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English monasteries /
by A. Hamilton Thompson.
Item
xi, 156 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Cambridge manuals of science and literature
Thompson, Alexander Hamilton; historian; born Clifton, Gloucestershire, 7 November, 1873; entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1892, read classics, and graduated BA in 1895 and MA in 1903; in 1919 Thompson was appointed lecturer in English at Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne; he moved to Leeds, where he became reader in medieval history in 1922, professor in 1924, and head of the department in 1927, a post which he held until his retirement in 1939; died Littleham, Exmouth, Devon, on 4 September, 1952.
Pasted in and inscribed on flyleaf "To Bill, Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 1921 from Archie. I fished this out at the Camb. Press - a slightly defective copy. If you have it already I shall be glad to take it."
On slip laid in: "For Professor Archibald Malloch. He's the son of my godfather who gave [Will?] this book, W.W.".
Also described in the McGill Library catalogue.
Thompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton), 1873-1952. English monasteries / by A. Hamilton Thompson. Cambridge [England] : University Press ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913.