File RAS BMM/7/2/17 - Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Colonel Hoysted, 11/03/1940

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GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/7-RAS BMM/7/2-RAS BMM/7/2/17

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Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Colonel Hoysted, 11/03/1940

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  • 11th Mar 1940 (Creation)

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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.

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Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the Committee recommend Major J.B. Glubb to receive the Burton Medal. With this letter is the official recommendation signed by all the Committee Members. Both the letter and the recommendation are annotated in Hoysted's hand to state that the Council accepted the nomination and a letter had been sent to Major Glubb.

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