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Agreement on the Recipient of 1931 award

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GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/4-RAS BMM/4/1-RAS BMM/4/1/6

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Published

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Extent and medium

1 piece handwritten

Date(s)

  • 3rd Feb 1931 (Creation)

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Name of creator

(1895-1971)

Biographical history

Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb was a Scottish historian on Orientalism, teaching first at the School of Oriental Studies, London, and subsequently at the University of Oxford before moving to Harvard University in 1955. He was a trustee of the Gibb Memorial Trust.

Repository

Royal Asiatic Society Archives

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Scope and content

Signed note to state that the Committee had unanimously agreed to confer the Burton Memorial Medal on Mr Bertram S. Thomas. Signed by D.S. Margoliouth, N.M. Penzer and Hamilton Gibb.

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Language of material

  • English
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