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Arthur Berriedale Keith
(1879-1944)
Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Lecturer in Constitutional History
in the University of Edinburgh
The third son of an Edinburgh news agent, and brother of the administrator
in Burma Sir William
John Keith, Arthur Berriedale Keith was educated at the Royal High School
and the University
of Edinburgh before going on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He
was called to the English bar and served in the Colonial Office for
fourteen years before being appointed to the Regius Chair of Sanskrit
in 1914. He made great contributions to Vedic and classical Sanskrit
scholarship, and was called in to advise the Government during the abdication
crisis in 1936. After his death his sister gifted to the University
Library his books and papers on Sanskrit and the history and law of
India and the British Empire. All the printed materials are listed in
the pre-1985 Guard-Book Catalogue, and the papers and correspondence
are listed in the "Guide to Arthur Berriedale Keith Papers and Correspondence,
1896-1941" by Ridgway F. Shinn Jr.(1981) which may be consulted in the Special
Collections Department.
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