Robert Crichton Wyllie
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The Honourable Robert Crichton Wyllie |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office March 26, 1845 – October 19, 1865 |
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| Monarch |
Kamehameha III Kamehameha IV Kamehameha V |
| Preceded by | Gerrit P. Judd |
| Succeeded by | Charles de Varigny |
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| Born |
October 13, 1798 Dunlop, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Died | October 19, 1865 (aged 67) Honolulu, Oahu, Kingdom of Hawaii |
| Resting place | Mauna ʻAla Royal Mausoleum |
| Nationality |
Kingdom of Hawaii United Kingdom Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Residence | Rosebank, Nuanuu Valley |
| Occupation | Physician, Businessman, Politician |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
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Robert Crichton Wyllie (October 13, 1798 – October 19, 1865) was a Scottish physician and businessman. He also served two decades as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Wyllie was born October 13, 1798 in an area called Hazelbank in Dunlop parish of East Ayrshire, Scotland. His father was Alexander Wyllie. His mother, Janet Crichton, traced her descent from James Crichton. He attended the University of Glasgow, earning a medical diploma by the time he was 20. He left as a ship surgeon, intending to practice in Russia. He got as far as Valparaíso in Chile in 1818, then set up in practice in nearby Coquimbo. After a few years he gave up medical practice and became a partner in a successful trading business. He took a small yacht, Daule, to Kolkata, India (then called Calcutta), from 1824 to 1826, stopping in the Hawaiian islands en route. His cousin William Edward Petty Hartnell had settled near Monterey, California since 1822, taking the name Don Guillermo and a Spanish wife.
Wyllie returned to England in 1830, and continued to grow his fortune in banking with a partner named Lyall. He joined the expensive Reform Club in London. In 1842 he left for Mexico to investigate some of his investments in a group called the Spanish American Bondholders. Mexico was in financial trouble from the Texas Revolution and had essentially mortgaged vast amounts of land. His cousin Hartnell provided detailed reports encouraging British settlement of California. He was involved with Manuel Micheltorena, governor of Alta California, and Wyllie proposed a plan to buy land in Sacramento Valley and colonize California in 1843.
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