Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb
Description area
Dates of existence
1895-1971
History
Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb was a Scottish historian on Orientalism, teaching first at the School of Oriental Studies, London, and subsequently at the University of Oxford before moving to Harvard University in 1955. He was a trustee of the Gibb Memorial Trust.