Malaysia

Peck, Sir John Howard (1913–95), British diplomat, was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya (Malaysia), on 16 February 1913, only child of Howard Peck (d. 1940), civil engineer, and Dorothea Peck. The family moved back to England in 1915 and lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire, and in…

Whyte, John Henry (1928–90), academic, was born 30 April 1928 in Penang, Malaya (Malaysia), son of William Henry Whyte, military officer, and Dorothy Gordon Whyte (née Hibbard), daughter of an American industrial metallurgist; he had one sibling, a younger sister. He was educated…