Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sir Richard James Wilkinson (1867 5 December 1941) 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 (Thessaloniki), 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 (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.. }
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- Richard_James_Wilkinson abstract "Sir Richard James Wilkinson (1867 5 December 1941) 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 (Thessaloniki), 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 (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.".
- Richard_James_Wilkinson comment "Sir Richard James Wilkinson (1867 5 December 1941) 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 (Thessaloniki), 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 (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.".