Alexander Rankin Dunlop

In October 1886, he accompanied Governor William Hood Treacher on an inspection tour in the West Coast Residency and to Silam in Lahad Datu.

[note 1] In 1888, he left the company for unknown reasons, but returned to the position of a second-level administrative officer in 1890 for the settlement areas of Labuk and Sugut,[1] and was thus able to gain valuable knowledge of the local tribes, including those to where Mat Salleh belonged.

[3] After the company's annual Christmas dinner in London in late 1897, he accompanied William Clark Cowie on a journey back to North Borneo.

Together with his colleagues from the other divisions, he represents the second highest administrative body of North Borneo after the governor and enjoys some privileges such as trip to the company's annual Christmas dinner in London, which he attends on 8 December 1903 and which he joins a longer home leave from which he returns on 1 April 1904.

[2][5] His wife health condition was suddenly deteriorating in 1914 that forcing him to quit his service at the North Borneo Chartered Company and depart to Europe from Sandakan on 28 March.

[6] Dunlop died on 8 August 1946 at Semperna Cissbury Road Ferring, Worthing, West Sussex in England.