James Brooke
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Sir James Brooke, was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from 1841 until his death in 1868.
Portrait by Herbert Watkins, 1858
Attack by Illanun pirates on Brooke's Jolly Bachelor, T. Datu, 1843
Royalist 1834 – Royal Yacht Squadron – illustrated 1909
James Brooke and Sir Edward Belcher negotiating with the Sultan of Brunei, Oct 1844 which eventually led to the signing of the Treaty of Labuan between the Brunei sultanate and the British delegation on 18 December 1846 at the court of Brunei, in which Labuan was ceded to Great Britain.
Sir Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke was the Rajah of Sarawak from 3 August 1868 until his death in May 1917. He succeeded his maternal uncle, James Brooke, who was the first rajah and founder of Raj of
James Brooke
…was deposed and banished from Sarawak. James Brooke increased the charges against John to treasonous conduct and later named John's younger brother, Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, as his successor. On 11 June 1868, Brooke died in Burrator, Dartmoor, Devon, in south-west England, having suffered three strokes during his last ten…
Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak
Rajah Charles as depicted on a one cent coin