See also:JOHN See also:CRAWFURD (1783-1868)
, Scottish orientalist, was See also:born in the See also:island of See also:Islay, See also:Scotland, on the 13th of See also:August 1783
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After studying at See also:Edinburgh he became surgeon in the See also:East See also:India See also:Company's service
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He afterwards resided for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time at See also:Penang, and during the See also:British occupation of See also:Java from 1811 to 1817 his See also:local knowledge made him invaluable to the See also:government
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In 1821 he served as See also:envoy to See also:Siam and See also:Cochin-See also:China, and in 1823 became See also:governor of See also:Singapore
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His last See also:political service inthe East was a difficult See also:mission to See also:Burma in 1827
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In 1861 he was elected See also:president of the Ethnological Society
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He died at See also:South See also:Kensington on the rrth of May 1868
.
See also:Crawfurd wrote a See also:History of the See also:Indian See also:Archipelago (182o), Descriptive See also:Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries (1856), See also:Journal of an See also:Embassy to the See also:Court of See also:Ava in 1827 (1829), Journal of an Embassy to the Courts of Siam and Cochin-China, exhibiting a view of the actual See also:State of these Kingdoms (183o), Inquiry into the See also:System of See also:Taxation in India, Letters on the Interior of India, an attack on the newspaper See also:stamp-tax and the See also:duty on See also:paper entitled Taxes on Knowledge (1836), and a valuable See also:Malay See also:grammar and dictionary (1852)
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