Richard James Wilkinson

Richard James Wilkinson
CMG
Governor of Sierra Leone
In office
9 March 1916 – 4 May 1922
MonarchGeorge V
Preceded bySir Edward Marsh Merewether
Succeeded bySir Alexander Ransford Slater
12th Colonial Secretary of Straits Settlements
In office
1911–1916
MonarchGeorge V
GovernorSir Arthur Young
Preceded byEdward Lewis Brockman
Succeeded bySir Frederick Seton James
British Resident at Negeri Sembilan
In office
1910–1911
MonarchGeorge V
Preceded byDouglas Graham Campbell
Succeeded byArthur Henry Lemon
Personal details
Born29 May 1867[1]
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died5 December 1941(1941-12-05) (aged 74)[1]
Izmir, Turkey
ProfessionColonial Administrator

Richard James Wilkinson CMG (29 May 1867 – 5 December 1941)[1][2] was a British colonial administrator, scholar of Malay, and historian.[3] The son of a British consul, Richard James Wilkinson was born in 1867 in Salonika (Thessaloniki) in the Ottoman Empire.[1][4] He studied at Felsted School and was an undergraduate of Trinity College, Cambridge.[4] He was multilingual and had a command of French, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish, and later, Malay and Hokkien which he qualified in, in 1889, while a cadet after joining the Straits Settlements Civil Service.[4] He was an important contributor to the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS).[5] On 7 November 1900 Wilkinson presented a collection of Malay manuscripts and printed books to the University of Cambridge Library.[6] He was appointed CMG in 1912.[7]

  1. ^ a b c d "Richard James Wilkinson". nlb.gov.sg. 2016.
  2. ^ "Wilkinson, Richard James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74947. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Richard James Wilkinson (1867–1941): a man of parts by Gullick, J. M. 2001., Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 74, no. 1: 19–42.
  4. ^ a b c Naoki, Soda (September 2001). "The Malay World in Textbooks: The Transmission of Colonial Knowledge in British Malaya" (PDF). Southeast Asian Studies. 39 (2).
  5. ^ Tiew, Wai Sin (July 1998). "History of the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (JMBRAS) 1878–1997: An Overview" (PDF). Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science. 43-60-Sc. 3 (1).
  6. ^ Sayle, Charles Edward (1 October 1915). "Annals of Cambridge University Library, 1278–1900" (PDF). The Library. s3-VI (24). University Library, Cambridge: 308–345.[dead link]
  7. ^ "No. 28617". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 1912. p. 4299.