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In Court and Kampong (Dodo Press)
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford GCMG GBE (1866-1941) was a British colonial administrator. Clifford intended to follow his father, a distinguished colonial general, into the British Army, but later decided to join the civil service in the Straits Settlements. He was later transferred to the British Protectorate of the Federated Malay States. Clifford arrived in Malaya in 1883, at the age of 17. He first became a cadet in the State of Perak. During his twenty years in Perak, Clifford socialised with the local Malays and studied their language and culture deeply. He served as British Resident at Pahang, 1896-1900 and 1901-1903, and Governor of North Borneo, 1900-1901. Later he was appointed Governor of the Gold Coast, 1912-1919, Nigeria, 1919-1925, and Ceylon, 1925-1927. He continued to write stories and novels about Malayan life. His last posting was as Governor of the Straits Settlements and British High Commissioner in Malaya from 1927 until 1930. His works include: A Dictionary of the Malay Language (1894), In Court and Kampong (1897) and Studies in Brown Humanity (1898).
In Court and Kampong
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In Court & Kampong
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The House of Clifford
"Cliffords throughout the world will welcome the appearance of this authoritative volume, whose compilation, as the author makes clear in his introduction, has involved many distinguished contributors as well as himself. The book begins by tracing the medieval barons of Clifford from before the Conquest, and the generations who became masters first of the barony of Clifford and then of extensive estates in Westmorland and elsewhere. The Clifford lords played a central role in national and local history, a tradition which was continued into the Tudor and Stuart periods. The story of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, was a particularly fascinating episode. The history of the author's own line, the Cliffords of Chudleigh, is also traced in detail: the account of the secret negotations between Charles II and King Louis XIV will perhaps be of particular interest"--Front flyleaf. Some descendants and relatives immigrated to Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and else- where. Includes some ancestry in pre-Conquest Normandy and elsewhere in Europe.
Modern Subjects/colonial Texts
Holden reveals how the experience as a colonial administrator made Clifford suspicious of the economic expediency which often underlies the rhetoric of mission and duty."--BOOK JACKET.
