Emily Innes

Emily Anne Innes née Robertson (5 March 1843 – 7 November 1927) was a British traveller and writer.

Her husband lost and regained another job and her host was murdered when she went to visit Pangkor Island.

Innes was born in Boxley in 1843 where her father, James Craigie Robertson, was curate at St Mary's and All Saints Church.

Her mother was born Julia Maria Stevenson and her father went on to be a religious historian.

[2] She was the younger sister who kept her mother company while her father's success led to him taking lunch at The Athenaeum Club.

Once she were conscious she, the murdered officer's very ill wife and her unharmed children went to report the incident in Penang.

[2] In 1885 she published The Chersonese With The Gilding Off in two volumes which described the life she had found in South East Asia.

[4] The title was a reply to Isabella Bird who had published her book "The Golden Chersonese" based on a short visit of five weeks she had made in 1879.

Emily Innes lived here in Sarawak at Kuala Langat