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Duncan Stewart (colonial administrator)
Sir Duncan Stewart was a British colonial administrator who became the second governor of the Crown Colony of Sarawak in 1949. Within weeks of his arrival he was stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member of the movement opposing Sarawak's cession to Britain, during a visit to Sibu in December 1949, and he died of his wounds in Singapore.
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