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Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak KCB (29 April 1803 [3] – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from 1841 until his death in 1868.
The Raj of Sarawak, Kingdom of Sarawak or State of Sarawak, was a kingdom founded in 1841 in northwestern Borneo and was in a treaty of protection with the United Kingdom from 1888. It was formed from a series of land concessions acquired by the Englishman James Brooke from the Sultan of Brunei .
James of Sarawak (James Brooke) (1841–1868) 29 April 1803, India: 11 June 1868, England: Unmarried, but acknowledged an illegitimate son: Granted Sarawak and the title Rajah by the sultan of Brunei: Charles of Sarawak (Charles Johnson/Brooke) (1868–1917) 3 June 1829, England: 17 May 1917, England: Dayang Mastiah, one son, Esca
The Brooke family is an English family that ruled the Raj of Sarawak, from 1841 until 1 July, 1946, when Charles Vyner Brooke, the third and last "White Rajah" ceded Sarawak to the British Empire [1] due to the lack of resources to finance reconstruction after World War II.
In 1839, James Brooke, a British explorer, first arrived in Sarawak. Sarawak was later governed by the Brooke family between 1841 and 1946. During World War II, it was occupied by the Japanese for three years. After the war, the last White Rajah, Charles Vyner Brooke, ceded Sarawak to Britain, and in 1946 it became a British Crown Colony.
In 1865, James named Charles as his successor. Brooke married Margaret Alice Lili de Windt at Highworth, Wiltshire, on 28 October 1869; she was raised to the title of Ranee of Sarawak with the style of Her Highness on the same day. They had six children, three of whom survived infancy: Dayang Ghita Brooke (1870–1873) James Harry Brooke (1872 ...
The Royalist was a 142-ton topsail schooner.She was probably built in Cowes in 1834 as a gentleman's yacht for Rev T.L. Lane. James Brooke, at that point a former British soldier who would become in 1841 the first "White Rajah" of Sarawak, purchased her in 1836 with money he had inherited from his father.
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