2.0 History of Kellie Castle.
2.1.1 The Biographies of William Kellie Smith.
2.1.1 The Biographies of William Kellie Smith.
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| William Kellie Smith |
William Kellie Smith was born in 1870 in a farm near to a village called Dallas, situated at Elgin, Scotland. He is the third child of five siblings and grew up in modest farmer family.
Year 1890: In the age of 20, he arrived in Malayan as Civil Engineer and worked with Charles Alma Baker, the famous soon to be resident on road building, forest clearing project and lucrative business of contract surveying. Later on, he worked with Kinta Railway as assistant engineer before becoming a government contractor.
He is a man with entrepreneur wisdom. He managed to secure a land 3,000 acres at the bargain prices of 10 cent per acre for the first 10 years, rising to 50 cents thereafter. He did it by using his savings and take advantage on the colonials government generous land concessions granted for Europeans to established plantations.
He grew coffee and managed to gain profits from it which later used as a capital to build first Kellie House in Malaya. It is the wooden house which still exist at the site. However, his fortune didn't last longer as the price market for coffee collapsed due to rise of coffee cloning from Brazil and rubber plantation for tyre industrial demand.
He later on went back to Scotland to visit his mother funerals and get married with his beloved wife, Agnes. He conceived two children, which is a boy and a girl with his marriage with Agnes. His first child named Helen born on 1904 when they went back to Malaya. With the reputation that he received from his wife, Agnes, the eminent 'Great Expectation', he started new ventures with loan that receive from the Singapore Firm.
However, his several attempts investment of Patchouli making perfume and sawmill log didn't success. Which later on, forced him to stop invested and forced him to sold half part of his estate to government. He reputation as wealthy and successful businessman drop in the line.
After received the money from the estate and her wife fortunes, he managed to continue his business and used it built his Kellie Castle House.
However, he died in the age of 56 due to pneumonia during his sail trip to Lisbon, Portugal in 1926. His wife and children went back to England and never return back.
2.1.2 The chronologies of Kellie Castle existence.
Year 1909 : The building of the first "Kellas House" made out of wooden.
Year 1915: The starting construction of Kellie Castle as soon the birth of William Kellie Smith son and heir, Anthony. Brought 70 craftsman and import materials construction from Madras, South India.
Year 1920: All workers struck by virulent disease called Spanish Flu. William Kellie Smith had to build a Hindu temple beside his castle in order to protect his family and his construction workers.
Year 1926: The construction of Kellie Castle stop as the death of William Kellie Smith because of pneumonia disease during his trip to Lisbon, Portugal. His wife sold his castle to British Company called Harrisons and Crossfields and packed up to Scotland and never return.
2.1.3 References.
2.1.2 The chronologies of Kellie Castle existence.
Year 1909 : The building of the first "Kellas House" made out of wooden.
Year 1915: The starting construction of Kellie Castle as soon the birth of William Kellie Smith son and heir, Anthony. Brought 70 craftsman and import materials construction from Madras, South India.
Year 1920: All workers struck by virulent disease called Spanish Flu. William Kellie Smith had to build a Hindu temple beside his castle in order to protect his family and his construction workers.
Year 1926: The construction of Kellie Castle stop as the death of William Kellie Smith because of pneumonia disease during his trip to Lisbon, Portugal. His wife sold his castle to British Company called Harrisons and Crossfields and packed up to Scotland and never return.
2.1.3 References.
- http://www.ipoh-city.com/attraction/Kellies_Castle/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellie's_Castle
- http://kelliescastles.blogspot.com/2009/03/kellies-castle-history.html
- http://telukansonchildhood.blogspot.com/2008/05/kellies-castle-or-kellas-house.html
- http://simplesimplejoy.blogspot.com/
- http://kelliescastles.blogspot.com/2009/03/kellies-castle-history.htmlhttp://kelliescastles.blogspot.com/2009/03/kellies-castle-history.html
- http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/kellie-s-castle-brought-to-life-1.315190
- http://www.propertynet.my/colonial-style-make-over-for-kellies-castle/
- http://www.mynicegarden.com/2013/07/kellies-castle-part-2-story-of-william.htm
- http://perak.attractionsinmalaysia.com/Kellie-Castle.php.
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