Sir Hamilton Gibb
| Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb | |
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Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb
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2 January 1895 Alexandria, Egypt |
| Died | 22 October 1971 (aged 76) |
| Education | MA (Arabic) |
| Alma mater | School of Oriental and African Studies |
| Occupation | historian |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Jessie Stark (m. 1922) |
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 1954 photographic portrait (Harvard University) Retrieved 24 April 2011 |
Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb, FBA (2 January 1895 – 22 October 1971), known as H. A. R. Gibb, was a Scottish historian on Orientalism.
Gibb was born on Wednesday, 2 January 1895, in Alexandria, Egypt, to Alexander Crawford Gibb (son of John Gibb of Gladstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland) and Jane Ann Gardner (of Greenock, Scotland). Alexander Crawford died in 1897, following which Gardner took up a teaching position in Alexandria. Hamilton returned to Scotland for his formal education at the age of five: first, four years of private tuition, after which he started at the Royal High School, Edinburgh in 1904, staying until 1912. His education was focused on classics, though it included French, German, and the physical sciences. In 1912, Hamilton matriculated at Edinburgh University, joining the new honours program in Semitic languages (Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic). Hamilton's mother died in 1913 as he was studying in his second year at the university.
During World War I Gibb broke off his studies at the University of Edinburgh to serve for the British Royal Regiment of Artillery in France (from February 1917) and for several months in Italy as a commissioned officer. (He was commissioned at the age of 19.)
He was awarded a "war privilege" Master of Arts because of his service, until the Armistice with Germany in November 1918.
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