The long life of Charles Brooke.(Research Notes)(Biography) From: Borneo Research Bulletin | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Reece, Bob | COPYRIGHT 2003 Borneo Research Council, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Charles Brooke, the second Rajah of Sarawak, continues to languish as a subject of biographical interest. Apart from the brief treatment given him by S. Baring-Gould and C.A. Bampfylde, whom he commissioned to write Sarawak Under Its Two White Rajahs, 1839-1908 (1909) (1), and Sir Steven Runciman's and Robert Payne's somewhat perfunctory accounts in The White Rajahs (1961) (2) and The White Rajahs of Sarawak (1960), (3) there is only Colin Crisswell's popular biography (1978). Raja...

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