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		Swettenham's (1920) history was not only a nostalgic outpouring for a retired colonialist, it betrayed his egocentric nature in trying to establish his role in the making of British Malaya.
		Swettenham (1967:207) summed up best their sentiments when he stated categorically that "(t)he more complex the character, the more difficult it is to discover in all its workings, the more absorbing the study".
		Swettenham's (1920:169) fascination with Malay lay in the fact that Malays drew ideas, metaphors and injunctions from common things in everyday life to "season their conversation".
	www.fas.nus.edu.sg /staff/home/geokongl/doc/aprofile.doc (6620 words)

	Anwar Ibrahim: Launching of a Biography of Frank Swettenham
		One may well ask why would a biography of Frank Swettenham be of interest to me, one who has been closely associated with the nationalist movement.
		The colonial administrators, Swettenham I think one of them, always viewed the tropical weather, its heat and humidity, as some form of punishment, and regarded it as the prime cause of the laziness of the natives.
		Now, with regard to Swettenham, whatever maybe one's opinion of him, he is undoubtedly an important figure our of colonial history, having played a major role in the history of British intervention in the Malay Peninsula in the last quarter of the 19th century.
	ikdasar.tripod.com /anwar/95-18.htm (689 words)

	Sir Frank Swettenham -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1871 Swettenham was sent to Singapore as a cadet in the civil service of the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Malacca, and Penang Island).
		U.S. astronaut Frank Borman was born in Gary, Ind., in 1928.
		U.S. Army Air Corps combat pilot Frank Luke, known as the “Arizona balloon-buster,” in 1919 posthumously received the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. military decoration, for bravery in World War I. He was the second-ranked ace of the war, after Eddie Rickenbacker.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9070640 (702 words)

	MCG NEWS
		Sir Frank Swettenham was an important part of the history of Malaysia and much of his legacy helped to forge the Malaysia we live in today.
		Sir Frank Swettenham achieved his career ambitions and has gone down in history as a man who was highly influential in shaping British policy and the structure of British administration in the Malay Peninsula.
		Frank Swettenham was advised by sources he respected that marriage to the right woman was an important step to success in his career so, during a rather short leave in England he quickly made his choice.
	www.malaysianculturegroup.com /oldnewsl/ndec04.htm (6712 words)

	Entry
		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.
		Swettenham, Frank Athelstane (1881), 'Vocabulary of the English and Malay languages'.
		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.
	www.lib.cam.ac.uk /rcs_photographers/entry.php?id=439 (190 words)

	Janus: Lady Swettenham collection (Malaya and Jamaica) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The collection was formerly the property of Lady Swettenham who lived in the Empress Hotel, Victoria for ten years preceding her death in January 1953; her photographs were placed in the Archives but as they had no relevance to British Columbia were offered to the RCS.
		Sir Frank Swettenham (1850-1946) was advised by his elder brother Alexander to apply for a cadetship of the Straits Settlements.
		Taylor was a contemporary of Sir Alexander Swettenhams in Cyprus and Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements 1902-1904, Resident General of Federated Malay States 1905-1910.
	janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0115/Y3031C (890 words)

	Port Klang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2004, it was the 13th largest container port in the world.
		Port Klang was originally known as Port Swettenham when it was founded under British colonial rule in 1893, after the then British Resident, Sir Frank Swettenham.
		The Port Klang Authority, established 1 July 1963, administer the three ports in the Port Klang area: North Port Malaysia, South Port and West Port.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Klang (262 words)

	Swettenham, Frank History Summary
		Born outside Belper in Derbyshire, England, Frank Athelstane Swettenham was one of the most outstanding British colonial administrators of the Malay States and was instrumental in creating the political entity of British Malaya.
		At age twenty-four, Swettenham participated in the drafting of the historic Pangkor Treaty and witnessed its signing in 1874, which introduced British colonial rule in the peninsular Malay States through the British Residential System.
		Swettenham was a prime initiator of a federated scheme aimed at centralizing the disparate political entities of the Malay Peninsula to hasten economic development.
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/swettenham-frank-ema-05 (359 words)

	kiat.net: Kuala Lumpur - History
		Frank Swettenham, the Resident of Selangor, chose KL as his administrative center and oversaw the rebirth of the city, ordering the construction of new buildings using brick.
		He initiated construction on the Klang-Kuala Lumpur Railway and encouraged the use of brick and tile in buildings as a fire precaution and as an aid to better health.
		In 1896, Swettenham united the Sultans of four states under the umbrella of the Federated Malay States (FMS), and KL was chosen as the capital because of its central position.
	www.kiat.net /malaysia/KL/history.html (813 words)

