Editing Straits Settlements (section)

==Settlements==
===Dindings===
The [[Manjung District|Dindings]] — named after the [[Dinding River]] in present-day [[Manjung District]] — which comprised [[Pangkor Island]] and the town of [[Lumut, Perak|Lumut]] on the [[Peninsular Malaysia|mainland]], were ceded by [[Perak#Sultanate of Perak|Perak]] to the British government under the [[Pangkor Treaty of 1874]]. It was hoped that its excellent natural harbour would prove to be valuable. This did not come to be with the territory being sparsely inhabited and altogether politically and financially unimportant.<ref name=EB1911/>{{RP|981}} It was returned to Perak in February 1935.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sejarah Manjung|url=http://www.mpm.gov.my/sejarahmanjung1|website=Laman Web Rasmi Majlis Perbandaran Manjung|publisher=Majlis Perbandaran Manjung|access-date=18 October 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127074723/http://www.mpm.gov.my/sejarahmanjung1|archive-date=27 November 2015}}</ref>

===Malacca===
The Dutch [[Dutch Malacca|colony of Malacca]] was ceded to the British in the [[Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824]] in exchange for the British possession of [[British Bencoolen|Bencoolen]] and for British rights in [[Sumatra]]. Malacca's importance was in establishing an exclusive British zone of influence in the region, and was overshadowed as a trading post by Penang, and later, Singapore.

===Penang and Province Wellesley===
The first settlement was the Penang territory, in 1786. This originally comprised [[Penang Island]], then known as the {{'}}''Prince of Wales Island''{{'}}. This was later extended to encompass an area of the mainland, which became known as [[Province Wellesley]] (now [[Seberang Perai]]). The first grant was in 1800, followed by another in 1831. Further adjustments to Province Wellesley's border were made in 1859, in 1867 with a treaty with Siam and in 1874 with the [[Pangkor Treaty of 1874|Treaty of Pangkor]]. It was administered by a district officer, with some assistants, answering to the resident councillor of Penang. Province Wellesley consisted, for the most part, of a fertile plain, thickly populated by Malays, and occupied in some parts by sugar-planters and others engaged in similar agricultural industries and employing Chinese and Tamil labour. About a tenth of the whole area was covered by low hills with thick jungle. Large quantities of rice were grown by the Malay inhabitants, and between October and February, there was snipe-shooting in the paddy fields. A railway from Butterworth, opposite Penang, runs into Perak, and then via Selangor and Negri Sembilan to Malacca, with an extension via Muar under the rule of the Sultan of Johor, and through Johor to [[Johor Bahru]], opposite Singapore.<ref name=EB1911/>{{RP|981}}

===Singapore===
Singapore became the site of a British trading post in 1819 after its founder, [[Stamford Raffles]], successfully involved the East India Company in a dynastic struggle for the throne of [[Johor Sultanate|Johor]]. Thereafter the British came to control the entire island of Singapore, which was developed into a thriving colony and port. In 1824, the Dutch conceded any rights they had to the island in the [[Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824]], and from 1832, Singapore was the seat of government of the Straits Settlements for 114 years until its dissolution in 1946.<ref name="micaSelfGovernment">{{cite web |title=Towards Self-government |url=http://www.sg/explore/history_towards.htm |publisher=Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, Singapore |access-date=18 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060713023113/http://www.sg/explore/history_towards.htm |archive-date=13 July 2006 |url-status=dead}}|</ref>