'''John Crawfurd'''
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ESL Council 1860-61 President<br />ESL Council 1861-62 President<br />ESL Council 1862-63 President [retiring]<br />ESL Council 1863-64 Vice President<br />ESL Council 1864-65 Vice President<br />ESL Council 1865-66 President<br />ESL Council 1866-67 President<br />ESL Council 1867-68 President [died May 68]<br />
=== House Notes ===
ESL why elected twice? were there two?<br />See 'The origin of the anthropological review' AR vol. 6, no. 23 (oct 1868): ... John Crawfurd, in the year 1858, became a Fellow of the Society, and was nominated as President on the same day ...[but according to records he joined in 1847 ...]<br /><br />Publications committee Nov 60; Committee to arrange Anniversary dinner 61; Committee to draw up report of Council for 1860; sub-committee to report on Mr Clarke's portraits Mar 62; Committee to confer with Anthropological society Nov 64<br /><br />27 Nov. 1860: Mr Crawfurd’s proposal was then put to the meeting, viz. That ladies be admitted as visitors – and after some discussion an amendment was moved by Prof. Pearson seconded by Mr Beale – that ladies be admitted to the meetings on all occasions specified by the Council.<br /><br />12 May 1868: The death early that morning of the President, Mr John Crawfurd, having been announced, it was resolved, ‘That, on the sad intelligence of the President’s death today, the Council be adjourned to Tuesday May 19th, at 4 o’clock and that special notice be sent to the Members of the Council.’<br />It was unanimously agreed that the ordinary meeting should not be held this evening, out of respect for the late President.<br /><br />1917 Keith articlePresidential address: 'a tall, vigorous, overpowering figure, a highlander from Islay, who can still speak and think in Gaelic, trained in medicine, but during his long life in the Far East turned linguist, governor and ambassador ...
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
John Crawfurd FRS (13 August 1783 – 11 May 1868) was a Scottish physician, colonial administrator and diplomat, and author. He is now best known for his work on Asian languages, his History of the Indian Archipelago, and his role in founding Singapore.<br />While Crawfurd produced work that was ethnological in nature over a period of half a century, the term "ethnology" had not even been coined when he began to write. Attention has been drawn to his latest work, from the 1860s, which was copious. It met much criticism at the time, and has also been scrutinised in the 21st century.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1830