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WE regret to record the death on February 13 of Prof. H. A. Giles, formerly professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge. Herbert Alien Giles was born on December 8, 1845, the son of Dr. John Alien Giles, well-known to many generations of students of the classics as a translator. He was educated at Charterhouse and in 1867 joined the consular service in China, being appointed to Tientsin after a probationary year at Peking. He retired from the service in 1893, returning to England, and in 1897 was appointed professor of Chinese at Cambridge. He held this chair until 1932 when he retired, having done much to foster the study of the Chinese language in the University, and secured its recognition in the ‘Little go’ in place of Latin or Greek for natives of Asia.
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Prof. H. A. Giles. Nature 135, 462 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135462a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135462a0