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title="Oceania House">Oceania House</a>, residence of the Clunies-Ross family</figcaption></figure><p>The <b>Clunies-Ross family</b> were the original settlers of the <a href="/wiki/Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="Cocos (Keeling) Islands">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</a>, a small archipelago in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a>. From 1827 to 1978, the family ruled the previously uninhabited islands as a private fiefdom, initially as <i><a href="/wiki/Terra_nullius" title="Terra nullius">terra nullius</a></i> and then later under British (1857–1955) and Australian (1955–1978) sovereignty. The head of the family was usually recognised as the <a href="/wiki/Resident_magistrate" title="Resident magistrate">resident magistrate</a>, and was sometimes styled as the "King of the Cocos Islands"; a title given by the press. </p><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="John_Clunies-Ross">John Clunies-Ross</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: John Clunies-Ross"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>John Clunies-Ross was a merchant born in <a href="/wiki/Weisdale" title="Weisdale">Weisdale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shetland" title="Shetland">Shetland</a> on 23 August 1786.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1813 he was at Timor as Third Mate on board the <a href="/wiki/Whaler" title="Whaler">whaler</a> <a href="/wiki/Baroness_Longueville_(1804_ship)" title="Baroness Longueville (1804 ship)"><i>Baroness Longueville</i></a> when he received the opportunity to become captain of the brig <i>Olivia</i>, which he took.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He reportedly first cruised the waters of the then uninhabited <a href="/wiki/Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="Cocos (Keeling) Islands">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</a> in 1825. After surveying them he moved his family to live on one of the islands in 1827.<sup id="cite_ref-chambers_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chambers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-timaru_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timaru-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-time_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Only <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Slocum" title="Joshua Slocum">Joshua Slocum</a> used different dates, when he wrote that "John Clunis-Ross, who in 1814 touched [the island] in the ship <i>Borneo</i> on a voyage to India", nailed up a <a href="/wiki/Union_Jack" title="Union Jack">Union Jack</a> with plans to settle in the future and "[...] returned 2 years later with his wife and family".<sup id="cite_ref-josh_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-josh-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1823 an English adventurer, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hare" title="Alexander Hare">Alexander Hare</a>, had settled on another of the islands with some runaway slaves. Hare soon departed, and Clunies-Ross alone obtained permanent rights by settlement.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He planted hundreds of coconut palms and brought in Malay workers to the islands to harvest the nuts, building a business by selling <a href="/wiki/Copra" title="Copra">copra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the beginning, Javanese convicts were used as labourers and "crime of all kinds was rife", before "getting rid of the criminal class and obtaining a better type of Malay <a href="/wiki/Coolie" title="Coolie">coolie</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-chambers_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chambers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a 1903 article in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Timaru_Herald" title="The Timaru Herald">The Timaru Herald</a></i>, Ross "[ran] his little colony on model lines and succeeded beyond expectation" and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> mentioned after his 1836 visit with <a href="/wiki/HMS_Beagle" title="HMS Beagle">HMS <i>Beagle</i></a> that he "found the natives in a state of freedom".<sup id="cite_ref-timaru_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timaru-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the article omitted the sentence that immediately followed: "but in most other points they are considered as slaves".<sup id="cite_ref-time_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-darwin_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-darwin-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ross traded with Dutch vessels en route to Dutch ports on Java and Sumatra, and became a naturalised Dutch subject;<sup id="cite_ref-timaru_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timaru-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he had approached both the British and the Dutch government for annexation but neither had responded.<sup id="cite_ref-chambers_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chambers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Clunies-Ross died in 1854. </p><p>His life was dramatised in the play <i><a href="/wiki/John_Ross,_King_of_Cocos_Islands" title="John Ross, King of Cocos Islands">John Ross, King of Cocos Islands</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="John_George_Clunies-Ross">John George Clunies-Ross</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: John George Clunies-Ross"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His son John George Clunies-Ross (born 1823) took over from his father under the name of Ross II.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1857 British <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Fremantle_(Royal_Navy_officer)#Sons_of_Thomas_Fremantle" title="Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer)">Captain Stephen Grenville Fremantle</a> visited aboard <a href="/wiki/HMS_Juno_(1844)" title="HMS Juno (1844)">HMS <i>Juno</i></a> who "took possession of the islands in the name of the <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Government">Britannic Majesty's Government</a>". Fremantle appointed John George as superintendent of the islands and left after a 3-month vacation. The connection to Britain changed nothing in Ross's autonomous administration, and it was not until fifteen years later another British ship arrived for a complete survey of the island.