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John Crawfurd FRS (13 August 1783 – 11 May 1868) was a Scottish physician, colonial administrator, diplomat, and author who served as the second and last Resident of Singapore . Early life. He was born on Islay, in Argyll, Scotland, the son of Samuel Crawfurd, a physician, and Margaret Campbell; and was educated at the school in Bowmore.
May 9, 2024 · John Crawfurd (born August 13, 1783, Islay Island, Argyll [now in Argyll and Bute], Scotland—died May 11, 1868, London, England) was a Scottish Orientalist and East India Company employee who successfully combined scholarship and diplomatic abilities.
John Crawfurd was the second British Resident of Singapore from 1823 to 1826. He implemented Raffles's vision, promoted free trade, and negotiated the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance with the local chiefs.
Learn about John Crawfurd, a 19th-century British colonial official who wrote extensively on ethnology, history and politics of Southeast Asia. Explore his life, career and achievements in Singapore, Java and India.
May 27, 2014 · Learn about John Crawfurd, a Scottish physician and East India Company officer who collected Malay manuscripts in Southeast Asia. Explore his grammar and dictionary of Malay, and the digitised manuscripts he sold to the British Library.
Sep 13, 2021 · This article addresses this blind spot by recovering the aborted project of British settler colonialism in India through the writings of its most prominent advocate, John Crawfurd.
This chapter examines how the Malay Peninsula shaped the ethnological and historical writings of the nineteenth-century British scholar-administrator of Southeast Asia, John Crawfurd (1783-1868), who served as the second British Resident of Singapore (1823-6).
