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Captain Turner Macan (1792-1836) of Carriff, Co. Armagh, was Persian Interpreter to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in India. His edition of the Shahnameh was the first ever printed in Europe. The text was prepared from seventeen complete manuscripts and four fragments, most of which were written in Persia, lent to Macan by various British army officers and civil servants as well as local nawabs. One of these manuscripts (Rylands Persian MS 932, University of Manchester) was presented to the translator by Nasir-ud-Din Haidar, the King of Oudh.

Hisamuddin Alam Shah was educated at Malay College, Kuala Kangsor. He became the sixth Sultan of Selangor, on 4 April 1938, four days after the death of his father. On 26 January 1939 he was crowned at Istana Mahkota Puri in Klang. In January 1942, Col. Fujiyama, the Japanese Military Governor of Selangor, invited Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah to King's House in Kuala Lumpur. He was told to surrender the regalia to his older brother, and the Japanese proclaimed Tengku Musa Eddin as the new Sultan. Hisamuddin Alam Shah declined to work with the Japanese and from 1943, refused their allowance awarded to him and his children. He returned to the throne in 1945, and in 1957, was elected Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong of independent Malaya. He was elected the second Yang di-Pertuan Agong in 1960 and in July declared the end of the state of emergency in Malaya. He died on 1 September 1960, the day fixed for his official installation.