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- Hill, R. L. (Richard Leslie), 1901-1996
- Hill, Richard Leslie, 1901-1996
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1901-02
Death Date
- 1996-03-21
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Durham. School of Oriental Studies
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Abdullahi Bayero College
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University College of Khartoum
Has Affiliation
- Organization: St. Edmund Hall (University of Oxford)
Birth Place
- Ramsbury (England)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Sudan--History--19th century
(lcsh) Sudan--Biography
Middle East--Study and teaching
(lcsh) Sudan--Administration
Occupation
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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: His Toryism and the people ... 1929:t.p. (R.L. Hill)
- found: Modernization in the Sudan, 1985:t.p. (Richard Hill) p. 7 (Richard Leslie Hill; b. 1907)
- found: Phone call to publisher, 07-06-94(Richard Leslie Hill; b. 02-18-1901)
- found: The Independent, 3 Apr. 1996obit. (Richard Leslie Hill, colonial civil servant and historian; born Feb. 1901 at Ramsbury, Wiltshire; died 21 Mar. 1996 in Oxford; the seminal part of his life was spent in the Sudan Civil Service)
- found: Hand-list of Arabic manuscripts and lithographs with accessions since 193, third draft, 1966, amended 1973:title page (School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham, Sudan Archive) introduction (Richard Hill, School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham)
- found: Taylor & Francis Online, Middle Eastern Studies, volume 33, issue 1, 1997, pages 193-195, Richard Hill (1901-1996): in memoriam, viewed January 27, 2020(Richard Hill, a member of Middle Eastern Studies editorial board since its foundation in 1965; studied at St Augustine's College, Canterbury, where he went on to train as an Anglican Benedictine; continued at Oxford University's St Edmund's Hall, B.Litt. 1926; the following year he joined the Sudan administration, served there until 1945, mostly in railways; seconded to Khartoum University College, taught Middle Eastern history for another four years; numerous publications, starting with Bibliography of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from th earliest times to 1937 (1939); established the Sudan Archive at Durham University (1957, just after Sudan independence and ending of Anglo-Egyptian Condominium in 1956); lecturer in Near Eastern history at Durham University from 1949 until retirement in 1966; his major scholarly contribution centred on history of the Turco-Egyptian Sudan, the so-called Turkiyya, monograph Egypt in the Sudan, 1820-1881 (1959); author of other works on nineteenth-century Sudan; author of A biographical dictionary of the Sudan (1951, 2nd edition 1965); final work written with Peter Hogg, A Black Corps d'Elite (1995); given an honorary D.Litt. by Durham University in 1991)
- found: Encyclopaedia Britannica (online), January 27, 2020(Richard Leslie Hill, contributor; location: Oxford, UK; professor of history, Abdullahi Bayero College, Ahmadu Bello University, Kano, Nigeria, 1968-69; lecturer in Modern Near Eastern History, University of Durham, England, 1949-66)
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Change Notes
- 1980-07-17: new
- 2023-09-06: revised
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