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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Crawfurd    
First Name(s)  John    
Year of Birth  1783    
Year of Death  1868    
Entry  Son of Samuel Crawfurd : born Aug. 13, 1783 : educated at Bowmore, and in medicine at Edinburgh : from 1803, served as an Army medical officer, for 5 years, chiefly in Upper India : transferred to Penang : studied the Malays : was with Lord Minto in the expedition to Java, 1811 : employed in diplomatic offices there, 1811-7 : wrote a History of the Indian Archipelago, 1820 : sent, in 1821, as Envoy to Siam and Cochin China : administered the Government of Singapore, 1823-6 : Commissioner of Pegu, 1826 : Envoy to the Court of Ava : retired to England, 1827 : wrote narratives of his missions, A Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language, 1852 : A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and adjacent Countries, 1856 : also, papers on ethnology for scientific journals : took an active part in Geographical and Ethnological Societies : was an unrivalled authority on the Eastern Archipelago : died May 11 , 1868     
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