Temenggong Abdul Rahman

Abdul Rahman was the temenggong, a senior Malay chief, of Johor who settled on the island of Singapore around 1811. On 6 February 1819 he and Hussein Shah signed the treaty with Stamford Raffles that allowed the British East India Company to found a settlement on the island. His descendants, the temenggongs, later took over the government of Johor, and his grandson Abu Bakar became sultan.