Noel Denison: romantic explorer or "faithful servant of the state"? A portrait of a British colonial officer through the study of his private library

• Main Author: Xu, Lu-Anne Ru'En
• Other Authors: Brendan Luyt
• Format: Thesis-Master by Coursework
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Library and information science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171058
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The 1886 catalogue of the Perak Government Museum states that 90-95% of the titles in the library were from the personal collection of a Noel Denison who was Superintendent of Lower Perak. These books were purchased by the government for the new museum and library in 1883. There is little informatio...