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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Walter Sibbald Adie''' (17 August 1872 - 6 April 1956) was an accountant General in the [[Indian Civil Service]] from 1896 to 1929.<ref name="Dalby (1988) Oriental Collections in Cambridge University Library">{{cite journal |last1=Dalby |first1=Andrew |title=A Dictionary of Oriental Collections in Cambridge University Library |journal=Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society |date=1988 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=248-280 |url=https://www.academia.edu/22377191/A_Dictionary_of_Oriental_Collections_in_Cambridge_University_Library |access-date=2 March 2025}}</ref> After he retired from this position he taught [[Languages of India|Indian languages]] at [[Cambridge University]]. <ref name="Ahmed (1988) Cambridge Computing">{{cite book |last1=Ahmed |first1=Haroon |title=Cambridge Computing: The First 75 Years |date=2013 |location=Cambridge |isbn=978 1 906507 83 1 |url=https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/downloads/books/CambridgeComputing_Ahmed.pdf}}</ref><br />
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Adie was born in Richmond, the son of Patrick Adie and Clementina Hellaby.<ref name="Ancestry Walter Sibbald Adie">{{cite web |title=Walter Sibbald Adie |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/genealogy/records/walter-sibbald-adie-24-80q8ss |website=www.ancestry.co.uk |publisher=Ancestry |access-date=2 March 2025}}</ref> He was the grandson of the Edinburgh medical imnstrument maker, [[Alexander Adie]].<br />
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Adie attended [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] and was [[Senior Wrangler]] in 1894.<ref name="Cambridge Wranglers">{{cite web |title=Cambridge Wranglers |url=http://www.tpwilliams.co.uk/mathematical_tripos/wranglers.htm |website=www.tpwilliams.co.uk |access-date=2 March 2025}}</ref> He donated his stamp collection to be sold in support [[Trinity College Library]].<ref name="Trinity Library benefactors">{{cite book |title=Commemoration of Benefactors |date=n.d. |publisher=Trinity College Choir |url=https://trinitycollegechoir.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2017-03-17.pdf}}</ref> He also donated four manuscripts in Burmese and Sanskrit to the [[ School of Oriental and African Studies]] library in 1943.<ref name="Frasch">{{cite book |title=Tilman Frasch's A Preliminary Survey of Burmese Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland |publisher=SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/TilmanFraschsAPreliminarySurveyOfBurmeseManuscriptsInGreatBritain/mode/2up? |language=English}}</ref><br />
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He turned a building in Millington Road into [[Adie's Museum]], which housed a number of Asian sculptures. From 1955 he rented this out to the [[Cambridge Language Research Unit]].<ref name="Ahmed (1988) Cambridge Computing"/><br />
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