Foster, William, Sir, 1863-1951

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1882 Joined India Office; 1907-1923 Registrar and Superintendent of Records, India Office; 1923-1927 Historiographer.

Epithet: historian and archivist

Title: Knight

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x000329

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referencedIn	William Woodville Rockhill papers	Houghton Library
referencedIn	Papers of the Royal Society for India, Pakistan and Ceylon and its antecedent organisations, 1865-1984	British Library
creatorOf	Rockhill, William Woodville, 1854-1914. William Woodville Rockhill papers, 1826-1941.	Houghton Library
creatorOf	Sir William Foster papers.	British Library
referencedIn	Autograph File, F, 1447-1994.	Houghton Library
referencedIn	Edward John Thompson papers., 1929-1944	British Library
creatorOf	Papers of Sir William Foster, historian of East India Company, 1890-1950	British Library
creatorOf	HOBSON-JOBSON: A glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases and of Kindred Terms. (2nd Edition) by Henry Yule and A.C.Burnell, 1903	British Library
referencedIn	Papers of General Sir Edmund Barrow, Indian Army 1877-1919; Military Secretary, India Office 1914-17; Member of Council of India 1917-24; including material relating to the Kitchener-Curzon controversy of 1905, 1877-1930	British Library

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Foster, William, Sir, 1863-1951

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