Identity area
Reference code
GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/1
Title
Inauguration of the Medal
Date(s)
- 1892 - 1925 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
Name of creator
Name of creator
Name of creator
(1876-1941)
Biographical history
Reginald Campbell Thompson was an Archaeologist, Assyriologist, Cuneiformist and fiction writer, along with being a member of the Royal Asiatic Society.
- School: St. Paul's, 1894
- Cambridge: 1895–1899
- Assistant in the Egyptian and Assyrian Department, … read more
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Administrative documents, correspondence and printed materials pertaining to the foundation of the Richard Burton Memorial Fund and inauguration of the giving of the Burton Medal. There are also some examples of the Medal.
System of arrangement
The material was arranged into different types thus:
- RAS BMM/1/1 - Administrative Documents
- RAS BMM/1/2 - Correspondence
- RAS BMM/1/3 - Printed Materials
- RAS BMM/1/4 - Medals
Conditions of access and use area
Language of material
- English
Allied materials area
Related units of description
Researchers are advised to look at the Minutes of the Council Meetings and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of the appropriate time period for further information concerning the Inauguration of the Medal
Access points
Name access points
- Royal Asiatic society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, England (Subject)
- John Pinches (Subject)
- Thompson Reginald Campbell 1876-1941 (Subject)
- Penzer Norman Mosley 1892-1960 (Subject)
- Baker F. Grenfell (Subject)
- MacDougall James Patten 1849- … read more