Swettenham, Sir, Frank Athelstane, 1850-1946, Knight and colonial administrator

Gender:

Male

Active Dates:

1850 - 1946

Active Area:

Asia (continent)
Malaysia (nation)
West Malaysia (division (national))
Kuala Lumpur (federal territory)
Kuala Lumpur (inhabited place)
Kelantan (state)

Likenesses:

See RCS BAM 3/43-44, 46; RCS BAM 4/26-29; RCS BAM 6/26; RCS BAM 7/18-19; RCS BAM 9/5, RCS Y3031C/2 and RCS Y3031C/13.

Photographs:

See list of photographs

Publications:

Burns, P.L., and Cowan, C.D. ed. (1975), 'Sir Frank Swettenham's Malayan journals 1874-1876', Kuala Lumpur, London: Oxford University Press.
Clifford, Hugh Charles, and Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1894), 'A dictionary of the Malay language', Taiping, Perak: Printed for the author's at the Government's printing office.
Cowan, C.D. ed. (1952), 'Sir Frank Swettenham's Perak journals 1874-1876', 'Journal of the Malayan branch of the Royal Asiatic Society', vol.24, part 4. Singapore: Malaya Publishing House.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1881), 'Vocabulary of the English and Malay languages'. Singapore: printed at the Government Printing Office.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1893), 'About Perak'. Singapore: Straits Times Press.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1895), 'Malay sketches'. London: John Lane.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1898), 'Unaddressed letters'. London: John Lane.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1899), 'The real Malay'. London: John Lane.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1907), 'British Malaya'. London: John Lane.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1910), 'Report of the Mauritius royal commission, 1909'. HMSO.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1912), 'Also and perhaps'. London: John Lane.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1925), 'Arabella in Africa'. London: John Lane.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1942), 'Footprints in Malaya'. London: Hutchinson.
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1946 ?), 'The future of Malaya'. [S.l.]: [s.n.]
Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1967), 'Stories and sketches'. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

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Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham was an amateur photographer. He was born in Derbyshire in 1850. He was Deputy Commissioner with the Perak Expedition from 1875-6; British Resident of Selangor in 1882, of Perak from 1889-95; Resident-General of the Federated Malay States (now Malaysia) 1896-1901; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements 1901-4. Swettenham chaired the royal commission to enquire into the affairs of Mauritius in 1909 and was joint director of the Official Press Bureau from 1915-9. He died in 1946.

Sources:

Typescript copy of 'Index to Photographers'.

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