Epithet: parliamentary candidate
Epithet: of Add MS 32688
Epithet: Messenger to the Great Seal
1803 assistant surgeon in the East India Company's Bengal medical service; 1808 moved to Penang; 1811 served in Java expedition; 1811-1816 administrator in Java, including resident at the central court of the sultan of Jogjakarta; 1817 fellow of the Royal Society; 1821-1822 head of mission to Siam and Vietnam; 1823-1826 resident at Singapore; 1826 civil commissioner in Rangoon; 1826-1827 head of mission to the Burmese court at Ava; 1861 president of the Ethnological Society; 1868 president of the Straits Settlements Association.
Epithet: orientalist and colonial administrator