Charles John Irving

Charles John Irving, CMG, (7 February 1831, in Isabelle Place, Camberwell, London – 23 February 1917, in Exmouth)[1] was a British civil servant in the Malay Peninsula.

He was with the Colonial and Immigration Office from 1852 to 1853 and a clerk in the Audit Office at Mauritius from 1853 to 1864. He was one of the very few Straits officials who had studied the Malay political and social systems. He was an expert on native affairs on the Malay Peninsula whom Governors Ord and Anson used in different negotiations. In 1871 Anson sent James W. W. Birch, then Colonial Secretary, together with Auditor-General Irving to see Sultan Abdul Samad at Langat to re-establish order there. [2][3][4][5][6]

He was acting Lieutenant-Governor of Penang from 1879 to 1880, Resident Councillor of Penang from 1885 to 1887 and Colonial Auditor General to the government of the Straits Settlements at Penang from 1867 to 1879 under governors Sir Harry Ord and Edward Anson.

He was a member of the newly formed Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in Singapore, acting as the society's president around 1883.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Irving Road, Penang & Charles John Irving (Biographical data at bottom half of page)
  2. ↑ The Colonial Office List for 1867 By Great Britain Colonial Office Published by Harrison, 1867; Item notes: 1867; p. 98
  3. ↑ Who's who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary By Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen Published by A. & C. Black, 1903; Item notes: 1903
  4. ↑ The Imperial Frontier in the Tropics, 1865-75: A Study of British Colonial Policy in West Africa, Malaya and the South Pacific in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli By W. David McIntyre Published by Macmillan, 1967
  5. ↑ British Intervention in Malaya, 1867-1877 By Cyril Northcote Parkinson Published by University of Malaya Press, 1960
  6. ↑ Gentlemen Capitalists: British Imperialism in South East Asia, 1770-1890 By Anthony Webster Published by I.B.Tauris, 1998; ISBN 1-86064-171-7, ISBN 978-1-86064-171-8
  7. ↑ "Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society" (PDF). Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Retrieved 5 January 2017.

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