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Archival description
1909 – Sir G.A. Grierson
GB 891 RAS TGM-RAS TGM/6 · Series · 1909
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Triennial Gold Medal

This series consists of a newspaper cutting concerning the conferment of the Medal, and a rubbing of the reverse side of the Medal. Please see Related Material for further details concerning the conferment of the Medal.

Grierson Sir George Abraham 1851-1941 Indian civil servant, author
1912 – J.F. Fleet
GB 891 RAS TGM-RAS TGM/7 · Series · 1912
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Triennial Gold Medal

There is no archival material in this series. Please see Related Material for details concerning the conferment of the Medal.

Fleet John Faithfull 1847-1917 Historian, epigraphist and linguist
GB 891 RAS TGM-RAS TGM/8 · Series · 1915
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Triennial Gold Medal

There is a single letter in this series from Alex H. Wilson, on behalf of T.C. Wilson & Co., Solicitors, to the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society to give his opinion on the awarding of the medal for 1915 in accordance with the Rules of the Society. Typed letter, dated 18 May 1915.

For material regarding the conferment of the Medal see Related Material.

Lewis Agnes Smith 1843-1926 Syriac scholar
1918 – V.A. Smith
GB 891 RAS TGM-RAS TGM/9 · Series · 1918
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Triennial Gold Medal

There is no archival material in this series. Please see Related Material for details concerning the conferment of the Medal.

Smith Vincent Arthur 1848-1920 Indologist, archaeologist, numismatist
1925 – Rev. A.H. Sayce
GB 891 RAS TGM-RAS TGM/11 · Series · 1925
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Triennial Gold Medal

Two newspaper cuttings concerning the controversy around the use of Rudyard Kipling's "East is East and West is West" couplet by Lord Birkenhead at the presentation of the Triennial Gold Medal to Rev. A.H. Sayce. These are:

  • 'Kipling's Distich." Lord Birkenhead on East and West' from The Times of India, 1 June 1925.
  • 'Indian Affairs at Home. Reading-Birkenhead Discussions' from The Englishman, 5 June 1925.
Sayce Archibald Henry 1845-1933 Assyriologist, linguist