Chaophraya Yommarat (Noi Punyaratabandhu)
''Chaophraya'' Aphaiphuthon ( th, เจ้าพระยาอภัยภูธร ? - 1827), personal name Noi ( th, น้อย), was the ''Samuha Nayok'' ( th, สมุหนายก) or Prime Minister of Northern Siam from 1813 to 1827. He was a member of the Punyaratabandhu ( th, บุณยรัตพันธุ์) family. Noi was a son of ''Chaophraya'' Sithammathirat ( th, เจ้าพระยาศรีธรรมาธิราช), personal name Boonrot, who was the Minister of Palatial Affairs during the reigns of King Taksin and King Rama I. In 1785, during the Nine Armies' War, Noi's father ''Chaophraya'' Thamma Boonrot was stripped of his position due to a mismanagement during the war. His father was later restored to the position of ''Chaophraya'' Sithammathirat as the master of palace ceremonies. Noi's sister, Lady Pi, became a consort of Prince Itsarasunthon. In 1809, King Rama I passed away and was succeeded by his son Prince Itsarasunthon as ...
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Chaophraya Rattanathibet
The Chao Phraya ( or ; th, wikt:เจ้าพระยา, แม่น้ำเจ้าพระยา, , or ) is the major river in Thailand, with its low alluvial plain forming the centre of the country. It flows through Bangkok and then into the Gulf of Thailand. Etymology On many old European maps, the river is named the ''Mae Nam'' (Thai: wikt:แม่น้ำ, แม่น้ำ), the Thai word for "river" (literally, "motherly water"). James McCarthy (surveyor), James McCarthy, F.R.G.S., who served as Director-General of the Siamese Government Surveys prior to establishment of the Royal Thai Survey Department, Royal Survey Department, wrote in his account, "''Mae Nam'' is a generic term, ''mae'' signifying "mother" and ''Nam'' "water," and the epithet Chao P'ia signifies that it is the chief river in the kingdom of Siam." Herbert Warington Smyth, H. Warington Smyth, who served as Director of the Department of Mines in Siam from 1891 to 1896, refers to it in his ...
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