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Richard Symonds (academic)

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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
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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.
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and experienced air raids there. After leaving Oxford University he joined the Friends' Ambulance and drove ambulances during the
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This article is about the academic and civil servant. For the English footballer, see
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and was Resident Representative in various countries including
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Symonds was the author of many books. His first was
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Richard Symonds (footballer)
Richard Symonds (diarist)
English
Oxford
neurologist
Charles Symonds
Cothill House
Rugby School
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Edward Heath
Spanish Civil War
London blitz
Partition
typhoid
Mahatma Gandhi
Birla House in New Delhi
United Nations
Sri Lanka
Greece
Yugoslavia
Tunisia
St Antony's College
Bodleian Library
Faber and Faber
Anne Harrisson
Ann Hazel Spokes
Guha, Ramachandra
Independent Obituary
Obituary at The Guardian
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