Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Archibald Edward Harbour Anson (Maj.-Gen., Sir), death February 1925, London

FORMER PENANG GOVERNOR DEAD. (Reuter's Service.) London, Feb. 26. The death is announced of Major-General Sir Archibald Edward Harbour Anson. (Deceased was a retired officer of the Royal Artillery. He was a Crimean veteran, being employed in the right and left seige trains in Crimea in the bombardments of June 6th and 18th, 1855. In 1867 he served as Lieut-Governor of Penang, and was Administrator of the Government of the Straits Settlements at intervals from 1871 to 1879, having charge of the Expedition in Sungei Ujong and Negri Sembilan from 1875 to 1876.) [The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 28 February 1925, Page 7])

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