 1888 - d. 19..)
1940 - 1941
George Alexander de Chazal de (b. 1888 -
d. 1976)
Moubray (acting to ...
1941)
Japanese Governors
1941 - 18 Mar 1942
....
18 Mar 1942 - 194.
Manabu Kuji
Thai Officer
20 Aug 1943 - Aug 1945 Prayoon Ratanakit
British Resident Commissioners
Aug 1945 - 1946
Derek Headly (b. 1908)
(acting to 1 Apr 1946) 1946 - 1948
John Graham Black
(b. 1896 - d. 19..) 1949? - 1951 I.W. Blelloch (acting)
(b. 1901)
1952 - May 1954 Maurice John Hayward (b. 1906)
May 1954 - 1955
J.F. Hannyngton
(b. 1906)
British Adviser 1955 - Jan 1957
J.F. Hannyngton
(s.a.)
1955 - Feb 1956
Frank Marshall Smith (b.
1912)
(acting for Hannyngton)
¹Full style of the ruler: Duli Yang Maha
Mulia Sultan dan Yang di-Pertuan Besar Terengganu Darul Iman ("Sultan
and Head of the State of Trengganu").
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