Richard Symonds (academic)
Richard Symonds (2 October 1918 – 15 July 2006) was an English academic and civil servant.
He was born in
When the Japanese were threatening India with air raids, he was sent by the Friends' Ambulance to advise because of the expertise he had already gained.[1]
In 1947, Symonds returned to India to work with Partition refugees. After contracting typhoid, he was brought, at the insistence of Mahatma Gandhi, to Birla House in New Delhi, where he spend several weeks recuperating under Gandhi's care.[2]
Richard Symonds served in the United Nations and was Resident Representative in various countries including Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Greece, Yugoslavia and Tunisia.
After a period as a professorial fellow at Sussex University, he returned to Oxford and to Queen Elizabeth House. He became a senior associate member of
Symonds was the author of many books. His first was The Making of Pakistan published by
Symonds was married three times; firstly to Anne Harrisson (marriage dissolved 1948); secondly to Juanita Ellington (died 1979); thirdly to Ann Hazel Spokes.[3]
References
- ^ Who's Who entry for Richard Symonds
- ^ Guha, Ramachandra, Gandhi - The Years That Changed The World 1914-1948, Knopf; F., 2018, p. 830
- ^ Independent Obituary
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