D. G. E. Hall
Daniel George Edward Hall | |
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| Born | November 17, 1891 |
| Died | October 12, 1979 (aged 87) Hitchen, UK |
| Nationality | British |
Daniel George Edward Hall (born, 17 November 1891) was the Emeritus Professor of the History of South East Asia in the University of London as well as the Professor of Southeast Asian History at Cornell University. His notable works includeA History of South-East Asia. , said to "...remain the most important single history of the region, providing encyclopedic coverage of material published up to the time of its 1981 revision." [1]
Biography
Hall attended the Hitchin Grammar School for lower education , afterwards entering the Department of History in King's College London (1913), graduating in 1916 with first-class honors. Hall earned the Inglis Studentship and was an M.A. at the University of London with thesis on mercantile aspects of English foreign policy during the reign of Charles II. He served in the Military with Inns of Court Regiment, and toured Western Front with Lena Ashworth concert party. He was the senior history master at Royal Grammar School, Worcester in early 1919. Later that year he married Helen Eugenie Banks and began teaching history at Bedales School, Hampshire. In May 1921, Hall arrived at Rangoon to take up chair of history at the University of Rangoon. Twelve years later he returned to England due to his family develping trachoma, which made it hard to remain in the tropics. That year, and for ten year laters he became the Headmaster of Caterham School in Surrey. When he left Caterham in 1949, he was appointed Chair of the History of South East Asia department at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. Ten years later, he retired from the University of London and took up a visiting professor position at Cornell University. His wife died one year later, and after a three year break from teaching, he resumed work at Cornell. He retired in 1973, and died on 12 October 1979.
Books
First published work on Burmese history was a paper entitled “English Relations with Burma, 1587-1686" published in the Journal of the Burma Research Society, 1927.
Publications
1922: A Professorship of Far Eastern History JBRS
1925: A Brief Survey of English Constitutional History London: Harrap.
1927: English Relations with Burma, 1587-1686 Journal of the Burma Research Society
1928: Early English Intercourse With Burma, 1587-1743 Rangoon University Publications
1935: A High School British History, 1714-1930, for Burma, India and the East Oxford University Press
1945: Europe and Burma: A study of European Relations with Burma to the Annexation of Thibaw's Kingdom,1886 London: Oxford University Press
1950: Burma London: Hutchinson's University Library
1955: A History of South East Asia London: Macmillan Limited
1955: Michael Symes, Journal of his Second Embassy to the Court of Ava in 1802 London: George Allen and Unwin
1974: Henry Burney: A Political Biography London: Oxford University Press
References
- ^ Milton Osborne: Southeast Asia, An Introductory History. Published by Allen & Unwin, 2004. ISBN 1 74114 448 5
D.G.E. Hall: A Biographical Sketch. C.D. Cowan. Southeast Asian History and Historiography. Cornell University Press, 1976. ISBN 0-8014-0814-5
AIM25 Project Identity Statement (Reference code: GB 0102 PP MS 18)
C. D. Cowan, "Obituary: Daniel George Edward Hall" in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol. 44 (1981) pp. 149-154.