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Patterson, George N. (George Neilson), 1920-2012

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Personal name headingPatterson, George N. (George Neilson), 1920-2012
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Variant(s)Patterson, George Neilson, 1920-2012
Associated countryScotland Tibet China
Associated placeShanghai, China
Asia
Birth date19200819
Death date20121228
Place of birthRedding, Scotland
Place of deathLesmahagow, Scotland
Field of activityJournalism Christianity Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Politics and government China--Politics and government Drug abuse counseling
AffiliationMinority Rights Group BBC World Service Missionary School of Medicine
Profession or occupationJournalists Missionaries Drug abuse counselors
Found inRequiem for Tibet, 1990: t.p. (George N. Patterson)
LC in RLIN, 1-28-92 (hdg.: Patterson, George Neilson, 1920-; usage: George N. Patterson)
The Scotsman, 15 January, 2013: obit., p. 39 (George Patterson, journalist, Tibetan specialist and drug addiction consultant; born 19 August, 1920, in Redding, Falkirk; died 28 December, 2012 in Lesmahagow; wrote widely on the Far East; became a leading authority on Tibet and Chinese domestic politics; helped his wife with her revolutionary treatment of drug addicts; George Neilson Patterson; took instruction at the Missionary School of Medicine in London; wrote for the Daily Telegraph; broadcast on the BBC World Service (Asian Affairs in the British Press); set up the Minority Rights Group)
Associated languageeng