# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-james-wilkinson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:15:19.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-james-wilkinson"
name: "Richard James Wilkinson"
slug: "richard-james-wilkinson"
description: "Richard James Wilkinson was a British colonial administrator, scholar of Malay, and historian. The son of a British consul, Richard James Wilkinson was born in 1867 in Salonika (Thessaloniki) in the Ottoman Empire. He studied at Felsted School and 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 Royal 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."
tagline: "British colonial governor (1867-1941)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1867-05-29"
deathDate: "1941-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.004176
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "jan Wisa Sen Wikinson"
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    title: "ريتشارد جيمس ويلكنسون"
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    title: "Richard James Wilkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_James_Wilkinson"
    title: "Richard James Wilkinson"
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    title: "Richard James Wilkinson"
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  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_James_Wilkinson"
    title: "Richard James Wilkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_James_Wilkinson"
    title: "Richard James Wilkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4120852"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump