Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The old school building was turned into Hutchings School; today, this particular building houses the Penang State Museum. In 1958, the then Prime Minister of Malaya and an alumnus of Penang Free School, Tunku Abdul Rahman, opened the school's Form 6 block, making it the first school in northern Malaya to offer secondary education up to Form 6 ...
The Penang State Museum houses artifacts and cultural exhibits. The present building, which was formerly the Penang Free School, is actually half a building, the other half of the building having been destroyed by aerial bombing during World War II. [citation needed] A bronze cast of Captain Francis Light, used to stand outside the museum building.
The museum building used to house the Penang Free School in 1821–1927. After Penang Free School moved to a new building in Green Lane, the Hutchings School took over the building in January 1928 and used it until 1960. The museum was opened by Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Penang Raja Uda Raja Muhammad on 14 April 1965. [1]
Robert Sparke Hutchings (11 April 1781 – 20 April 1827) was an English clergyman who initiated the founding in 1816 of Penang Free School, one of the oldest English-medium schools in Southeast Asia, [2] [a] in Penang in present-day Malaysia.
Penang Free School, the first English-medium school in Southeast Asia. Penang boasts of a good system of education stretching back to the early days of the British administration. Many of the public schools in Penang are among the oldest in the country and even in the region as a whole. Most notable of these are: Penang Free School, the oldest ...
First English medium school in Southeast Asia - Penang Free School ( Malaysia, 1816) [3] [4] First Asian and Southeast Asian to be admitted to Harvard University - Fe del Mundo ( Philippines, 1936) [5] [6]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... St. George's Girls' School (Penang, Malaysia) Hutchings ... Penang Free School; Malacca High School ...
Harold Ambrose Robinson Cheeseman (1890 – 23 November 1961) was an English educator who was founder of the Scouting movement in the Malaysian state of Penang, at the Penang Free School on 27 March 1915, and in the state of Johor at the English College Johore Bahru in 1928. [1]