Totnes
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Totnes is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England. It is about 5 miles west of Paignton, about 7 miles west-southwest of Torquay and about 20 mile
The Eastgate over High Street in 2019
The Brutus Stone in Fore Street
Totnes Guildhall
Eastgate in 1983, before the 1990 fire.
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.
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…Charles Babbage 1791–1871), polymath, mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer. went to local school. Sir James Brooke (1803–1868), soldier and adventurer, founded the Rajah of Sarawak, lived and died in nearby Burrator. Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), an Anglican priest…
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.