Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, 1843-1920 (orientalist)
Biography
Margaret Dunlop Gibson (1843-1920), orientalist, was born on 16 April 1843 in Irvine, Ayrshire. She attended Irvine Academy and fashionable boarding-schools in Birkenhead, Cheshire, and Kensington, London (1858-63), and then received private tuition in classics and Oriental and modern languages, but as a woman was then unable to attend a British university. She compiled the glossaries for several text editions of Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Palestinian Syriac). Margaret's publications comprise text editions of Arabic. She received for her scholarly achievements honorary degrees from St Andrews (DD, 1901), Heidelberg, (DD, 1904), and Dublin (LittD, 1911), and the triennial gold medal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1915. Margaret Gibson died suddenly of a cerebral thrombosis on 11 January 1920 at her home, Castle-brae, Chesterton Lane, Cambridge
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Margaret Dunlop Gibson: Letter to Francis Jenkinson, 1917
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.