Straits Settlements (507, of which 150 are Chinese), British colony in the East Indies, embracing the British possessions in the Malay Peninsula (on the Strait of Malacca), Singapore, Malacca, Penang, and the Keeling Islands and Christmas Island; were under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of India till 1867, in which year they passed under the control of the Colonial Office at home.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of * Stralsund