Simon Digby (oriental scholar), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Simon Digby (oriental scholar)

British academic

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1932

Date of Death: 10-Jan-2010

Profession: translator, linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Professor Simon Everard Digby MA (17 October 1932 – 10 January 2010) was an English oriental scholar, translator, writer and collector who was awarded the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society and was a former Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, the Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society and Assistant Keeper in the Department of Eastern Art of the Asmolean Museum in Oxford.
He was also the foremost British scholar of pre-Mughal India.