Sultan Hussein Shah was the seventeenth Sultan of Johor. He ruled Johor from 1819 to 1835. In the dispute regarding the succession to the throne of Johor following his father's death, Hussein Shah allowed a British settlement in Singapore to wrest the throne from his brother, Tengku Abdul Rahman, with the help of the British. Wikipedia
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