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GB 891 RAS LEC4-RAS LEC4/4-RAS LEC4/4/3
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- 1969 - 1979 (Creation)
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(1823-present)
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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 of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia'. It continues as a forum for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.
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(23/01/1909-29/07/1986)
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Richard David Barnett, CBE, FBA was the Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum.
He was born on 23 January 1909, the son of Lionel David Barnett, who was the Keeper of Oriental Books and Manuscripts at the British Museum from 1908 to 1936. He attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was a student of British School of Archaeology at Athens from 1930 to 1932.
In 1932, Barnett was appointed an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. He remained in that office until 1939, when he moved to the Admiralty for war service; after spells there and at the Foreign Office, he served in the RAF from 1942 to 1946. On demobilisation, he returned to his post at the British Museum in 1946 and was promoted to Deputy Keeper in 1953.
In 1955, he became Keeper of the department, serving until 1974.[1] He then spent the 1974-75 year as a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Barnett was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1962 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974. He served as president of the Jewish Historical Society of England from 1959 to 1961 and chairman of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society between 1968 and 1986.
He died on 29 July 1986.
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Correspondence connected with the organisation of Lectures:
- Correspondence with Dr Klaus Fischer, 12 items, dated 25 March 1969 - 21 March 1971.
- Correspondence concerning a lecture by Dr J.C. Marr, held jointly with the Linnean Society, 22 items, dated 30 April 1969 - 25 September 1970.
- Correspondence concerning a lecture by Dr R.S. McGregor, 4 items, dated 7 May 1969 - 15 May 1970.
- Correspondence with Miss Margaret N. Bainbridge, 4 items dated 28 April 1970 - 9 August 1971.
- Correspondence with H.T. Norris, 6 items, dated 28 April 1970 - 9 August 1971.
- Correspondence with Dr Skillend, 5 items, dated 28 April 1970 - 13 July 1970.
- Correspondence with Professor W.E. Emery, 3 items, dated 7 May 1970 - 13 July 1970.
- Correspondence with Dr J.C. Harle, 5 items, dated 27 May 1970 - 3 November 1970.
- Correspondence with Dr G.B. Milner, 5 items, dated 27 May 1970 - 15 January 1971.
- Correspondence with G. Seager, 10 items, dated 5 June 1970 - 21 December 1970.
- Correspondence with Dr J.D. Latham, 3 items, dated 17 June 1970 - 13 July 1970.
- Correspondence with Sir Ralph Turner, 1 item, dated 26 June 1970.
- Correspondence with Dr F.R. Allchin, 2 items, dated 31 July 1970.
- Correspondence with Dr James Dickie, 4 items, dated 27 May 1971 - 10 August 1971.
- Correspondence with Dr J.G. Coates, 10 items, dated 27 May 1971 - 17 March 1972.
- Correspondence with Hugh Richardson, 1 item, dated 6 June 1971.
- Correspondence with Professor Harry Smith, 4 items, dated 22 June 1971 - 9 August 1971.
- Correspondence with Professor C. Dowsett, 9 items, dated 1 July 1971 - 25 July 1974.
- Correspondence with B.D. Doe, 3 items, dated 13 July 1971 - 9 August 1971.
- Correspondence with Helen W. Brown, 3 items, dated 21 July 1971 - 2 August 1971.
- Correspondence with R.W. Skelton, 4 items, dated 9 August 1971 - 20 January 1972.
- Confirmation of lecture by Anthony Hutt, 1 item, dated 9 December 1971.
- Correspondence with D.J. Duncanson, 4 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 28 July 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor P.L. Gupta, 2 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 5 May 1972.
- Correspondence with Dr John Boardman, 2 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 25 April 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor B. Lewis, 3 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 1 May 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr R.D. Barnett, 7 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 8 December 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor James Barr, 5 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 4 September 1972.
- Correspondence with David James, 4 items, dated 31 May 1972 - 22 February 1973.
- Correspondence with Professor Mary Boyce, 3 items, dated 1 June 1972 - 20 July 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor J.B. Segal, 3 items, dated 6 October 1972 - 13 May 1974.
