Malaya: two seated Malay dignatories, Tengku Zia Uddin and Raja Ismail, surrounded by their staff and Klang Police. Photograph by J. Birch, 1874.

The seated dignatories shown are, on the left, Raja Ismail, who had been given control of Klang by Sultan Muhammad in 1849/50, and, on the right, Tengku Zia Uddin Sultan Zainal Halim of Kedah, who administered Langat. On the left of Tengku Zia Uddin is his secretary, probably Syed Zin bin Mohammed Puteh al-Habshi, a Penang Malay of Arab descent. The two Europeans standing behind are the Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlement 1870-74, James Birch, and a Singapore lawyer with financial interests in the Malayan mainland and a founder in 1873 of the Malayan Tin Mining Company, James Guthrie Davidson. The photograph was taken at Klang in Selangor on 3 April 1874. (Identification of the sitters was provided by John Falconer of the Historic Photographs Section at the National Maritime Museum, August 1987)