Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Pinder-Wilson, Ralph Hutchinson, 1919-2008
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Dates of existence
1919-2008
History
Pinder-Wilson, Ralph Hutchinson, brother of William George Pinder-Wilson (qv); b. 17 Jan. 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (A); left July 1937; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1937, BA MA 1947; 2nd Lieut. Roy. Welsh Fusiliers 1940, transf. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders July 1941 (Capt.); Asst Keeeer Dept. of Oriental Antiquities Brit. Museum 1949, Dep. Keeper 1969-76; FSA 1958; visiting Fellow All Souls 1968; Dir. Brit. Inst. of Afghan Studies Kabul 1976-82; arrested in Afghanistan Apr. 1982 charged with illegal handling of archaeological finds; sentenced first to death, then to ten years' imprisonment; released as innocent 14 July 1982; visiting Fellow Churchill Coll. Camb. 1982-3; Regent Prof. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1984; author of Persian Painting of the Fifteenth Century 1958, Studies in Islamic Art 1985; d. 6 Oct. 2008.
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GB 2014
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Sources
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1919 to Election 1989, Volume 4, compiled by F.E. Pagan and H.E. Pagan, Padstow, 1992