The State Council was established in 1906 as a result of the British Residency system and offered a legislative structure for the administration of a protected state managed by the British government
Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin (middle) with Japanese soldiers and administrators between 1941 and 1943
John Coleraine Hanbury Barcroft was a British colonial administrator and civil servant who served as the British resident to Brunei from 1951 to 1954, Financial Secretary of Sarawak from June 1955 to