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On the Theory of the Origin of Species by Natural Selection in the Struggle for Life

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Crawfurd, John

▪ British scholar and diplomat
born August 13, 1783, Islay Island, Argyll [now in Argyll and Bute], Scotland
died May 11, 1868, London, England

      Scottish Orientalist and East India Company employee who successfully combined scholarship and diplomatic abilities.

      Trained as a doctor in Edinburgh, Crawfurd was first appointed, at age 20, to the North-West Provinces of India. He was transferred in 1808 to Penang (Pinang), off the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, and there he developed the keen interest in Malay language, culture, and history that was to illuminate much of his later scholarly work. When the British took Java from the Dutch in 1811, Crawfurd's familiarity with Indonesian peoples led to his appointment there in a series of civil and political posts (including that of resident at the court of the sultan of Yogyakarta) during the occupation; he continued to pursue his studies of insular Southeast Asia. While in England on leave from 1817, he wrote a monumental History of the Indian Archipelago, 3 vol. (1820).

      Returning to India in 1820, Crawfurd was at once appointed by the marquess of Hastings to lead a diplomatic and trade mission to the courts of Thailand and Vietnam; he later published richly descriptive accounts (Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Courts of Siam and Cochin China [1828]). In 1823 Crawfurd succeeded Sir Stamford Raffles as resident of the fledgling settlement of Singapore; during a period of rapid population growth, Crawfurd administered it firmly and with fairness until 1826. He was appointed first British resident at the court of Ava in 1827, at the conclusion of the first Anglo-Burmese War and at a time of great difficulty in relations with Burma (Myanmar). Though he was able to remain there only briefly, he later published an important account of the kingdom, Journal of an Embassy to the Court of Ava (1829).

      Retiring to England, Crawfurd stood unsuccessfully for Parliament four times in the 1830s. He devoted the remainder of his long life substantially to continued scholarly work on Southeast Asia, publishing his Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language, 2 vol. (1852), and a Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries (1856), which remains a major repository of information on early 19th-century maritime Southeast Asia.

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Источник: Crawfurd, John

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