Tunku Ibrahim, the Regent, listened without comment and after a short silence, he ordered Tunku to returned to England to be admitted to the English Bar.

His eldest brother, Tunku Ibrahim, was still the regent and he told Tunku that he was in disgrace for failing the Bar examinations in London.

On July 1, Tunku and a delegation of Alliance members called on Sultan Ibrahim of Johor and explained the Alliance's views to him on the holding of elections, the need for an elected majority and the importance of drafting a new Constitution for the country.

Although targeted at people like former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the resolution was eventually withdrawn because it would have declared party personages such as its founder, Dato ' Onn Jaafar, and the first Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, as traitors to the party and the Malay race.

# Tunku Ismail ibni Sultan Ibrahim ( Crown Prince or Tunku Mahkota of Johor ; later Sultan 1959 – 1981 ).

Sultan Iskandar's reign lasted for almost 29 years until his death in January 2010, upon which he was succeeded by his oldest son, Tunku Ibrahim.

Sultan Iskandar ( known as Tunku Mahmud Iskandar until 1981 ) was the third son of Sultan Ismail ibni Sultan Ibrahim by Sultanah Ungku Tun Aminah binti Ungku Paduka Bena Sri Maharaja Utama Ahmad, and was born on 8 April 1932 in Istana Semayam, Johor Bahru.

In 1956, Tunku Mahmud married Josephine Trevorrow, from Cornwall, United Kingdom, with whom he had four children, including the crown prince, Tunku Ibrahim Ismail.

On 8 April 2006, the Sultan appointed his grandson Tunku Ismail Ibrahim – the son of the Tunku Mahkota – as the Raja Muda during an investure in conjunction on his birthday.

Similarly, his eldest son, Tunku Ibrahim Ismail, was convicted in the 1980s of shooting dead a man in a nightclub during a feud, but was quickly pardoned.

His son the Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ibrahim Ismail was proclaimed as the next Sultan of Johor also on 23 January.

Some of his children and grandchildren are also similarly named after his forebears, notably his older son, Tunku Ibrahim, who was named after the Sultan's grandfather, Sultan Ibrahim.

During his term as the Tunku Mahkota, Tunku Ibrahim occasionally acted as the state's regent and was delegated a few state duties whenever the Sultan was travelling overseas.

In his free time, Tunku Ibrahim spent most of his time in hunting and horseracing.

Tunku Ibrahim acted as one of the three signatories when Sultan Abu Bakar promogulated the Johor state constitution in April 1895.

The Kedah Regent had instructed Tunku to study Law at Cambridge so that he could make use of it in the civil service when he returned.

Although Tunku wanted to remain in Kedah, the Regent, despite his mild manner, was all-powerful.

Tunku's eldest surviving brother, Tunku Badlishah, had succeeded Tunku Mahmud as Regent in 1937 when the latter died.

At about 9 o ' clock on the night of invasion, Syed Omar telephoned Tunku and told him that the Regent had decided to evacuate the 77 year-old Sultan to Penang, and thence to Singapore.

Disagreeing with the decisions to evacuate the Sultan, Tunku telephoned the Regent and urged him to cancel the order.

The Regent was very angry and he threatened to arrest Tunku, Tunku will be arrested on 4 o ' clock in the evening.

Tunku said nothing of the conversation with the Regent to his father of his wife.

The next morning, Tunku took the Regent and his family to Sidim where they were given accommodation in other small houses.

The Japanese Military Governor of Kedah an assuming office appointed another of Tunku's brothers, Tunku Mohamed Jewa, to be a temporary Regent until the Sultan returned to Alor Setar.

On 10 May 1981, Tunku Mahmud was appointed as the Regent of Johor following the death of his father, and was sworn in as Sultan a day later, shortly before his father was buried.

However, some eyewitnesses challenged the legitimacy of Tunku Mahmud's reappointment as the Tunku Mahkota, by arguing that they witnessed Sultan Ismail already having lapsed into coma at the time of his appointment as the Regent.

Born on 16 May 1911 in Seri Menanti, Negeri Sembilan, she was the eldest daughter of Tunku Besar Burhanuddin ibni Almarhum Tuanku Antah ( sometime Regent of Negeri Sembilan ).

In 1937, Tunku Ismail, who was then Regent of Johor, appointed Onn as his private secretary and entrusted him to run the Johore Pavilion at the world fair in San Francisco the following year.

The government declared a state of emergency, and a National Operations Council, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, took power from the government of Tunku Abdul Rahman, who in September 1970 was forced to retire in favour of Abdul Razak.

Nonetheless, Malaysia was active in the opposition to apartheid that saw South Africa quit the Commonwealth in 1961, and was a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in 1967 and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ) in 1969, with the Tunku as its first Secretary-General in 1971.

Singapore was a part of Malaysia for two years ( 1963-65 ), but it ultimately was asked by Tunku to secede after increased racial tensions due to the election campaigns in 1964.

The concept of a bumiputra ethnic group in Malaysia was coined by activist Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Prime Ministers Clement Attlee and George Grenville have both been members, as was the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah fifth President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.

Despite his prominence in UMNO, Mahathir was not a candidate in the 1959 election, ruling himself out following a disagreement with then Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.

This was a symbolic gesture which emulated the actions of Malaya's first Prime Minister, the late Tunku Abdul Rahman, when the latter declared independence from the British in 1957.

The park was named in honour the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, AC, CH ( Jawi: تونكو عبدالرحمن ڤوترا الهاج ابن المرحوم سلطان عبدالحميد حاليم شه, Chinese: 東姑阿都拉曼 ) ( February 8, 1903 – December 6, 1990 ) was Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955, and the country's first Prime Minister from independence in 1957.

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj was born on February 8, 1903, in Alor Setar, Kedah.

Tunku was the 7th son of Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, the 24th ruler of Kedah.

As soon as he was old enough, Tunku ran outside the palace enclosure to play with boys of his own age who lived in the town.

When Tunku was four years old, he was vaccinated.

When Tunku was about six years old, one day, as he was toasting keropok, ( fish fritters ) in his mother's kitchen, a lit fragment of firewood fell on his left ankle and burnt him.

But the wound turned septic and it was three years before it healed completely and Tunku was able to resume his football games outside the palace.

When Tunku was nine, he was circumcised together with seven other boys who were his playmates from town.

In the afternoon, Tunku was taught to read the Al-Quran.

When Tunku's eldest brother, Tunku Yusuf returned to Alor Setar from England, he realised that Tunku was not making any progress in his studies.