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Singapore was the capital and the seat of government of the Straits Settlement after it was moved from George Town in 1832. From 1830 to 1867, the Straits Settlements was a residency, or subdivision, of the Presidency of Bengal, in British India.
Singapore was the last settlement to fall on 15 February, following the Battle of Singapore. The Straits Settlements, along with the rest of the Malay Peninsula, remained under Japanese occupation until the end of the war (August 1945).
The Straits Settlements, comprising Penang, Malacca and Singapore, was an administrative unit of the East India Company (1826–1867) and later the British Colonial Office (1867–1946). It was formed in 1826 as a presidency under the administration of the East India Company in India. The Cocos-Keeling Islands, Christmas Island and Labuan were ...
The Straits colony, occupied by Japanese during World War II, was broken up in 1946, when Singapore became a separate crown colony. Singapore attained full internal self-government in 1959, became a part of Malaysia in 1963, and became an independent republic in 1965.
In 1830, the Straits Settlements – comprising Singapore, Malacca and Penang – was made a residency of the Presidency of Bengal in Calcutta, India. Prior to that, the Straits Settlements, formed by the British East India Company (EIC) in 1826, was administered as a separate presidency with Penang as the capital.
In 1870, the Woolley Committee compiled a report on the state of education in the colony. 1 In 1872, the position of inspector of schools was created to take charge of educational matters in the Straits Settlements. The first person to fill this position was A.M. Skinner. 2.
The Straits Settlements Records (SSR) are a collection of documents relating to British administration of the Straits Settlements from 1826 to 1946, which initially comprised of Singapore, Penang, Malacca. Also coming under the Straits Settlements were Cocos Island in 1886, Christmas Island in 1900, Dindings in 1874 and Labuan in 1906.
The Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements was officially formed on 1 April 1867, when the Straits Settlements – comprising Singapore, Melaka and Penang –became a crown colony.
New governors of the new colony of the Straits Settlements saw Singapore as a potential centre for more British activity in Southeast Asia rather than as an arm of the East India Company based in India. Singapore by 1867 had become the centre for Southeast Asian trade, whether by the Dutch, British, Chinese or Bugis.
- The Straits Settlements was a former British crown colony on the Strait of Malacca, comprising four trade centres, Penang, Singapore, Malacca, and Labuan, established or taken over by the British East India Company.
