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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 (b. 1783, Scotland–d. 1868, England) was the second British Resident of Singapore, holding office from 9 June 1823 to 14 August 1826. 1 He was instrumental in implementing some of the key elements of Stamford Raffles’s vision for Singapore, and for laying the foundation for the economic growth of Singapore. 2 Although the ...
John Crawfurd, the 19th-century British colonial administrator, was known for his insightful writings on ethnology and history in the Malay Peninsula. Wilbert Wong examines the ideas of this visionary scholar and thinker. Portrait of John Crawfurd, 1857. Courtesy of the National Museum of Singapore, National Heritage Board.
May 27, 2014 · John Crawfurd (1783-1868) was a Scottish physician who joined the East India Company in 1803. In 1808 he arrived in Penang, where he began his studies of Malay, and in 1811 he accompanied Lord Minto and Thomas Stamford Raffles on the British invasion of Java, where he served as Resident of Yogyakarta until the British withdrawal in 1816.
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).
