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Brooke, Sir James (1803–1868)  

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Sir James Brooke (1803–1868) by Sir Francis Grant, 1847 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Brooke, Sir James (1803–1868), army officer and first raja of Sarawak  

R. H. W. Reece

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Brooke, Sir James (1803–1868), army officer and first raja of Sarawak, was born at Secrore, a suburb of Benares, India, on 29 April 1803, the second son of Thomas Brooke (1760–1835), chief judge of the East India Company's court at Moorshabad, and his Scottish second wife, ...