345:, during the 1959 UN General Assembly debate on Tibet. There, in the words of one commentator, "he acted valiantly as a man of honour in a cause which has been largely lost because of the notions of political expediency, where sides are taken without regard to principle and in order not to risk aligning oneself with a potential loser, however deserving he may be" – a position which reportedly earned him the displeasure of both the British and Indian delegations to the UN Assembly. He remained a close personal friend of the 14th Dalai Lama and of the Tibetan government-in-exile until his death, with the latter describing Richardson as "very precious to us."
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310:, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1944 New Year Honours list, and was further appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) on 14 August 1947, in the last imperial honours list. After Indian independence, Richardson remained in the renamed
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British government's refusal to recognise that Tibet had a right to self-determination, but also at the government's treatment of the
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and gardening and he was also an enthusiastic photographer. Another of
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to a separate political existence, a case he made in two books,
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632:"Hugh Richardson in Tibetan clothes mounted on a horse"
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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fluently, a skill he put to use when conversing with
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violation of human rights in Tibet by the Chinese."
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