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Susan Skilliter

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Susan Skilliter
Born1930
Stepney, London, England
Died16 September 1985 (aged 54)
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
OccupationAcademic

Susan Skilliter (1930–1985) was a British academic, a lecturer in Turkish Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. She left her library to the College with a bequest which enabled the foundation of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies.[1]

Life

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Susan Skilliter took a degree in Oriental Studies (Arabic and Persian) at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1962, she was appointed to a lecturership in Turkish at the University of Manchester.[2] She returned to Cambridge to take up a university lecturership in Turkish and a fellowship at her alma mater in 1964. She published on William Harborne and trade relations between England and the Ottomans in the Elizabethan era, and became a noted authority on the subject.

Skilliter died on 16 September 1985, at the age of 54, and left her library and a significant bequest to Newnham College.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies". Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies.
  2. ^ Goodwin, Godfrey. "Obituary: Susan Skilliter" (PDF). Cambridge University Press.
  3. ^ Blacker, Carmen (January 1986). "Obituary: Dr. Susan Skilliter, 1930–1985". Folklore. 97 (2): 224. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1986.9716385.