Raja Chulan

Raja Chulan ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II Habibullah (1 July 1869 – 10 April 1933) was a member of the Perak royal family and an administrator in British Malaya. The second son of Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II, he served the Perak state administration, took part in forming the Federated Malay States in 1896, and was installed as Raja Di-Hilir Perak in 1920. ^{1 2 3}

He was born at Tanjung Brambang, Krian, and educated at Raffles Institution in Singapore and at Malacca High School. His father was exiled to the Seychelles when Chulan was a boy, after the killing of the first British Resident of Perak, J. W. W. Birch; Chulan visited his family in exile in 1889. At home he worked in the State Secretariat at Kuala Kangsar and as a settlement officer and magistrate, and he joined the rulers of Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang in forming the Federated Malay States on 1 July 1896. ¹

On 1 December 1920 Sultan Iskandar conferred on him the title Raja Di-Hilir Perak, after the British lifted the sanctions placed on his father's line. From 1920 he and other Malay rulers urged the Colonial Office to raise an infantry regiment of local Malays, the campaign that eventually produced the Royal Malay Regiment, and in 1924 he sat on the Federal Law Committee. He died at Kuala Kangsar on 10 April 1933 and was buried the next day in the royal mausoleum at Bukit Chandan. A street in Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Raja Chulan, and its monorail station carry his name. ^{1 2}