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Anthony Lamb (botanist)
Datuk Anthony L. Lamb M.A., Dip. Ag., D.T.A., P.G.D.K. (born 1937) is a British botanist, born in British Ceylon and specializing in the flora of Sabah, East Malaysia, on the northwest portion of the island of Borneo. Lamb was educated in the United Kingdom, at Blundell's School in Tiverton and at St John's College at Cambridge. Lamb arrived in Sabah, then part of the British Crown Colony of North Borneo, in 1962 and started work on developing agricultural settlement schemes around Tawau. In 1981, Lamb set up the Tenom Orchid Centre as a Sabah State Government conservation project. He is co-author of ''Rhododendrons of Sabah'' (1988) and ''Pitcher-Plants of Borneo'' (1996), and a coordinator and a co-author of the ''Orchids of Borneo'' series. In 2015, Lamb was awarded a P.G.D.K. (Panglima Gemilang Darjah Kinabalu, in English: Commander of the Order of Kinabalu) by the Governor of Sabah, which carries the title of Datuk. Lamb is married to Datin Anthea Phillipps, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Datuk
Datuk (or its variant Dato or Datu) is a Malay title commonly used in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia, as well as a traditional title by Minangkabau people in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The title of the wife of Datuk is Datin. Origin The oldest historical records mentioning about the title ''datuk'' is the 7th century Srivijayan inscriptions such as Telaga Batu from Palembang, Indonesia, to describe lesser kings or vassalized kings. It was called ''dātu'' in Old Malay language to describe regional leader or elder, a kind of chieftain that rules of a collection of ''kampungs'' (villages) called Kedatuan. The Srivijaya empire was described as a network or mandala that consisted of settlements, villages, and ports each ruled by a datu that vowed their loyalty (''persumpahan'') to the central administration of Srivijayan Maharaja. Unlike the indianized title of raja and maharaja, the term datuk was also found in the Philippines as datu, which suggests its common native Austronesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |