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Identity area
Reference code
GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/7-RAS BMM/7/2
Publication status
Published
Level of description
Subseries
Date(s)
- 1939 - 1943 (Creation)
Context area
Name of creator
_Glubb_
_John Bagot_
_1897-1986_
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
(1823-)
Biographical history
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia'. It continues as a forum for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.
John Pinches
(c.1841-1969)
Biographical history
John Pinches Ltd was a London-based medallic business originally founded in the 1840s by Thomas Ryan Pinches and his younger brother John Pinches. In 1940, the company was registered as John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd. The company was sold to Franklin Mint of Philadelphia, USA, in 1969.
_Margoliouth_
_D.S._
_1858-1940_
_Willingdon_
_Freeman Freeman-Thomas_
_1866-1941_
_vicomte_
_Woolley_
_Leonard_
_1880-1960_
_Symons_
_A.J.A._
_1900-1941_
Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb
(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
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence concerned with the conferment of the Burton Memorial Medal on John Glubb.
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Language of material
- English
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