Charles John Irving

Charles John Irving, CMG, (7 February 1831, Isabelle Place, Camberwell, London - 23 February 1917, Exmouth)^[1] was acting Lieutenant-Governor of Penang (present-day Malaysia) from 1879 to 1880. He was Resident Councillor of Penang from 1885 to 1887 and Colonial Auditor General to the government of the Straits Settlements at Penang from 1867 to 1879 under governors Sir Harry Ord and Edward Anson. He was with the Colonial and Immigration Office from 1852 to 1853. He was one of the very few Straits officials who had studied the Malay political and social systems. He was an expert on native affairs on the Malay Peninsula whom Governors Ord and Anson used in different negotiations. In 1871 Anson sent James W. W. Birch, then Colonial Secretary, together with Auditor-General Irving to see Sultan Abdul Samad at Langat to re-establish order there. He was a clerk in the Audit Office at Mauritius from 1853 to 1864.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

References

1. ^ Irving Road, Penang & Charles John Irving (Biographical data at bottom half of page)
2. ^ The Colonial Office List for 1867 By Great Britain Colonial Office Published by Harrison, 1867; Item notes: 1867; p. 98
3. ^ Who's who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary By Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen Published by A. & C. Black, 1903; Item notes: 1903
4. ^ The Imperial Frontier in the Tropics, 1865-75: A Study of British Colonial Policy in West Africa, Malaya and the South Pacific in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli By W. David McIntyre Published by Macmillan, 1967
5. ^ British Intervention in Malaya, 1867-1877 By Cyril Northcote Parkinson Published by University of Malaya Press, 1960
6. ^ Gentlemen Capitalists: British Imperialism in South East Asia, 1770-1890 By Anthony Webster Published by I.B.Tauris, 1998; ISBN 1860641717, ISBN 9781860641718

Further reading

• The Voyages of Mohamed Ibrahim Munshi By Munshi Mohamed Ibrahim, A. Sweeney, N. Phillips Translated by A. Sweeney, N. Phillips Contributor A. Sweeney, N. Phillips Published by Oxford University Press, 1975
• The Gentleman's Magazine Published by Printed by F. Jefferies, 1868; p. 237
• An Almanack...: By Joseph Whitaker, F.S.A., Containing an Account of the Astronomical and Other Phenomena ...information Respecting the Government, Finances, Population, Commerce, and General Statistics of the Various Nation's of the World, with an Index Containing Nearly 20,000 References By Joseph Whitaker Published by Whitaker's Almanack., 1888; Item notes: 1888; p. 429
• The Making of Modern South-east Asia By D. J. M. Tate Published by Oxford University Press, 1979; Item notes: v.1

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Name	Irving, Charles John
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Date of birth	7 February 1831
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Date of death	23 February 1917
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