Alexander Rankin Dunlop

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AR Dunlop

Alexander Rankin Dunlop (born September 23, 1868 in Picton , Nova Scotia , Canada , † August 8, 1946 in Worthing , West Sussex ) was a British administrator. He served within the North Borneo Chartered Company and rose to be a resident.

Life

Alexander Rankin Dunlop from Scotland was born on September 23, 1868, the third of four children. His father, Henry Dunlop, had emigrated to Canada from Glasgow with his wife Sarah Mackay in 1864 . In 1880 the Dunlops lived in New York, where Alexander's father had found work as a cotton spinner. The family moved once more, this time to California to try their luck as a farmer.

AR Dunlop joined the North Borneo Chartered Company as an administrator in 1885.

In November 1910 he married Miss Myfanwy Davonport Shrubsole, with whom he has a daughter, Hazel. In 1914 his wife's health was so bad that he resigned from the North Borneo Chartered Company and embarked for Europe on March 28th from Sandakan.

On July 21, 1927, Dunlop returned to Borneo. In 1928 he founded a company for prospecting gold. His attempts to find something in the jungle of Borneo were unsuccessful.

He died on August 8, 1946 at Semperna Cissbury Road Ferring, Worthing , West Sussex .

Professional career

In 1885 he entered the service of the company and made himself known to the country: In October 1886 he accompanied the governor WH Treacher on an inspection trip to the West Coast Residency and to Silam near Lahad Datu .

In 1888 he left the company for unknown reasons, but in 1889 he returned to the position of administrative clerk 2nd class for the settlement areas at Labuk and Sugut and was thus able to gain valuable knowledge about the local tribes also belonged to Mat Salleh . During this time he also took part in various expeditions: Gunsayat (1889), Labut and Sugut (1890), Penungah to Padas (1890) and Omadal (1892). Several of his reports on these expeditions are part of the linguistic-anthrophological source literature on the indigenous groups of Sabah.

As Assistant Resident-in-Charge of Penungah and the Interior , he arrived in Sandakan on August 24, 1891 . Since this coincides with the end of the service of William B. Pryer , the resident of the East Coast , the occasion was probably the departure of W. Pryer.

Most of the time between 1892 and 1903, Dunlop held various government offices in or near Tawau . However, this had little to do with purely administrative activity, for example he took part in various punitive expeditions against the rebels under Mat Salleh in 1896 and 1898 and against Kamunta in 1901. After the company's annual Christmas dinner in London, he accompanied Cowie on his journey back to Borneo at the end of 1897. It can be assumed that he accompanied Cowie to Menggatal to assist in negotiations with Mat Salleh. Two years later, under the command of CH Harrison, he commanded the attack on Fort Mat Salleh in Tabunan , in which Mat Salleh was killed on December 31, 1900. His detailed and illustrated diary records of the final battle are now in the Sabah State Archives.

In late 1901, Dunlop was withdrawn from the east coast and made a resident of the west coast . Together with his colleagues from the other divisions, he represents the second highest administrative authority in North Borneo after the governor and now enjoys a number of privileges such as the trip to the company's annual Christmas dinner in London, which he attends on December 8, 1903 and which he participates with a longer home leave from which he returned on April 1, 1904.

The area to be administered by Dunlop was expanded in May 1905 to include the administration of the province of Alcock. The West Coast Residency was the largest and most important residency of the company and Dunlop the second most powerful official in North Borneo.

Corresponding statements in the newspapers of the time suggest that "the jungle man" Dunlop was not only able to adapt perfectly to the peculiarities of life in the tropical jungle, but that he had also won the respect and esteem of the indigenous tribes.

Others

The Dunlop Street , one of the two main streets of Tawau is named after AR Dunlop.

literature

  • KG Tregonning: A History Of Modern Sabah (North Borneo 1881–1963) , 2nd edition, University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1965, reprint 1967
  • Ken Goodlet: Tawau - The Making of a Tropical Community , Opus Publications, 2010 ISBN 978-983-3987-38-2
  • Datu Paduka Mat Salleh - Hero of Sabah (1894-1900) , ed. from the Sabah State Archives, Kota Kinabalu, May 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Personal communication to Wikipedia by the director of the Sabah State Archives, Kota Kinabalu; Email from January 10, 2012 (OTRS ticket #: 2012011010002105)
  2. ^ A b Dunlops in Canada, Borneo and Los Angeles, California
  3. ↑ Section Social and Personal  ( Page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Straits Times , Nov. 28, 1910 issue, page 6; Accessed January 2, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  4. ↑ a b Entry about his death in the Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790–1976; researched on Ancestry.com
  5. ↑ a b c d e Hon. AR Dunlop leaves BNB  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), Apr. 18, 1914, 6@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  6. ↑ Section Social and Personal  ( Page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: The Straits Times, Aug 10, 1927, 8@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  7. ↑ Tregonning, page 97
  8. ↑ Straits Times Weekly Issue, 13 December 1886, page 14  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  9. ↑ The Straits Times, September 27, 1889, page 3  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  10. ↑ Hans JB Combrink, Craig Soderberg, Michael E. Boutin, and Alanna Y. Boutin: INDIGENOUS GROUPS OF SABAH: An Annotated Bibliography of Linguistic and Anthropological Sources
  11. ↑ British North Borneo Herald of September 1, 1891, quoted in: Straits Times Weekly Issue, September 23, 1891, page 13  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  12. ↑ British North Borneo heading  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Straits Times, Nov. 16, 1901, 3@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  13. ↑ Mr. Cowie  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: The Straits Times , December 20, 1897, p. 2@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  14. ↑ The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884–1942)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Edition of November 15, 1901, page 3@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  15. ↑ Worthy of the Empire , guest list  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: The Straits Times, Jan 5, 1904, p. 5@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  16. ↑ British North Borneo heading  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Straits Times, May 13, 1904, 5@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  
  17. ^ Rubric British North Borneo - Official Movements  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Straits Times, May 18, 1905, 3@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / newspapers.nl.sg  

Remarks

  1. ↑ In Silam, the Agricultural Research Station ( BNB Agricultural Research Station ) was set up in 1884 .
  2. ↑ The following expeditions are cited therein: 1889 - Result of his expedition ( BNBH 7 (9): 280); 1890 - Labuk, Sugut District report ( BNBH 8 (6): 180-182); 1890 - Report on an expedition from Penungah to Padas ( BNBH 8 (11): 344-348).
  3. ↑ Kamunta was one of the followers of Mat Salleh, who tried to continue the rebellion shortly after his death. He was arrested in Kudat in 1902 and sentenced to death.
personal data
SURNAME Dunlop, Alexander Rankin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunlop, AR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Administration Officer and Resident East Coast and Sandakan
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Picton , Nova Scotia , Canada
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1946
Place of death Worthing , West Sussex , England