Richard James Wilkinson
Historian, Politician
1867 – 1941
Who was Richard James Wilkinson?
Sir Richard James Wilkinson was a Colonial administrator, a Malay scholar and historian.
The son of a British Consul in Greece, Richard James Wilkinson, was born in 1867 in Salonika, Greece.
He was an undergraduate of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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.
He was an important contributor to the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Asiatic Society.
On 7 November 1900 Wilkinson presented a collection of Malay manuscripts and printed books to the University of Cambridge Library.
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