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A British Planter In Perak: Ronald Boxall (Part 1)
Ronald Boxall was born on the 31st of July 1925 in London, England. He had two siblings Alfred Ernest Boxall and James Boxall. He completed his primary school studies at the Battersea Grammar School and his secondary studies at the Rosendale High School between 1931 to 1940.
Drafted into the service (Military) because of the Second World War he was posted to Oxford University from 1941 to 1942 to learn Hindi. After Oxford he was posted to Nepal to serve in the Queen’s Regiment from 1942 to 1945.
He arrived in Malaya in 1948 after the Second World War as an officer of Agricultural Science under the British Government’s redevelopment project. He was then posted to the The Narborough (FMS) Rubber Sungkai Estate Limited in Sungkai, Gedong Estate in Bidor and the Consolidated Salak Rubber Estates Limited in Bidor.
Ronald Boxall was involved as a representative in many government bodies in Perak; he was an Advisor for the Juvenile Court, the Rubber Licensing Board, Malaria Advisory Board, Labour Exchange Advisory Committee. In 1967 he was the chairman of the Perak’s Planters Association, he was also an Inspector in the Malayan government’s rubber replanting scheme.
He met his wife Aminah Bt Selamat while she was working in Jubilee Park, Ipoh in 1970 and they were married in 1972 and blessed with 4 children (3 girls and a boy).
Ronald Boxall passed away on the 31st of January 2007.
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To read about Ronald Boxall (Part 2) receiving an award from the Sultan of Perak, click here.
To see a photograph of the office bearers of the Freemasons'Napier Lodge, Ipoh (in 1958) including Ronald Boxall, click here.