Fondo JDB - Papers of John Drew Bate

Área de identidad

Código de referencia

GB 891 JDB

Título

Papers of John Drew Bate

Fecha(s)

  • 1858-1930 (Creación)

Nivel de descripción

Fondo

Volumen y soporte

0.067 cubic metres

Área de contexto

Nombre del productor

(1836-1923)

Historia biográfica

John Drew Bate was born in Plymouth in 1836. He trained at Regent’s Park College, London and then in 1865, sailed to India to work for the Baptist Missionary Society, the same year that he married, Beatrice Tagg. After a period in East Bengal (nowread more

Institución archivística

Origen del ingreso o transferencia

Some labels suggest these papers were donated to the Royal Asiatic Society by John Drew Bate's daughter, Miss E.E. Bate, at some point around 1930, though the details of their acquisition are unknown

Área de contenido y estructura

Alcance y contenido

Papers of John Drew Bate with some allied correspondence of his Daughter, E.E. Bate.

John Drew Bate was not only an active missionary, but also interested in the wider culture of India and, in particular, the Hindi language. These papers reflect hisread more

Sistema de arreglo

The collection has been arranged in sections separating manuscripts, sermon notes and other material, creating three different series with the first further subdivided. This the arrangement is:

  • JDB/1/1 Hindi Dictionary
  • JDB/1/2 Islamic Studies
  • JDB/1/3
  • read more

Área de condiciones de acceso y uso

Condiciones de acceso

Open. Please contact the archivist. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, and Thursdays 2-5. Access is to any researcher without appointment but it will help if an appointment is made via phone or email. Please bring photo ID

Condiciones

Digital photography (without flash) for research purposes may be permitted upon completion of a copyright declaration form, and with respect to current UK copyright law.

Idioma del material

  • inglés
  • hindi

Área de materiales relacionados

Unidades de descripción relacionadas

The Royal Asiatic Society hold copies of "A dictionary of the Hindee language" (1918, 2nd edition) and "Notes on the Hindi language" (1875) both authored by John Drew Bate

A folder of the papers of John Drew Bate are held by the Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford

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Área de control de la descripción

Identificador de la descripción

gb891-jdb

Nota del archivista

The descriptions were created by Nancy Charley, Archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society, in 2015. The original order of the material was unknown and therefore it was arranged according to the different types of material of which the collection is comprised

Nota del archivista

Autobiographical information was sourced from