{"product_id":"swettenham","title":"Swettenham","description":"Description About the Author Frank Swettenham joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1870, aged twenty, and retired in 1903 as Governor of the Straits Settlements. He remained a significant voice in British colonial policy until his death in 1946, and his biography provides a unique account of colonial Malaya. Henry S. Barlow describes him as an “outstandingly able and effective man, but scarcely a nice one”, noting that Swettenham displayed “ruthless ambition” in his professional and social life and was “cruel, cold-hearted, and deceitful” in his personal life. This comprehensive and exceptionally readable account, a reprint of a limited edition privately published in 1995, presents the man in full. An exceptionally readable biography of a major figure in Malaysian and British colonial history. The life of a man whose abilities and ambition carried him to senior positions in colonial Malaya and in the British business world. H. S. Barlow (1944 – ) came to in 1970 and worked as financial director of a family-run estates agency. In 1983, following Malaysianization, he spent nearly a decade preparing the Swettenham biography and working on a voluntary basis for local NGOs concerned with the environment and with architectural heritage. He subsequently joined boards of two government-linked estate management companies as an independent non-executive director. He currently runs an arboretum for rare and endangered West Malaysian tree species and pursues a lifelong interest studying the butterflies and moths of the area.","brand":"bookshop.lol","offers":[{"title":"Epigram Bookshop","offer_id":43576481808462,"sku":"9789670075020","price":74.12,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/3857\/4926\/files\/0161eb34-3e81-46e2-90ff-c11277269bec.jpg?v=1774423725","url":"https:\/\/bookshop.lol\/products\/swettenham","provider":"bookshop.lol","version":"1.0","type":"link"}