<sup id="cite_ref-timaru_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timaru-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apparently, Fremantle annexed the islands by mistake, thinking he had arrived on the <a href="/wiki/Coco_Islands" title="Coco Islands">Coco Islands</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Andaman_Islands" title="Andaman Islands">Andaman Islands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-chambers_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chambers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>John George Clunies-Ross received the Malay title of Tuan Pandai ('the learned one') due to his amateur medical knowledge and research into the natural history of the islands. The head of the family Clunies-Ross kept the title 'Tuan', a term that can be translated as 'sir'.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He married S'pia Dupong, a Malay of high rank, in 1841.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="George_Clunies-Ross">George Clunies-Ross</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: George Clunies-Ross"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born on 20 June 1842 in the Cocos Islands to John George Clunies-Ross and S'pia Dupong, George Clunies-Ross was sent to Scotland where he studied engineering at <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1871, known as Tuan Tinggi,<sup id="cite_ref-:5_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he became superintendent after his father died,<sup id="cite_ref-timaru_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timaru-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> then married Inin (1850–1889),<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a Malay of high-rank like his mother.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was during his administration, in 1885, that the first annual inspection by a representative of the <a href="/wiki/Straits_Settlements" title="Straits Settlements">Straits Settlements</a> Government occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-chambers_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chambers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1886 <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> granted the islands in perpetuity to the Clunies-Ross family.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Representatives of the Government of the Straits Settlements were sent to the island each year and reports reflected that "members of the Clunies-Ross family are to-day in every sense of the word proprietors of the islands, for Mr George Clunies-Ross makes his own laws and interprets them, polices his little domain, provides his own coinage [...] controls the entire trade and acts as 'the universal provider' to satisfy the wants of the community".<sup id="cite_ref-timaru_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timaru-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <i><a href="/wiki/Chambers%27_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Chambers' Journal">Chambers' Journal</a></i>, there had not been any metallic coins since 1837.<sup id="cite_ref-chambers_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chambers-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Six years after Inin's death, George Clunies-Ross married Ayesha, a former <i>boi</i> (servant) in 1895.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1903, the islands were annexed to the Straits Settlements and incorporated as part of the settlement of Singapore, without affecting the ownership of the territory. George Clunies-Ross died on 7 July 1910 at <a href="/wiki/Ventnor" title="Ventnor">Ventnor</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight" title="Isle of Wight">Isle of Wight</a>, after going to England for medical treatment.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His body was taken back to the Cocos in 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="John_Sidney_Clunies-Ross">John Sidney Clunies-Ross</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: John Sidney Clunies-Ross"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Famiglia_Clunies-Ross2,_isole_Cocos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Famiglia_Clunies-Ross2%2C_isole_Cocos.jpg/250px-Famiglia_Clunies-Ross2%2C_isole_Cocos.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="257" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Famiglia_Clunies-Ross2%2C_isole_Cocos.jpg/330px-Famiglia_Clunies-Ross2%2C_isole_Cocos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Famiglia_Clunies-Ross2%2C_isole_Cocos.jpg/500px-Famiglia_Clunies-Ross2%2C_isole_Cocos.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1170" data-file-height="1506" /></a><figcaption>Clunies-Ross family, 1930s generation.</figcaption></figure><p>John Sidney Clunies-Ross was born in the Coco Islands on 13 November 1868, the son of George Clunies-Ross and Inin. Known as Tuan Ross, he inherited an economic disaster after a cyclone destroyed almost every house and coconut palm on <a href="/wiki/Home_Island" title="Home Island">Home Island</a> in November 1909.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, the Cocos islands served as a major base for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a>. John Sidney Clunies-Ross died of a heart attack during a Japanese bombing on the islands in August 1944. The British military took over control of Home Island until John Cecil Clunies-Ross returned to the Cocos on 6 July 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="John_Cecil_Clunies-Ross">John Cecil Clunies-Ross</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: John Cecil Clunies-Ross"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The title to the islands was claimed by the Ross family until 1978, when John Cecil Clunies-Ross (born 29 November 1928),<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> known as Tuan John,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sold them to the <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Commonwealth of Australia</a> for £2.5m ($4.75m)<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (February 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> under threat of <a href="/wiki/Expropriation" class="mw-redirect" title="Expropriation">expropriation</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the exception of his house on Home Island, which was eventually purchased by the government in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Commonwealth had already been administering the islands since November 1955, with the proclamation of the Cocos (Keeling) Island Act 1955.