- Correspondence with Dr Carmen Blacker, 6 items, dated 7 April 1972 - 19 December 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor Maurice Freedman, 4 items, dated 23 October 1972 - 11 July 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr M.A. Shaban, 9 items, dated 23 October 1972 - 12 June 1973.
- Correspondence with F.E. Thompson, 1 item, dated 14 November 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor C.R. Bawden, 8 items, dated 5 December 1972 - 12 August 1974.
- Correspondence with Sir John Pilcher, 2 items, dated 21 January 1973 - 23 January 1973.
- Correspondence with John Leach, 5 items, dated 3 February 1973 - 7 May 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr E.D. O'Flaherty, 4 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr Michael Loewe, 3 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 16 May 1973.
- Correspondence with John Ayers, 5 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 3 October 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr May H. Beattie, 14 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 18 March 1974.
- Correspondence with Professor A.F.L. Beeston, 3 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 6 June 1973.
- Correspondence with Sir Gerard Clauson, 3 items, dated 15 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
- Correspondence with Professor C.E. Bosworth, 3 items, dated 21 May 1973 - 13 June 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr R.F. Gombrich, 3 items, dated 22 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
- Correspondence with Professor V.L. Menage, 3 items, dated 29 June 1973 - 31 May 1974.
- Correspondence with Professor W.N. Arafat, 2 items, dated 31 July 1973 - 2 August 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr W.G. Archer, 5 items, dated 30 April 1974 - 3 September 1974.
- Correspondence with Professor E.J.H. Corner, 5 items, dated 30 April 1974 - 25 July 1974.
- Correspondence with Dr John Hansman, 1 item, dated 30 April 1974.
- Correspondence with P.T. Denwood, 4 items, dated 4 June 1974 - 25 July 1974.
- Correspondence with Dr Susan Skilliter, 4 items, dated 25 June 1974 - 30 July 1974.
- Correspondence with Professor D. Wiseman, 2 items, dated 25 June 1974 - 8 July 1974.
- Correspondence with Dr E. Sollberger, 3 items, dated 9 July 1974 - 30 July 1974.
- Internal correspondence regarding lectures, 7 items, dated 24 January 1971 - 15 August 1974.
- Material for the Minorsky Memorial Lecture, 1977.
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- Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Linnean Society of London (Subject)
- Marr J.D (Subject)
- Bailey Harold 1889-1996 (Subject)
- Bainbridge Margaret (Subject)
- Norris H.T. 1926-2019 (Subject)
- Skillend W. E. 1926-2010 (Subject)
- Emery W. E. 1914-1993 (Subject)
- Harle J. C (Subject)
- Milner G. B (Subject)
- Seager George (Subject)
- Latham J. D (Subject)
- Allchin F. R. Frank Raymond (Subject)
- Dickie James d 1997 (Subject)
- Coates J.G. (Subject)
- Dowsett Charles 1924-1998 (Subject)
- Doe B.D. (Subject)
- Brown Helen White (Subject)
- Skelton Robert William 1929-2022 (Subject)
- Duncanson Dennis J. 1917-1998 (Subject)
- Gupta P. L. 1914-2001 Parameshwari Lal (Subject)
- Baordman John (Subject)
- Lewis B. (Subject)
- Boyce Mary 1920-2006 (Subject)
- Segal J. B (Subject)
- Blacker Carmen 1924-2009 (Subject)
- Freedman Maurice 1904-1985 (Subject)
- Shaban M. A. 1926-1992 (Subject)
- Bawden C. R. Charles Roskelly (Subject)
- Pilcher John (Subject)
- O'Flaherty W. D. b 1940 (Subject)
- Loewe Michael (Subject)
- Ayers John (Subject)
- Beattie May H. 1908-1997 (Subject)
- Clauson Gerard 1891-1974 (Subject)
- Beeston A.F.L. 1911-1995 (Subject)
- Bosworth C. Edmund 1928-2015 (Subject)
- Gombrich Richard F. b 1937 (Subject)
- Archer W. G. 1907-1997 (Subject)
- Corner E. J. H (Subject)
- Hansman John (Subject)
- Denwood Philip T (Subject)
- Sollberger Edmond 1920-1989 (Subject)
- Skilliter Susan Anne 1930-1985 (Subject)
- Barnett, Richard David, 1909-1986* (Subject)