Hugh Edward Richardson

Hugh Edward Richardson, OBE, CIE ( born December 22, 1905 in St Andrews, † December 3, 2000 in St Andrews ) was a British diplomat and Tibetologist. His academic interests lay in the field of Tibetan history and epigraphy.

Life

Hugh Edward Richardson was born in 1905 in St Andrews. He attended the local Salvator 's School, then Trinity College, Glenalmond, and later the Keble College, Oxford. After his college graduation, he became a teacher at his old school in Glenalmond. In 1930 he entschoß However, like his grandfather to the Indian Civil Service to go.

His interest in Tibet developed while working as a sub-divisional officer in Bengal 1932-1934 where he also began to learn Tibetan.

As part of a delegation of the British government, headed by Basil Gould 1936 he came to Lhasa. From 1936 to 1940 Hugh Edward Richardson was a diplomat of the British government in Lhasa.

In 1944 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire and in 1947 he became a Companion of the Indian Empire.

After the founding of the Indian Union was Hugh Edward Richardson 1947-1950 Diplomat of the Indian government in Lhasa.

In 1950 he accompanied a delegation to New York to be at the United Nations to use against the incipient occupation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China.

After he had decided to return to St Andrews married Hugh Edward Richardson 1951 Huldah Rennie and began a second career as an author and Tibetologist. He began to write books and to stop at several universities lectures on Tibetan history and Tibetan language. Together with David Snellgrove he was a founding member of the Institute of Tibetan Studies in Tring. In 1959, he played a major role in the founding of the Tibet Society of the UK. In 1981 he became an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, in 1985 awarded him the University of St Andrews honorary doctorate, also 1986, he was an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy.

Awards

Works

  • With Basil Gould: Tibetan Word Book. Oxford University Press, London 1943
  • Tibet and its History. Oxford University Press, London, 1962
  • With David Snellgrove: A Cultural History of Tibet. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1968
  • A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions. Royal Asiatic Society, London 1985
  • Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year. Edited by Michael Aris. Serindia, London 1993
  • High Peaks, Pure Earth: Collected Writings of Tibetan History and Culture. Edited by Michael Aris. Serindia, London 1998
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