James Wheeler Woodford Birch, commonly known as J. W. W. Birch was the first British Resident in Perak, Malaysia. He was appointed to the post onNovember 1874 as the government custodian to the Sultan of Perak following the signing of the famous Pangkor Treaty onJanuary 1874, which established Perak as a British protectorate state. He was the Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements between 1870 and 1874.
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