Straits Settlements (sgp)

Straits Settlements

Straits Settlements ranks 2,206th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Latakia, Bhopal, and St Pancras, London. Memorable people born in Straits Settlements include Tony Tan, S. R. Nathan, and Wu Lien-teh. Memorable people who died in Straits Settlements include Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz. Straits Settlements has been the birth place of many politicians, and physicians and the death place of many biologists. Straits Settlements is located in Singapore.

The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under control of the British Raj in 1858 and then under direct British control as a Crown colony in 1867. In 1946, following the end of World War II and the Japanese occupation, the colony was dissolved as part of Britain's reorganisation of its Southeast Asian dependencies in the area. Read more on Wikipedia