Rounsevelle Wildman

Rounsevelle Wildman (1864–1901) was an American diplomat, journalist and author. Born in Batavia, New York, he edited newspapers in the West before entering the consular service. He was consul at Singapore from 1890 to 1893 and consul-general at Hong Kong from 1897, where in 1898 he acted as intermediary between the Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo and Admiral Dewey on the eve of the Spanish-American War. His books, drawn from his years in the Straits Settlements, include Tales of the Malayan Coast and The Panglima Muda, a novel of Malay life. He was lost with his family in the wreck of the City of Rio de Janeiro off San Francisco.