Walter Sibbald Adie (17 August 1872 - 6 April 1956) was an accountant General in the Indian Civil Service from 1896 to 1929.[1] After he retired from this position he taught Indian languages at Cambridge University. [2]
Adie was born in Richmond, the son of Patrick Adie and Clementina Hellaby.[3] He was the grandson of the Edinburgh medical imnstrument maker, Alexander Adie.
Adie attended Trinity College, Cambridge and was Senior Wrangler in 1894.[4] He donated his stamp collection to be sold in support Trinity College Library.[5] He also donated four manuscripts in Burmese and Sanskrit to the School of Oriental and African Studies library in 1943.[6]
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.[2]
References
- ↑ Dalby, Andrew (1988). "A Dictionary of Oriental Collections in Cambridge University Library". Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society. 9 (3): 248–280. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ahmed, Haroon (2013). Cambridge Computing: The First 75 Years (PDF). Cambridge. ISBN 978 1 906507 83 1.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ "Walter Sibbald Adie". www.ancestry.co.uk. Ancestry. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ↑ "Cambridge Wranglers". www.tpwilliams.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ↑ Commemoration of Benefactors (PDF). Trinity College Choir. n.d.
- ↑ Tilman Frasch's A Preliminary Survey of Burmese Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland. London: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research.