| LC control no. | n 50035168 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hill, Richard, 1901-1996 |
| Variant(s) | Hill, R. L. (Richard Leslie), 1901-1996 Hill, Richard Leslie, 1901-1996 |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Associated place | Sudan Nigeria |
| Birth date | 1901-02 |
| Death date | 1996-03-21 |
| Place of birth | Ramsbury (England) |
| Place of death | Oxford (England) |
| Field of activity | Sudan--History--19th century Sudan--Biography Middle East--Study and teaching Sudan--Administration |
| Affiliation | University of Durham. School of Oriental Studies Abdullahi Bayero College University College of Khartoum St. Edmund Hall (University of Oxford) |
| Profession or occupation | Middle East specialists Historians History teachers Colonial administrators |
| Found in | His Toryism and the people ... 1929: t.p. (R.L. Hill) Modernization in the Sudan, 1985: t.p. (Richard Hill) p. 7 (Richard Leslie Hill; b. 1907) Phone call to publisher, 07-06-94 (Richard Leslie Hill; b. 02-18-1901) The Independent, 3 Apr. 1996 obit. (Richard Leslie Hill, colonial civil servant and historian; born Feb. 1901 at Ramsbury, Wiltshire; died 21 Mar. 1996 in Oxford; the seminal part of his life was spent in the Sudan Civil Service) Hand-list of Arabic manuscripts and lithographs with accessions since 193, third draft, 1966, amended 1973: title page (School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham, Sudan Archive) introduction (Richard Hill, School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham) Taylor & Francis Online, Middle Eastern Studies, volume 33, issue 1, 1997, pages 193-195, Richard Hill (1901-1996): in memoriam, viewed January 27, 2020 (Richard Hill, a member of Middle Eastern Studies editorial board since its foundation in 1965; studied at St Augustine's College, Canterbury, where he went on to train as an Anglican Benedictine; continued at Oxford University's St Edmund's Hall, B.Litt. 1926; the following year he joined the Sudan administration, served there until 1945, mostly in railways; seconded to Khartoum University College, taught Middle Eastern history for another four years; numerous publications, starting with Bibliography of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from th earliest times to 1937 (1939); established the Sudan Archive at Durham University (1957, just after Sudan independence and ending of Anglo-Egyptian Condominium in 1956); lecturer in Near Eastern history at Durham University from 1949 until retirement in 1966; his major scholarly contribution centred on history of the Turco-Egyptian Sudan, the so-called Turkiyya, monograph Egypt in the Sudan, 1820-1881 (1959); author of other works on nineteenth-century Sudan; author of A biographical dictionary of the Sudan (1951, 2nd edition 1965); final work written with Peter Hogg, A Black Corps d'Elite (1995); given an honorary D.Litt. by Durham University in 1991) Encyclopaedia Britannica (online), January 27, 2020 (Richard Leslie Hill, contributor; location: Oxford, UK; professor of history, Abdullahi Bayero College, Ahmadu Bello University, Kano, Nigeria, 1968-69; lecturer in Modern Near Eastern History, University of Durham, England, 1949-66) |
| Associated language | eng |
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