Thomas Parr Monument

[2] The monument is located approximately 170 metres (560 ft) southeast of Fort Marlborough, the former British stronghold in the region.

[4] The Thomas Parr Monument is octagonal in shape, covering a total area of 70 square metres (750 sq ft).

[3] Alan Harfield, in his 1985 discussion of the British graveyard and monuments in Bengkulu, quotes it as follows: Here are deposited the Remains of Thomas Parr Esquire, Resident and Representative of the Honourable E.I.

at Fort Marlborough in Bencoolen who although a benevolent Father to the Malay Inhabitants and solicitous to improve their Freedom and Prosperity in the prudent and gradual Introduction of Spontaneous ................................ fell with(out sent)ence of the ... and (unr)ivalled atrocity under the misguided and barbarous Fury of a Band of Assassins in the Night of the 27th of December A.D. 1807 in the ...th Year of His Age.

[1][2] Though the monument was built as a memorial to Parr and his death, the people of Bengkulu have reinterpreted it as a testament to their willingness to defend their land rights and traditional customs.