Thomas, Frederick William, 1867-1956

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1898-1903 Assistant Librarian, India Office; 1903-1927 Librarian, India Office; 1927-1937 Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford.

Epithet: orientalist

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Frederick William Thomas (1867-1956) orientalist; educated at King Edward School in Birmingham and Trinity College, Cambridge where he obtained First Class Parts I and II Classical Tripos, 1887-1889 and First Class Indian Languages Tripos, 1890. Thomas was made a Fellow of Trinity College, 1892; assistant librarian at the India Office, 1898 and librarian, 1903-1927; Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford, 1927-1937. He became a Fellow of the British Academy, 1927; was awarded Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, 1928 and received honorary degrees from Munich, Allahabad and Birmingham. Thomas was a pioneer in Asian philology and an authority on Jainism.

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From the guide to the The F.W. Thomas Collection, 1891-1936, (University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department)

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Role Title Holding Repository
referencedIn Copies of articles (some unpublished) and other scholarly papers and correspondence of Sir George Abraham Grierson (1851-1941), Indian Civil Service 1873-1903, Superintendent of the Linguistic Survey of India 1898-1902; orientalist, 1885-1940 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Henry Shuttleworth, Indian Civil Service, chiefly relating to Tibet, 1909-1946 British Library
referencedIn Reinhold Rost papers., 1869-1896 British Library
creatorOf Frederick William Thomas papers., 1903-1937 British Library
creatorOf Frederick William Thomas papers., 1920-1950 British Library
creatorOf The F.W. Thomas Collection, 1891-1936 University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department
referencedIn Sir William Rothenstein correspondence and other papers, 1887-1957. Houghton Library
creatorOf Frederick William Thomas papers. British Library
referencedIn Papers of George Rusby Kaye, employed to catalogue European Manuscripts of India Office Library, 1927-1929 British Library
referencedIn Cambridge History of India: manuscript chapters prepared for the unpublished 2nd volume, 1922-53, 1922-1953 British Library
creatorOf Frederick William Thomas papers., 1886-1927 British Library
creatorOf Frederick William Thomas papers. British Library
referencedIn Records of the East India Company Library (1801-58) and its successor the India Office Library (1858-1982), with a few records of Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library (1982-), 1801-1994 British Library
referencedIn Free Library of Philadelphia Collection of Literary Manuscripts, 1666-1990 Free Library of Philadelphia: Rare Book Department
referencedIn Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857. Rufus W. Griswold papers, 1785-1897 year (Bulk: 1834-1857) Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square
referencedIn Papers of Arnold and Cornelia Bake, indologists, scholars and performers of Indian music, 1910-1979 British Library
referencedIn MISCELLANEOUS papers and letters. Paper (f. 1 vellum) ; ff. 99. Folio., 9th century-20th century British Library
referencedIn Papers of Ernest Havell, Indian Educational Service, 1887-1937 British Library
referencedIn The F.W. Thomas Collection, 1891-1936 University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department
creatorOf Frederick William Thomas papers., 1927 British Library
referencedIn George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956 Houghton Library
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associatedWith Frederick William Thomas person
associatedWith Free Library of Philadelphia. corporateBody
associatedWith Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857. person
associatedWith Old Edwardians Society corporateBody
correspondedWith Rothenstein, William, Sir, 1872-1945 person
associatedWith Royal Asiatic Society corporateBody
correspondedWith Sarton, George, 1884-1956 person
Place Name Admin Code Country
Sproughton, Suffolk
India, Asia
Tibet, Asia
Singapore, Asia
China, Asia
Nayland, Suffolk
India, Asia
Dijon, France
Nepal, Asia
India, Asia
Isle of Grain, Kent
Todi, Umbria
Chinese Turkestan, China
Hacheston, Suffolk
Dallinghoe, Suffolk
Baroda State, India
Westbury, Wiltshire
Jaipur State, India
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Oriental philology
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Birth 1867-03-21

Death 1956-05-06

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