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>John C. Clunies-Ross eventually went bankrupt after the Australian government refused to give any business to his shipping line company. He then moved to <a href="/wiki/Perth" title="Perth">Perth</a> with his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/1984_Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands_status_referendum" title="1984 Cocos (Keeling) Islands status referendum">1984 referendum</a>, he campaigned for independence but the majority of the islanders chose integration with Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He died in Perth at the age of 92 on 13 September 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of 2007<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, John "Johnny" George Clunies-Ross (born 1957<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), the son of John C. Clunies-Ross, lived on the <a href="/wiki/West_Island,_Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands">West Island</a>, breeding <a href="/wiki/Clams" class="mw-redirect" title="Clams">clams</a>. He stated that he was initially frustrated with the 1978 transfer of the islands to Australia, but that he had changed his mind since then: "I was 21 and I'd been brought up to do the job. But even in the old man's time, it had become anachronistic. It had to change".<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_resident_magistrates">List of resident magistrates</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: List of resident magistrates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Resident magistrate<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Regnal name<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Native title<sup id="cite_ref-:5_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Life dates </th> <th>Entered office<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Left office<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td>John Clunies-Ross</td> <td>Clunies-Ross I </td> <td></td> <td>1786–1854</td> <td>1827</td> <td>1854 </td></tr> <tr> <td>John George Clunies-Ross</td> <td>Clunies-Ross II </td> <td>Tuan Pandai </td> <td>1823–1871</td> <td>1854</td> <td>1871 </td></tr> <tr> <td>George Clunies-Ross</td> <td>Clunies-Ross III </td> <td>Tuan Tinggi </td> <td>1842–1910</td> <td>1871</td> <td>1910 </td></tr> <tr> <td>John Sidney Clunies-Ross</td> <td>Clunies-Ross IV </td> <td>Tuan Ross </td> <td>1868–1944</td> <td>1910</td> <td>1944 </td></tr> <tr> <td>John Cecil Clunies-Ross</td> <td>Clunies-Ross V </td> <td>Tuan John </td> <td>1928–2021</td> <td>1946</td> <td>1978 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_administrative_heads_of_Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="List of administrative heads of Cocos (Keeling) Islands">List of administrative heads of Cocos (Keeling) Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Clunies_Ross" title="Ian Clunies Ross">Ian Clunies Ross</a>, prominent Australian scientist and administrator and relative of the Clunies-Ross family</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Clunies-Ross" title="Alfred Clunies-Ross">Alfred Clunies-Ross</a>, the first non-white rugby union international player and relative of the Clunies-Ross family</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulu_Cocos_Museum" title="Pulu Cocos Museum">Pulu Cocos Museum</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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C. (May 1835). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3h3ZAAAAMAAJ&q=Cocos%27+isles&pg=PA219">"The Cocos' Isles. Letter to the Editor, New Selna, Cocos' Isles, July 8th, 1834"</a>. <i>Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine. The Metropolitan, part 1</i>. Peck and Newton. pp. <span class="nowrap">219–</span>221.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Cocos%27+Isles.+Letter+to+the+Editor%2C+New+Selna%2C+Cocos%27+Isles%2C+July+8th%2C+1834&rft.btitle=Blackwoods+Edinburgh+Magazine.+The+Metropolitan%2C+part+1&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E219-%3C%2Fspan%3E221&rft.pub=Peck+and+Newton&rft.date=1835-05&rft.aulast=Ross&rft.aufirst=J.+C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3h3ZAAAAMAAJ%26q%3DCocos%2527%2Bisles%26pg%3DPA219&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClunies-Ross+family" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081120141048/http://uqconnect.net/~zzhsoszy/states/oceania/cocosislands.html">Cocos Island page</a> Genealogical Gleanings</li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://auth.wikimedia.org/loginwiki/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&oldid=1226825461">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clunies-Ross_family&oldid=1226825461</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:People_from_the_Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="Category:People from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands">People from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:History_of_the_Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="Category:History of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands">History of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:History_of_Christmas_Island" title="Category:History of Christmas Island">History of Christmas Island</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Scottish_diaspora" title="Category:Scottish diaspora">Scottish diaspora</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Families_of_Scottish_ancestry" title="Category:Families of Scottish ancestry">Families of Scottish ancestry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Kings_in_Asia" title="Category:Kings in Asia">Kings in Asia</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_incorporating_Cite_DNB_template" title="Category:Articles incorporating Cite DNB template">Articles incorporating Cite DNB template</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_short_description" title="Category:Articles with short description">Articles with short description</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_is_different_from_Wikidata" title="Category:Short description is different from Wikidata">Short description is different from Wikidata</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Use_dmy_dates_from_July_2019" title="Category:Use dmy dates from July 2019">Use dmy dates from July 2019</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_clarification_from_February_2021" title="Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2021">Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2021</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_containing_potentially_dated_statements_from_2007" title="Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2007">Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2007</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:All_articles_containing_potentially_dated_statements" title="Category:All articles containing potentially dated statements">All articles containing potentially dated statements</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 2 June 2024, at 01:56<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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