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This is a list of schools in Sarawak, Malaysia. It is categorised according to the variants of schools in Malaysia , and is arranged alphabetically. Private (Chinese) High Schools
Graves of the White Rajahs at St Leonard's Church, Sheepstor, Devon, England. James and Charles had short grammar school educations, Vyner went to public schools and Cambridge University (but without taking degrees). All of them died in England and are buried at Sheepstor parish church, Devon. Anthony Brooke had his ashes interred at Sheepstor ...
The ones she wrote to Charley McDougall were the basis for her 1854 book Letters from Sarawak: Addressed to a Child. She had periods of home leave but basically they were in Sarawak for twenty years. They created an orphanage and schools and in return they received criticism from the White Rajah and his secretary.
Since its foundation in 1885, the school has been entrusted under her patronage and protection, and therefore it is expected that the students of St. Teresa's School emulate and uphold her qualities and virtues. [2] St. Teresa's School in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, had its beginnings in a small shop, at 149 Yorkshire Street, Rockdale, in England.
SMK DPHA Gapor was established by Sarawak State Education Department in 1974. The first principal of the school was Encik Haji Abdul Rahman bin Sahari. At that time, there were only 182 students studying in the school and a fraction of them were staying in the school's dormitories. There were only four teachers teaching in the school.
The Astana, [5] then called Government House, was built in 1870 by the second White Rajah, Charles Brooke, as a wedding gift to his wife, Margaret Alice Lili de Windt. [1] [2] [4] The couple married at Highworth, Wiltshire on 28 October 1869 and she was then raised to the title of Ranee of Sarawak with the style of Her Highness.
Blue plaque on Vyner's former house in Albion Street, London. Vyner returned to Sarawak on 15 April 1946 and temporarily resumed power as Rajah, until 1 July 1946 when he ceded Sarawak to the British government as a Crown colony , thus ending White Rajah rule in Sarawak.
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.