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   * **1877**: Mula berkhidmat sebagai peguam.
-  * **1882 (Ogos)**: Menyertai Perkhidmatan Kolonial British. Dilantik Chief Magistrate and Commissioner of Lands di Selangor. Di dalam ucapan perpisahan beliau menceritakan sedikit keadaan di ketika baru tiba di Taiping ketika itu: //"I came to Taiping in August of that year (1882), to stay for a few days with the late Sir William Maxwell, then Assistant Resident of Perak; and, if I were now to reconstruct Taiping, as it then was, it would be recognizable by few of those present to-night. If I remember rightly, where the Residency now stands all was jungle; the famous golf course; the circular road; the rifle range; also all jungle or Chinese mines - of buildings the Assistant Residency occupied a slightly higher site than that now occupied by the Secretary to Resident's quarters; Colonel Walker lived, I think, almost where he does now; as also did Mr. Caulfeild; but both of course in very different houses. The finest Government quarters were then built only of timber, roofed with ataps, and the tiny Government Offices, occupying almost the site of the present New Club, were of the flimsiest description."// (The Straits Times, 13 November 1903, Page 2: {{ :akhbar:straitstimes19031113-1-2-3.pdf ||}}[[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19031113-1.2.3|"MR. RODGER'S FAREWELL"]]).
+  * **1882 (Ogos)**: Tiba di Taiping, Perak, untuk menyertai Perkhidmatan Kolonial British. Beliau pernah menceritakan keadaan ketika beliau baru tiba di Taiping ketika itu: //"I came to Taiping in August of that year (1882), to stay for a few days with the late Sir William Maxwell, then Assistant Resident of Perak; and, if I were now to reconstruct Taiping, as it then was, it would be recognizable by few of those present to-night. If I remember rightly, where the Residency now stands all was jungle; the famous golf course; the circular road; the rifle range; also all jungle or Chinese mines - of buildings the Assistant Residency occupied a slightly higher site than that now occupied by the Secretary to Resident's quarters; Colonel Walker lived, I think, almost where he does now; as also did Mr. Caulfeild; but both of course in very different houses. The finest Government quarters were then built only of timber, roofed with ataps, and the tiny Government Offices, occupying almost the site of the present New Club, were of the flimsiest description."// (The Straits Times, 13 November 1903, Page 2: {{ :akhbar:straitstimes19031113-1-2-3.pdf ||}}[[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19031113-1.2.3|"MR. RODGER'S FAREWELL"]]).
+  * **1882 (September)**: Dilantik Chief Magistrate and Commissioner of Lands di Selangor: //"In September, 1882, I went to Selangor, as Chief Magistrate and Commissioner of Lands, and the changes in Selangor, especially in Kuala Lumpur, have been even more striking than those in Perak and Taiping. In Perak there were a few cart roads - not very good ones - e.g. the old road from Taiping to Kuala Kangsar, from Taiping to Matang, and from Taiping to Kamunting; but in Selangor there was only one, that from Kuala Lumpur to Damansara, which has earned for itself a deathless notoriety, among those who remember it, for the steepness of its gradients and the depth of its chasms. In those days the only motor-car was the elephant, and as late as 1884 elephants were used to convey the then Governor (Sir F. Weld) from Tanjong Malim through to Perak. The present plain at Kuala Lumpur was then covered with Chinese vegetable gardens; the famous Lake grounds were awaiting Mr. Venning's genius to convert jungle and abandoned tapioca land into perhaps the most charming public gardens in the East; while, where Mr. Spooner's fine Government Offices now stand, there was a row of Chinese huts in such a dilapidated condition that I remember on one occasion, during a storm, half of them were blown down. Incidentally it may be of interest to Official sybarites of today to know that, although my official appointment was the second highest in the State, my only quarters for several months consisted of a bedroom in the old Rest House at Kuala Lumpur (where the Museum now stands); and that I usually shared the dining room with a number of hilarious Cornish "Captains" who were then the usual mining prospectors employed by European Companies interested in these States."// (The Straits Times, 13 November 1903, Page 2: {{ :akhbar:straitstimes19031113-1-2-3.pdf ||}}[[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19031113-1.2.3|"MR. RODGER'S FAREWELL"]]).
   * **1884**: Dilantik sebagai Residen Selangor, menggantikan [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Swettenham|Frank Swettenham]]. \\ {{:gambar:pembesar-british-1886.png?600|Para pembesar British, 1886}} \\ //"A graphic embodiment of these personal, knowledgeable networks of colonial