	Malayan history to 1963 - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Malayan history to 1963
		In the development of the residential system the diplomacy and skills of such men as Hugh Low in Perak and Frank Swettenham in Selangor and Perak Perak (and later as the first resident general) did much to establish firm administration and to reconcile the Malay ruling class to the new regime.
		Both the Federated Malay States and the states of Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, Terengganu, and Johore, which remained outside the federation, continued under a separate form of administration from the Straits Settlements and were never declared British territory.
		Their attitude was supported by a group of retired Malayan civil servants in England, including Frank Swettenham, and the scheme for a Malayan Union was abandoned.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Malayan+history+to+1963 (3652 words)

	Sir Frank Swettenham
		Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham (1850-1946) was the first Resident General of the Federated Malay States (part of the then Royal Colonies, now independent Malaysia) which was formed by combining a number of kingdoms.
		For Swettenham's personal collection, John would paint a three-quarter length version which is now at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
		She had known Sir Frank Swettenham from her trips to Singapore.
	www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/Sir_Frank_Swettenham.htm (283 words)

	MALAYSIA - Champagne Weekend
		Sir Frank Swettenham was an empire-builder in the grand tradition and he played a major role in the history of the Malay States.
		The new building, "Carcosa", as he called it, was on a different hilltop to the Residency, in a position overlooking the area that later became the Lake Gardens.
		Swettenham probably moved into "Carcosa" in 1901 and the house continued to be occupied by the most senior British civil servant for the next forty years.
	www.concorde-travel.com /CW/CW_MALAYSIA.htm (1402 words)

	MCG Events - May 2003
		Frank Swettenham was by any standards a remarkable man, and certainly one of the four most able British administrators (the other three being Raffles, Maxwell and Low), to have left their marks on the Malay Peninsula.
		Swettenham's contribution is the greater because he spent his entire career in Malaya.
		We did not have the time to focus on Swettenham as a historian and artist, but his paintings with George Giles have been collected into a book by Henry Barlow and Lim Chong Keat which we were able to buy after the lecture.
	www.malaysianculturegroup.com /oldevents/may03events.htm (2928 words)

	Carcosa Sri Negara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir Frank Swettenham, then the British advisor to the Sultan of Perak, suggested that the four states form a single Federation.
		Sir Frank himself was appointed the first Resident-General of the Federated Malay States.
		But Sir Frank had loved the site ever since 1888, when he visited a jungle area on the western outskirts.
	www.auyongwaikai.com /carcosa.html (289 words)

	NPG 4837; Sir Frank Swettenham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A portrait of the colonial administrator Sir Frank Swettenham was commissioned in 1903 from the leading society portraitist of the time, the American artist John Singer Sargent, by the Malay Straits Association of London.
		This portrait of Swettenham by Sargent began as a copy of the original portrait by one of Sargent's copyists but Sargent took over the painting and Swettenham gave fresh sittings.
		Swettenham wears his white uniform and adopts an elegant, Van Dyckian pose, leaning against the chair and gripping it with his right hand, his clawlike fingers providing a note of tension.
	195.172.6.37 /betsie/parser.pl/0005/www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw06169 (173 words)

	Travel in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia - Asia - History - WorldTravelGate.net®-
		In 1880 the state capital moved from Klang to Kuala Lumpur.
		Its rapid growth was the work of Sir Frank Swettenham, British resident after 1882.
		Frank Swettenham chose KL as his administrative center and ordered the construction of new buildings using brick.
	www.asiatravelling.net /malaysia/kuala_lumpur/kuala_lumpur_history.htm (530 words)

	History of Negeri Sembilan
		In 1893, Sir Frank Swettenham proposed for the formation of a federation to Sir Cecil Clement Smith.
		The British government agreed with the proposal and Sir Frank Swettenham was commissioned to get the agreements from all the rulers of the state concerned.
		It was finally signed in 1896 and the states became the Federated Malay States under the rule of a Resident-General.
	www.hotelreservation.com.my /hotel/n_sembilan/history.htm (391 words)

	Kuala Lumpur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Frank Swettenham was at this time appointed Resident of Selangor and he was the person responsible for making Kuala Lumpur the seat of administration of Selangor.
		It was under his rule that after Kapitan Yap's death the city continued to prosper.
		When the Federated Malay States were incorporated with Swettenham in charge in 1896, Kuala Lumpur was made the capital.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kuala_lumpur (2003 words)

	The Reader: Special book gift
		Frank Swettenham was a man of many talents.
		Swettenham, was read by many generations of law students.Later he got rid of her by getting her sectioned, i.e.
		Yes,it is the same person.Last Sunday,NST has a story on Sir Frank Swettenham with the title The Dark side of FAS.
	adib.typepad.com /blog/2004/10/special_book_gi.html (416 words)

