Louis Thomas Gunnis Leonowens was a British subject who grew up and worked in Siam. Leonowens served as an officer in the Siamese Royal Cavalry, an agent for the Borneo Company in the teak trade of Northern Thailand, and founded a Thai trading company that still bears his name, Louis T. Leonowens Ltd.
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Anna Leonowens in 1862
Photo of Louis Leonowens from 1865. Here Louis is pictured standing closest to the tree beside Prince Chulalongkorn
Inthawichayanon of Chiang Mai
Caroline Isabell Knox, half-Siamese wife of Louis Leonowens
An office of Louis T. Leonowens Ltd in 1908
The Louis T. Leonowens warehouse remains in Bangkok's Captain Bush Lane as of 2021
Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, LondonIn their orbit 2
Founders born in the 1850s 6
About this person
Category
Founders
Type
Founder
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1856 to 1919 · aged 62
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