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Datoh Panglima Kinta Haji Mohd Eusoff & Perak Major Chiefs In Ipoh
This photograph reproduced from the 'Lord of Kinta', shows the Datoh Panglima Kinta Haji Mohd Eusoff with Perak's major chiefs.
Mohd Eusoff bin Mohd. Yusuff was born in Ipoh in 1897. He received his early education in Anderson School (Ipoh). He had served as an assistant collector of land revenue in Kinta, an Ipoh magistrate and the assistant commssioner for co-operative developement. Then, he was the first Malay to be made President of the Ipoh Rotary Club and elected District Governer of Rotary International, District 330, for 1951/52. He was also installed as the fourteenth Datoh Panglima Kinta in 1951.
Mohd Eusoff was closely involved with the administration of Ipoh and Perak in various capacities such as Perak State Council member in 1952 and a member of Ipoh Town Board in 1953. Besides that, he was the President of the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society and nominated as the first representative of the Orang Asli in the Malayan government. By shunning politics, he devoted himself into public service organisations, of which he held no less than 56 appointments by the time of his death, just before Merdeka (Independence) in August 1957.
To read more about Datoh Panglima Kinta Muhammad Yusuff, click here.
To read more about Anderson School, Ipoh, click here.
For a short introduction to the Malayan Aborigines, click here.
To find the details of The Kinta Valley Book: Pioneering Malaysia's Modern Development, click here.