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Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke (10 December 1912 – 2 March 2011) was appointed the Rajah Muda of Sarawak (heir apparent; Malay: ''Yang Amat Mulia Tuan Rajah Muda Sarawak'') on 25 August 1937, and succeeded to the title of Rajah in 1963 on the death of his uncle, Rajah Vyner of Sarawak the third and last of the ruling White Rajahs. Brooke was the son of Bertram, Tuan Muda of Sarawak and Gladys Palmer, daughter of Sir Walter Palmer, and heiress to part of the Huntley & Palmers biscuit fortune. ==Background== Brooke grew up in England and was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge and the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London.〔(Sarawak genealogy )〕 Throughout the 1930s he served the Sarawak civil service in various sectors, including the Land and Registry Department, and as a magistrate.〔 He enlisted in the British Army as a private soldier in November 1941, during the Second World War, and from 1941 to 1944 served as a Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps on the staff of the South East Asia Command at Kandy, Ceylon. He was Special Commissioner for Sarawak in the United Kingdom from 1944 to 1945. Appointed as Heir Apparent with the title of ''Rajah Muda of Sarawak'' on 25 August 1937, Brooke was granted the personal style of ''His Highness''. Having been responsible for administering Sarawak between 1939 and 1940, in the absence of the Rajah, he was deprived of his styles and titles on 17 January 1940, then dismissed and expelled from the state in September 1941, following a dispute with his uncle, Rajah Vyner, over his marriage to a commoner, Kathleen Hudden, sister of a Sarawak government official.〔〔("End of Absolutism" - Time Magazine, 6 October 1941 )〕 In 1944, Brooke was restored as ''Rajah Muda'', after consultations between his uncle and his father. He was, however, deprived of his titles again on 12 October 1945.〔 In 1946 Rajah Vyner ceded Sarawak to the British Colonial Office, in exchange for a sizeable pension for him and his three daughters. Anthony Brooke, the designated heir, initially opposed the cession to the Crown, along with a majority of the native members of the Council Negri (Parliament). A five-year campaign in Sarawak followed, aimed at revoking the country's new colonial status, in part directed by Brooke from his house in Singapore.〔 In 1948, after the second British Governor of Sarawak, Sir Duncan Stewart, was assassinated by the Malay Sarawakian nationalist Rosli Dhobie, Brooke came under scrunity by MI5, the British intelligence agency, who wanted to "get wind of any other plots he and his associates might be hatching". No evidence was found that he had known of the assassination plot.〔 In 2012, a declassified document from the British National Archive showed that Brooke had had no connection with the assassination of Stewart.〔("The stabbed governor of Sarawak" - BBC News,12 April 2012 )〕 In 1951, Brooke renounced any claim to the title, although he remained, according to some loyalists, the pretender to the throne. In 2013, the Acting British High Commissioner to Malaysia attended Brooke's reburial in Sarawak and offered an apology on behalf of Great Britain, clearing Anthony Brooke's name of any involvement. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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