Richard James Wilkinson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard James Wilkinson

British colonial governor

Date of Birth: 29-May-1867

Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

Date of Death: 05-Dec-1941

Profession: orientalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Richard James Wilkinson (29 May 1867 – 5 December 1941) was a British Colonial administrator, scholar of Malay, and historian.
The son of a British Consul in Greece, Richard James Wilkinson, was born in 1867 in Salonika (Thessaloniki), Greece.
After Felsted School 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 (JMBRAS).
On 7 November 1900 Wilkinson presented a collection of Malay manuscripts and printed books to the University of Cambridge Library.
He was appointed CMG in 1912.