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> April 24, 2012
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> John M. Gullick
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> Ed. note: We received the following note from Professor Anthony J
> Stockwell concerning the recent passing of John M. Gullick. I have
> been unable to ascertain the specific birth and death dates, but
> do not wish to delay the posting of the news. FFC
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Tony Stockwell<namorasende@gmail.com>
>
> Colleagues will be saddened to learn of the recent death of John
> Gullick,the last of Malaya's scholar-administrators. He was in his
> 96th year.
>
> John had careers in colonial administration, business and law, and he
> made a major contribution to scholarship on the Malay world. He was
> the first recipient of the Society's Award (new-style Medal) in 2002.
>
> After Cambridge (where he achieved First Class in both parts of the
> Classics Tripos) he entered the the Colonial Administrative Service.
> Before being posted to Uganda, he was called up for military service
> (1940-46) first in the Ethiopian campaign, then in military
> administration in East Africa, the Middle East and finally Malaya.
> After he was demobilised (with the rank of lieutenant colonel) he
> entered the Malayan Civil Service, retiring on the eve of Malayan
> independence. He was then appointed secretary to the Guthrie group of
> plantation companies. Having been called to the bar in the early
> 1950s, Gullick resigned to qualify as a solicitor and rose to become
> senior partner in a City firm. He served as deputy chairman of the
> governors of London School of Economics and on the international
> advisory board of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
>
> During leave from Malaya in the 1950s, Gullick studied at the LSE under
> Raymond Firth and Maurice Freedman. His dissertation formed the basis
> for the pioneering monograph, _Indigenous Political Systems of Western
> Malaya_ (1958 and subsequent editions in English and Malay).
> Thereafter he published prolifically, examining Malaysian history from
> the perspective of the social-anthropologist, notably in _Malay
> Society in the Late Nineteenth Century_ (1987) and _Rulers and
> Residents: Influence and Power in the Malay States 1870-1920_ (1992).
>
> John Gullick remained productive into his 90s - he contributed sixteen
> entries to the _Oxford Dictionary of National Biography_ - and was
> unstintingly generous with his time and knowledge towards generations
> of students and scholars with whom he maintained correspondence to the
> end.
>
> Tony Stockwell
> Royal Holloway College
> 20 April 2012
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> Ed. note: A partial bibliography of J. M. Gullick's books follows:
>
> _The story of early Kuala Lumpur_
> (Singapore: D. Moore, 1956)
> LCCN 76360129 //r85.
>
> _Indigenous political systems of western Malaya_
> London: University of London, Athlone Press, 1958.
> London School of Economics. Monographs on social anthropology, no.17.
> NOTE "Submitted and accepted as a thesis for the academic postgraduate
> diploma in anthropology of the University of London. Some minor
> alterations ... have been made."
> LCCN 58003735 /L.
>
> _Malayan pioneers_ (with Gerald Hawkins)
> (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 1958)
> LCCN 74154115
>
> _A history of Selangor, 1742-1957_
> (Singapore: D. Moore for Eastern Universities Press, 1960.
> LCCN 78019686.
>
> _Malaya_
> (New York: Praeger.1963)
> Nations of the modern world series
> LCCN 63016984 /L.
>
> _Malaya_ (revised edition)
> New York: Praeger, 1964)
> LCCN 64008340.
>
> _Malaysia and its neighbours_
> (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967)
> LCCN 67082426
>
> _Malaysia_
> (New York: Praeger, 1969)
> LCCN 69011867.
>
> Place called Chelsea / edited by John Gullick ;
> [photography by John...
>
> _A Place called Chelsea_ / edited by John Gullick
> (London: City Journals Limited, 1975)
> ISBN: 0950447102
>
> _Malaysia:
> economic
> expansion and national
> unity_ (London: E. Benn; Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1981)
> Nations of the modern world.
> ISBN 0865310890
>
> _The entrepreneur in late 19th century Malay peasant society: the
> third James C. Jackson Memorial Lecture presented at the University of
> Adelaide on 15th May 1984 to the Malaysia Society of the Asian Studies
> Association of Australia_
> (Townsville, Qld.: Asian Studies Association of Australia Malaysia
> Society, 1984.
> [12] p.
> ISBN 0908055048
>
> _Malaysia, Its Political and Economic Development_
> (Pelanduk Publications, 1986)
> ISBN 9679780929
>
> _The Blockade of Kedah in 1838: A Midshipman's Exploits in Malayan
> Waters_ by Sherard Osborn, Introduction by J. M. Gullick
> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
> ISBN 019588860X
>
> _Malay society in the late nineteenth century: the beginnings of
> change_
> (Singapore; New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
> ISBN 0195888502.
>
> _Kuala Lumpur, 1880-1895: A City in the Making_
> Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia: Pelanduk Publications, 1988
> ISBN 9679782336
>
> _Josephine Foss and the Pudu English School: A Pursuit of Excellence_
> (Subang Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia: Pelanduk Publications
> for Pudu English School Old Girl's Association, 1988
> ISBN 9679782344 / 9789679782349
>
> _Rulers and residents : influence and power in the Malay States,
> 1870-1920_
> (Singapore; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
> ISBN 0195885678 (hard cover : U.S.)
>
> _They Came to Malaya: A Traveller's Anthology_ (edited by J. M.
> Gullick)
> Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1993
> ISBN 0195886046
>
> _Glimpses of Selangor, 1860-1898_
> (Kuala Lumpur: The Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,
> 1993)
> Monographs of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society; no. 25.
> ISBN 9679948064.
>
> _Old Kuala Lumpur_
> (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994
> ISBN 9676530735
>
> _Adventures and encounters : Europeans in South-east Asia_
> [compiled by] J.M. Gullick ; with a foreword by Victor T. King.
> (Kuala Lumpur; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
> ISBN 9676530905 (pbk.)
>
> _Adventurous women in South-East Asia: six lives_
> edited and introduced by John Gullick.
> Kuala Lumpur; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
> ISBN 967653076X (pbk.)
>
> Parkinson, C. Northcote (Cyril Northcote), 1909-1993.
> _The Guthrie flagship : United Sua Betong_ edited and abridged
> by J.M. Gullick.
> (Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1996)
> Monographs of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society ; no. 26.
> ISBN 9679948072.
>
> _A history of Selangor, 1766-1939_
> (Petaling Jaya: Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia: Falcon Press, 1998)
> Monographs of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society; no. 28.
> ISBN 9679948102.
>
> _A short history of Kuala Selangor_ / by J.M. Gullick.
> (Kuala Lumpur?: Southdene, 1999)
> ISBN: 983400530X
>
> _A History of Negri Sembilan_
> Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2003)
> ISBN 9679948277
>
> _History from the Selangor Journal, 1892-1897_
> selected and edited by J.M. Gullick.
> (Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2007)
> M.B.R.A.S. reprints ; reprint no. 26.
> ISBN 9789679948370; 9679948374.
>
>
> E&OE FFC
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