People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

16 December, 1899
Devizes, Wiltshire, England

Death

11 January, 1996 (aged 96)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Cause of Death

heart disease

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• English

Passenger Ship

• Orontes (1910)

Education

• University of Western Australia
• Oxford University

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• philologist
• schoolteacher
• university teacher

Awards

• Lady Hackett prize for classics (University of Western Australia)
• Hackett bursaries (University of Western Australia)
• Nubar Pasha Armenian scholarship (Oxford University)
• Knight Bachelor
• Gold Medal (Royal Asiatic Society)
• Denis Sinor medal (Royal Asiatic Society)

Key Organisations

• British Academy
• Philological Society (UK)
• Royal Asiatic Society
• Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Society for Afghan Studies
• Ancient India and Iran Trust

Workplaces

• Guildford Grammar School (WA)
• University of Western Australia (classics)
• University of London
• Cambridge University (UK)
• Royal Institute of International Affairs