NOBLE, Peter Scott. 17.10.1899 — 12.5.1987. Sir. British Classical Scholar with interest in Indology. Educated in Aberdeen (Fraserburgh Academy). Studies of Classics at Aberdeen (1917-19 in army) and Cambridge (St.John’s College), soon also Sanskrit under E. J. Rapson and comparative linguistics under P. Giles. B.A. 1923, M.A. In 1926-30 Lecturer in Latin at Liverpool, 1930-38 Professor of Latin at Leeds. In 1938-52 Regius Professor of Humanities at Aberdeen, then 1952-68 Principal of King’s College. London, 1961-64 Vice-Chancellor of University of London. LL.D. Knighted 1967. Married 1928 Mary Stephen (d. 1983), two sons and one daughter.
Publications: With Rapson: Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein. Part 3. Oxford 1929.
– “A Kharoṣṭhī Inscription from Endere”, BSOS 6:2 (Rapson Vol.), 1931, 445-455.
– Also wrote on classical philology.
Sources: Wikipedia with portrait.
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