Kenneth de Burgh Codrington
| Kenneth de Burgh Codrington MA | |||||
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| Born | 1899 | ||||
| Died | 1986 | ||||
| Residence | Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, SW | ||||
| Occupation | museum work | ||||
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RAI Council 1928 Member
RAI Council 1929 Member
RAI Council 1930-31 Member
RAI Council 1931-32 Member
RAI Council 1932-33 Member
RAI Council 1933-34 Member
RAI Council 1935-36 Member
RAI Council 1936-37 Member
RAI Council 1937-38 Member
RAI Council 1939-40 Member
House Notes
1926.03.16 A letter was read from Mr Codrington offering to place his services at the disposal of the Institute during such annual periods of his leave as he intended spending in India. The matter was referred to the Executive and Indian Committees
1926.12.13 proposed by H.J.E. Peake, seconded by F.J. Richards
Notes From Elsewhere
Kenneth Codrington devoted his life to Indian archaeology and was an authority on historical Indian art.
Born to British parents in India, he was brought up in a remote hill station in the North West Frontier region of the Punjab (present day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan).
Codrington collected plants in Afghanistan in 1940-1942 while ostensibly searching for archaeological artefacts, but chiefly occupied with running a spy network for British Intelligence. Codrington was also appointed naval attaché in Kabul, where his main task was to monitor German spy activity.
From 1948 Codrington served as Professor of Indian Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he was made Professor Emeritus on his retirement in 1966.
Publications
External Publications
INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MEDIAEVAL INDIAN SCULPTURE. 1929
The Wood of the Image. 1934
A GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA (Pamphlet)1944
The Study of Indian Art...: Being an Informal Talk Given Before the Tagore Society on March 9th, 1944
Cricket in the grass, 1959
House Publications
70. Iconography: Classical and Indian; Man Vol. 35 (May, 1935), pp. 65-66
1936 The use of counter irritants in the Deccan
190. Bara Gari, the Dragging of the Twelve Carts; Man Vol. 38 (Oct., 1938), pp. 163-168
1943.05.11 read Afghanistan today
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