BUCK, Stuart H.

BUCK, Stuart Henry. Attleboro, co. Bristol, MA 11.2.1911 — Lynchburg, VA 7.4.1997 (or 28.3.). U.S. Tibetologist and Mongolist. Son of Frederic Holden Buck and Florence Hacket. Graduated from Harvard (A.B. 1933). Probably at Catholic University of America, Washington DC. Served 35 years in National Security Agency as Intelligence Analyst, retired 1980. Married 1945 Mary Belle Hill, one daughter.

Publications: Tibetan-English Dictionary. 18+833 p. Washington D.C. 1969 (modern Tibetan).

A Bhutanese Handbook. 73 p. 1976; Dzongka–English and English-Dzongka Glossary. 11 p. 1976.

Bhutanese Newspaper Reader. 274 p. Kensington 1989.

– Also wrote on American Civil War history.

Sources: Stray notes in Internet.

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