Image: WilliamFarquhar

Description: Colonel (later Major-General) William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839), an employee of the British East India Company, and the first Resident of colonial Singapore (6 February 1819 – 1 May 1823).
Title: WilliamFarquhar
Credit: Photograph of a lithograph by M. Gauci (1774–1854) captioned "Colonel William Farquhar of the Madras Engineer Corps". The photograph is from the photograph and print collection of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), photograph no. 16311 (14 x 10.5 cm): see http://kitlv.pictura-dp.nl/index.php?option=com_memorix&Itemid=28&task=topview&searchplugin=eenvoudigdistkitlv&onderwerp=army&cp=3&rpp=12&CollectionID=1&RecordID=37530&PhotoID=KLV001033453. A copy of the lithograph is in the collection of the National Library of Singapore, having been donated by Daniel Sangster, great-great-grandson of Farquhar. The lithograph was itself based on an oil painting called The Rajah of Madras (c. 1828, at the time of Farquhar's marriage to Margaret Loban) by John Graham, currently owned by Wendy Lumsden, wife of James William Farquhar Lumsden, the great-grandson of Farquhar. Image transferred from en.wikipedia using CommonsHelper.
Author: Photographer unknown; lithograph by M. Gauci; original painting by John Graham (possibly John Graham Gilbert (1794–1866), known as John Graham prior to his marriage to Jane Gilbert in 1834: see (1) John Graham Gilbert (John Graham), 1794–1866. Gazetteer for Scotland. Archived from the original on 2007-07-13. Retrieved on 2010-04-03. (2) James Maclehose (1886). John Graham Gilbert, 1794–1866. Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men: Who have Died during the last Thirty Years and in their Lives did much to Make the City what it is now. James Maclehose and Sons (republished online by Glasgow Digital Library, University of Strathclyde). Archived from the original on 2007-07-17. Retrieved on 2010-04-03.). Original uploader was Rizalninoynapoleon at en.wikipedia.
Permission: PD-old-70, PD-Art.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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