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William Cowan was an officer in the Chinese Protectorate in Malaya (Malaysia) working as assistant and then protector in the Perak area. He monitored the Chinese Secret Societies as well as implementing health and other reforms.

Hannah More, a well-known playwright and religious writer, met Alexander Johnston in 1819 and he asked for her plays to be translated into Sinhalese by Buddhist priests.