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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.’
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.
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).
The White Rajahs were a hereditary monarchy of the Brooke family, who founded and ruled the Raj of Sarawak as a sovereign state, located on the north west coast of the island of Borneo in maritime Southeast Asia, from 1841 to 1946. Of British origin, the first ruler was James Brooke.
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.
Jun 27, 2024 · 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 ...
