Series RAS BMM/17 - 1992 - Doreen Ingrams and Beatrice de Cardi

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Reference code

GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/17

Title

1992 - Doreen Ingrams and Beatrice de Cardi

Date(s)

  • 1992 - 1993 (Creation)

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Context area

Name of creator

(1906-1997)

Biographical history

Doreen Ingrams, the daughter of Edward Shortt MP, married Harold Ingrams (See RAS BMM/8) in 1930. She gave up a stage career to travel with him to Mauritius where he was a colonial administrator. In 1934, they moved to Saudi Arabia, travelling with himread more

Name of creator

(1914-2016)

Biographical history

Beatrice Eileen de Cardi was born in London in 1914, educated at St. Paul's School and University College, London, studying archaeology under Sir Mortimer Wheeler. n 1936, after graduating, she was offered a position as Wheeler's secretary at the Londonread more

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Administrative documents, correspondence and a newspaper cutting concerned with the conferment of the Burton Memorial Medal on Doreen Ingrams and Beatrice de Cardi.

System of arrangement

The Series was divided into three sub-series for administrative documents, correspondence, and printed material.

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Language of material

  • English

Allied materials area

Related units of description

The Minutes of the Council Meeting may provide additional details of the award to Doreen Ingrams and Beatrice de Cardi. The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1994, p.475, reports the award of the Burton Memorial Medal to Doreen Ingrams and Beatrice deread more

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