BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF MERCANTILE PERSONALITIES OF PENANG - 2026

Following the settlement of Penang by the British East India Company in 1786 the island quickly developed into a flourishing maritime port of exchange. By 1805 the population was ‘so diversified as at this day to write in 13 distinct alphabets, & speak in 28 distinct dialects’. The 200 concise biographies of early Penang mercantile personalities included in this volume offer the reader a rare and invaluable glimpse into their lives. The selection is a veritable cultural cross-section of those who pioneered the growth of Penang in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. https://thebukukupress.com/.../biographical-dictionary-of...