Badlishah of Kedah

Sultan Badlishah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah KCMG KBE (17 March 1894 – 13 July 1958) was the 27th Sultan of Kedah, a present Malaysian state, between 1943 and 1958. He succeeded the throne upon the death of his father, Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah. He was the elder half brother of the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Sultan Badlishah also served as regent of Kedah between 1937 and 1943. In 1943, he was deposed by the Imperial Japanese Army, but was reinstated following their surrender and the end of the Japanese occupation of Malaya in 1945.

Family

Sultan Badlishah was married twice. His first marriage was to Tunku Sofiah binti Almarhum Tunku Mahmud (born 1899) in 1923. The marriage produced an heir, who was the fifth and fourteenth King of Malaysia and the current Sultan of Kedah, Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah. Tunku Sofia died in 1934.

• Tunku Abdul Hamid (born 1925, died young)
• Tunku Hamidah (22 September 1925 - 4 November 2015)
• Tunku Abdul Halim (born 1927)
• Tunku Abdul Malik (24 September 1929 - 21 September 2015)
• Tunku Sakina (13 November 1931)
• Tunku Mansur (29 December 1933 - 18 August 1934)

Sultan Badlishah's second marriage in 1934 was to Tunku Asmah binti Almarhum Sultan Badrul Alam Shah (1911-1994), a Terengganu princess. She served as Sultanah of Kedah and gave birth to a number of children:

• Tunku Annuar (30 June 1939 - 21 May 2014)
• Tunku Hosnah (born 25 January 1936)
• Tunku Mahmud Sallehuddin (born 30 April 1942)
• Tunku Bisharah (born 18 October 1944)
• Tunku Kamaliah (born 6 June 1946)
• Tunku Badriatul Jamal (born 1 September 1947)
• Tunku Nafisah (born 20 June 1949)
• Tunku Abdul Hamid Thani (born 18 June 1952)

Death and Succession

Sultan Badlishah died on 13 July 1958 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah.

Honours

Honours of Kedah

• Founding Grand Master of the State of Kedah Star of Valour (BKK, 30 October 1952 - 13 July 1958)
• Founding Grand Master of the Kedah Supreme Order of Merit (KOM, 30 October 1952 - 13 July 1958)
• Founding Grand Master of the State of Kedah Star of Gallantry (BPK, 30 October 1952 - 13 July 1958)

Foreign Honours

•  Thailand :
  • Companion of the Order of the Crown of Thailand
  • Companion of the Order of the White Elephant
•  United Kingdom :
  • Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)-1941
  • Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)-1948 (CMG-1936)
  • King George V Silver Jubilee Medal-1935
  • King George VI Coronation Medal-1937
  • Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal-1953

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20060511194957/http://uqconnect.net/~zzhsoszy/states/malaysia/kedah.html
• http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Malaysia/kedah11.htm
• List of Sultans of Kedah