| LC control no. | n 50044504 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Richardson, Hugh, 1905-2000 |
| Variant(s) | Richardson, H. E. (Hugh Edward), 1905-2000 |
| Birth date | 1905 |
| Death date | 2000 |
| Place of birth | St. Andrews (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Civil service, Colonial Tibetan language |
| Affiliation | Indian Civil Service |
| Profession or occupation | Bureaucrats Tibetologists |
| Found in | Tibetan syllables, 1943. His Tibet and its history, 1984: CIP t.p. (Hugh Richardson) His Tibet and its history, 1986: CIP t.p. (Hugh E. Richardson) Wikipedia, May 29, 2007 (Hugh E. Richardson (1905-2000)) LC database, May 29, 2007 (usage: Hugh Edward Richardson, H.E. Richardson) Richardson paper, 1993: t.p. (Hugh Richardson) preface (born at St. Andrews, Scotland in 1905; educated at Glenalmond College, Scotland and Keble college, Oxford; joined Indian Civil Service in 1930 and served in Bengal until 1935; transferred to Indian Foreign and Political Service and posted in Baluchistan and North West Frontier Provinces and in the External Affairs Department at New Delhi; he held diplomatic assignments to Lhasa (1936-40 and 1946-50) and Chunking (1942-44); after retired in 1950 from service, became visiting Professor of Tibetan language and history at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.; a well-known Tibetologist and the doyen of scholar on the Himalayas and the Buddhism) |
| Associated language | eng |
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