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		In short, Sir Frank was perhaps the most ambitious and hardheaded imperialist that ever clawed his way to fame and fortune between the 19th and 20th centuries.
		And it was he who introduced the idea of “development and progress” to what was once a tropical sleepy hollow, more than 90% of which was covered with luxuriant jungle (today we’re lucky if there’s even 45% left).
		Indeed, Sir Frank Swettenham was the blithering idiot whose excellent but environmentally destructive work on behalf of Ego and Empire I’ve been battling to undo in the last 11 years.
	www.magickriver.net /clean.htm (1091 words)

	Kuala Lumpur Travel Information, Maps, Tourist guide and Malaysia Hotels.
		Kuala Lumpur began life as a swampy staging post for Chinese tin miners in 1857 - Kuala Lumpur means "muddy estuary" in Malay - and blossomed under the competitive rule of pioneering merchants.
		But as fights over tin concessions erupted across the country, the British used gunboat diplomacy to settle the Selangor Civil War and the British Resident, Frank Swettenham, took command of Kuala Lumpur, making it the capital of the state and, in 1896, the capital of the Federated Malay States.
		Swettenham imported British architects from India to design suitably grand buildings, and thousands of Tamil labourers poured in to build them ; development continued steadily trough the first quarter of the twentieth century.
	www.hotel4stay.com /malaysia/kuala-lumpur.html (345 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia And Singapore Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		In 1880 the British government transferred their headquarters from Klang to Kuala Lumpur, and in 1896 it became the capital of the Federated Malay States (see Malaysia).
		Under the leadership of Sir Frank Swettenham, streets were enlarged, modern building materials were used to build offices and new structures, and construction began on the Klang–Kuala Lumpur Railway.
		In 1957, British rule ended, and Kuala Lumpur became the capital of the independent Federation of Malaya.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/KualaLum.html (395 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Swettenham
		Rendered into English by Sir Frank Swettenham from M. De la Harpe's "Tangu et Félime" orignally published in Paris in 1780.
		After the French version by Monsieur de la Harpe, Member of the French Academy, published in Paris in 1780, and now done into English by Sir Frank Swettenham.
		Short, often anecdotal essays in the form of letters supposedly written by a dead friend and edited by Swettenham, who was Governor of the Straits Colony and High Commissioner of the Federated Malay States.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Swettenham (1447 words)

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		Cadangan Frank Swettenham pada 1896 akhirnya telah menghasilkan gabungan negeri-negeri seperti Perak,Selangor,Pahang dan Negeri Sembilan di bawah satu unit pentadbiran yang dikenali sebagai NNB.
		Kelemahan sistem Residen telah menyebabkan Frank tidak puas hati lalu beliau mencadangkan usul tersebut kepada pihak British.
		Bagi mengatasi masalah itu maka Frank berpendapat adalah perlu menubuhkan sebuah kerajaan pusat di bawah pimpinan Residen Jeneral untuk menyelaraskan pentadbiran di keempat-empat buah negeri Melayu tersebut.
	www.angelfire.com /id/aidid/sejm33.html (217 words)

	Kakiseni.com - Lady Swettenham
		Lady Swettenham takes the audience down memory lane, to the year 1877.
		While her husband, Frank Swettenham, who would later become the first Resident General of the newly formed Malay Federated State, busies himself with affairs of the colony, Lady Swettenham, his naive bride, sets foot on Singapore full of romantic expectations and adventure.
		She was, however, vastly disappointed, surmising it an unfriendly place inundated with equally unfriendly expatriate consorts whom she mirthlessly referred to as “the old biddies”.
	www.kakiseni.com.my /events/theatre/NTcxMQ.html (1073 words)

	NUS: Library: A Sense of History: Singapore, 1867-1914
		Chew, Ernest C. Sir Frank Swettenham and the federation of the Malay states.
		Academic exercise - Dept. of History, University of Malaya, 1959.
		Sir Frank Swettenham as Governor and High Commissioner, February 1901-October 1903.
	www.lib.nus.edu.sg /bib/sh/sing1867.html (3058 words)

	History (from Kuala Lumpur) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Strategically commanding both river valleys, the community flourished as a tin-collecting centre despite its malaria-infested jungle location.
		In 1880 Kuala Lumpur superseded Klang (now Kelang) as the state capital, and its rapid growth thereafter has been attributed to Sir Frank Swettenham, British resident after 1882.
		He initiated construction on the Klang–Kuala Lumpur Railway and encouraged the use of brick and tile in buildings as a precaution against fire and as an aid to better health.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-231535 (1043 words)

	The Athenaeum - Creating a message about Sir Frank Swettenham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Athenaeum - Creating a message about Sir Frank Swettenham
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	www.the-athenaeum.org /art/msg_1.php?id=8221 (218 words)

	Amazon.co.uk -zShops: Roff, William R.: Stories and Sketches By Sir Frank Swettenham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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