Stuart Herriot

Stuart Herriot (25 April 1812, in Swinton & Simprim, Berwickshire – 5 June 1877, in Penang, Malaysia) was a British-born trader based in Penang.[1][2][3]

Career

Herriot wrote a petition of Chung Keng Quee & 44 Others, street names and a book.[4]

Stuart Herriot had been in partnership with a George Stuart, probably a relative of his mother, as Stuart & Company, merchants & agents. This must have failed. In 1850 the Court of Directors of the East India Company discharged Herriot's insolvency. The London Gazette Issue 21149 published on 1 November 1850. Page 3 of 30 carried the following notice:

East India-House, 30 October 1850.

THE Court of Directors of the East India I Company hereby give notice, that they have received a Calcutta Gazette, containing the undermentioned notice, filed in the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors at Prince of Wales' Island, by Insolvent applying for his discharge, under the provisions of the 11th Victoria, cap. 21 :

Stuart Herriot, heretofore trading in copartnership, at Prince of Wales' Island, with one George Stuart (now residing in Europe), as merchants and agents, under the style and-firm of Stuart and Company. Date of Gazette containing a notice, September 4, 1850.

James C. Melvill, Secretary

He was a Penang municipal commissioner.[5]

Stuart Herriot and Catherine Anthony (4 October 1804 in Penang – 4 October 1859 in Penang) were married in Penang, Malaya.

References
  1. Anthony Reid (1969). The contest for North Sumatra: Atjeh, the Netherlands, and Britain, 1858-1898. University of Malaya Press.
  2. Anthony Reid (2005). Asal mula konflik Aceh: dari perebutan pantai Timur Sumatra hingga akhir. ISBN 979-461-534-X.
  3. The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Tue 18 Sep 1877 Page 1
  4. Choon San Wong (1963). A gallery of Chinese kapitans. p. 102.
  5. Charles Donald Cowan (1961). Nineteenth-century Malaya: the origins of British political control. Oxford University Press.

Further reading
  1. Stuart Herriot, 6th generation descendant of John Herriot
  2. The Straits Settlements, 1826-67: Indian presidency to crown colony By Constance Mary Turnbull
  3. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volumes 41-42
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