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Sir Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, GCMG (Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke; 3 June 1829 – 17 May 1917), born Charles Anthoni Johnson, ruled as the head of state of Raj of Sarawak from 3 August 1868 until his death.
In 1863 Rajah Charles Brooke had led a bala (army) of 15,000 Dayak volunteers against the Kayan people of the upper Rajang River, who had been attacking Dayak longhouses downriver. In concluding the peace-making in late 1863, Brooke considered Sarawak to be ‘without an enemy in her dominions and without an inter-tribal war of any description.’
From 1842 until 1946, three members of the English family Brooke governed the State of Sarawak in succession: Rajah Sir James Brooke (from 1842 until his death in 1868), his nephew Rajah Sir Charles Brooke (1868 – 1917), and his son His Highness Rajah Sir C. Vyner Brooke (1917 – 1946).
Charles Anthoni Johnson (3 Jun 1829 - 17 Mei 1917), kemudiannya dikenali sebagai Charles Brooke memerintah Sarawak sebagai Raja Putih kedua dari 3 Ogos 1868 hingga dia mangkat. Dia menggantikan ayahanda saudaranya, James Brooke sebagai raja.
Sir Charles Anthony Johnson Brooke (b. June 3, 1829, Berrow, Somerset, Eng.—d. May 17, 1917, Cirencester, Gloucestershire), who adopted the surname Brooke, became the second raja. The government of Charles Brooke has been described as a benevolent autocracy.
Charles Vyner Brooke, the second son of Charles Brooke, succeeded his father to become the third Rajah of Sarawak on 24 May 1917. The elder son Betram Brooke had earlier on declined the offer to rule.
In the “Concluding Remarks” appended to his journal for 1853–63, published in London in 1866 as Ten Years in Sarawak, Charles Brooke gave his support to the unfashionable idea of miscegenation between Europeans and Asians. The younger nephew of the first Rajah, James Brooke, and heir apparent to the Brooke raj to which he succeeded two ...
