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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...
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  • Crawfurd, a variant of Crawford, is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Crawfurd Adamson (born 1953), noted figurative artist...
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  • John William Frederick Arthur Crawfurd (15 November 1878 – 22 June 1939) was an Irish cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm fast-medium...
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    Farquhar's dismissal on 1 May 1823, to be succeeded as Resident by Dr John Crawfurd without the knowledge of Farquhar himself. He remained in Singapore...
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    of the Malay language, With a Preliminary Dissertation, Volume 2, By John Crawfurd, published in 1852. It is traditionally made by mixing anchovies and...
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    by John Crawfurd, an efficient and frugal administrator, as the new governor. Farquhar later died in Perth, Scotland. On 7 June 1823, John Crawfurd signed...
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  • into America Jack Crawford (disambiguation) John Crawfurd (1783–1868), Scottish colonial administrator John Herbert Crawford (disambiguation) Crawfordjohn...
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  • Gibbs Crawfurd (1732 – 13 October 1793) was a British Member of Parliament and administrator. He was the eldest son of John Crawfurd, a barrister from...
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    is signed". HistorySG. National Library Board. Bastin, John. "Malayan Portraits: John Crawfurd", in Malaya, vol.3 (December 1954), pp.697–698. J C M Khoo;...
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    Sir John Fearns Nicoll KCMG KStJ (26 April 1899 – 12 January 1981) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1952 to...
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    "was furth of this realme" and his wife Margaret was at Greenock. A John Crawfurd of "Auchinbothe" was arrested and tried, however he was found innocent...
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  • better when this place [Earth] knows him no more. In 1860, the physician John Crawfurd and the anthropologist James Hunt identified the racial stereotype of...
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  • Brodie, 1st Baronet 1855–56 John Conolly Sir James Clark 1861–? John Crawfurd 1863–65 John Lubbock 1865–68 John Crawfurd 1868–69 Thomas Huxley Before...
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  • describe the immigrants from Gujarat Presidency and Coromandel coast. John Crawfurd (1856) mentioned that the term "Kling" was used by the Malays and the...
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    Prester John is a 1910 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It tells the story of the young Scotsman David Crawfurd and his adventures in...
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    December 1822 or January 1823, and it was first published in an article by John Crawfurd as an engraving made in June 1828. The plan is an idealised scheme of...
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    Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1841) May 27 – John Crawfurd, Scottish physician, colonial administrator, diplomat and author. Last...
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    the Cambodian kingdom lost its national sovereignty. British agent John Crawfurd states: "...the King of that ancient Kingdom is ready to throw himself...
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  • Singh including Bachu Singh. His rebellion was swiftly put down by John Crawfurd and he was jailed. He was restored to his "forfeited" zamindari in 1790...
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    Vietnamese population of the island but not the Khmer. The British envoy John Crawfurd en route to Siam from Singapore in 1822 made a stop at Phú Quốc which...
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    suzerainty over large portions of Laos and Cambodia. In 1821, Briton John Crawfurd was sent to negotiate a new trade agreement with Siam – the first sign...
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    be offered to any country. That same year, East India Company agent John Crawfurd made another attempt at contact, but was only allowed to disembark in...
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    slightly throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries. British diplomat John Crawfurd, visiting in 1822, estimated its population at no more than 50,000....
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    visible in the early 19th century and was described by the Resident John Crawfurd. In 1928, several pieces of gold ornaments dating to the mid-14th century...
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  • Oswald John Frederick Crawfurd CMG (18 March 1834 – 31 January 1909) was a British journalist, man of letters and diplomat. He served over 24 years as...
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    still visible in the early 19th century and described by the Resident John Crawfurd who also found indication of ruins of an ancient orchard, shards of...
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    suspicion arising from the Siamese invasion of Kedah in 1821. In 1822, John Crawfurd undertook a mission to the court of King Rama II to determine Siam's...
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    burthen, with an average of 92 lasts (165.6–184 metric tons). In 1856, John Crawfurd noted that Javanese shipbuilding activity still existed on the north...
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    Guru was the name for Shiva in rest of Southeast Asia. According to John Crawfurd, the word Batara is derived from avatara, both in "sense and orthography"...
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    his fore Feet on the Carcase, and squeezes it flat. The journal of John Crawfurd records another method of execution by elephant in the kingdom of Cochinchina...
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