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Francis Light (c. 1740 – 21 October 1794) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for founding the colony of Penang and its capital city of George Town in 1786. Light was the father of William Light , who founded the city of Adelaide in South Australia in 1836.
The Francis Light statue is a memorial to Captain Francis Light (1740–1794), the founder of the British colony of Penang in 1786. It is situated in the grounds of Fort Cornwallis , George Town , Penang, Malaysia.
The Suffolk House refers to two early residences built on the same site located some four miles west of George Town, Penang, Malaysia.Located on the banks of the Air Itam ("Black Water") River, the earliest of the two buildings is notable for having served as the residence of Francis Light, the founder of the first British settlement on Penang.
The Francis Light Memorial is a memorial about Francis Light in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The memorial, located underneath the dome, reads: "In memory of Francis Light ESQ who first established this island as an English settlement and was many years governor. Born in the county of Suffolk in England and died October 21st, 1794. In his ...
In this 1799 map of George Town by Sir Home Riggs Popham, the Old Protestant Cemetery is named the "Burying Ground", seen in the upper left (west) part of the map. Northam Road Cemetery was the first cemetery to be consecrated after Captain Francis Light founded the Prince of Wales Island Settlement in 1786.
After the Roman Catholic Bishop Garnault, who was brought by Francis Light to Penang in 1786 from Kuala Kedah after fleeing persecution in Ligor and Phuket. His presbytery stood here. 順德公司街 Sūn-tek kong-si-ke: Soon Teik Association street King St - Penang St: 呂宋禮拜堂前 Lū-sòng lé-pài-tn̂g-tsêng
In 1786, Sir Francis Light took over Penang from the sultan of Kedah. Finally in 1809, the College General in Penang was opened again and seminarians from all over Asia came to be trained there. In 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles took residence in Singapore.
Light Street is the oldest road in the city of George Town within the Malaysian state of Penang.It was named after the founder of Penang, Captain Francis Light. [1] As the epicentre of George Town, the street was created soon after Light established the settlement in 1786 and has been serving as a major thoroughfare within the city centre ever since.