JOHOR
(Singapore)

The Bendahara Dynasty
GENEALOGY
1835 - 1855 H.H. Paduka Sri Sultan Muhammad ‘Ali Iskandar Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Husain Mu’azzam Shah, Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Johor and all its dependencies. b. at Singapore, 1824, fifth son of H.H. Paduka Sri Sultan Husain Mu’azzam Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud Shah Alam, Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Johor, Pahang and all its dependencies, by his fourth wife, H.H. Tengku Prabhu binti Tengu Mahmud [Tengku Perbu], educ. privately. Succeeded on the death of his father, 2nd September 1835. Recognised as successor to his father and allowed to succeed to his porperties by the British Government in Singapore, 16th September 1840. He agreed to cede full sovereignty over Johor to Temenggong Ibrahim in return for a pension from the British Government, at the same time retaining Kesang/Muar on the mainland as a personal fiefdom, 10th March 1855. Having failed to establish his control over Kesang, he sold the rights to revenue collection several times over to different interests. Thereby losing effective control of the last vestige of his territorial possessions and reducing that province to a lawless land. Disgruntled at his treatment by the British authorities, plagued by creditors and pursued by the various competing agents he appointed in Kesang, he relocated from Singapore and settled in Malacca. m. (first) at Singapore, H.H. Tengku Ngah Anjang [Neh], Tengku Perempuan (d. from a broken heart at Mecca, Arabia, ca 15th July 1892, bur. there), a cousin and daughter of Raja Guyah, a petty prince from Siak. m. (second) (div.) Y.M. Daeng Siti (d. before 1877), daughter of a Bugis nobleman. m. (third) at Malacca, Cik Serimbuk binti Mu’min [Inche’ Sarimbah/Semboh] (d. after 1878), daughter of Daeng Muhammad Amin, a penghulu from Umbai, Malacca. He d. at Umbai, Malacca, 20th June 1877 (bur. there at Masjid Umbai), having had ssue, four sons and five daughters:
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