Series RAS BMM/14 - 1972 - Professor Mary Boyce

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GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/14

Title

1972 - Professor Mary Boyce

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  • 1972 - 1973 (Creation)

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Nora Elisabeth Mary Boyce was born in India in 1920. She graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge with a double first. She joined the faculty of the Royal Holloway College, University of London in 1944, where she taught Anglo-Saxon literature andread more

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Administrative history

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation ofread more

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Scope and content

Correspondence and a newspaper cutting concerning the conferment of the Burton Memorial Medal on Professor Mary Boyce.

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The material was divided into two sub-series for correspondence and printed material.

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  • English

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The Minutes of the Council Meeting may provide additional details of the award to Professor Mary Boyce. The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1973, p.197 record the presentation of the Burton Memorial Medal to Professor Boyce as part of the Anniversary Report.

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