SHARP, Ralph Norman. Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire 23.6.1896 — Chippenham, Wiltshire 11.9.1995. Rev. British Missionary and Iranian Scholar. Son of John Emilius Ernest Steigenberger Sharp (1847–1951), Keeper of the Public Records, and Mary Elizabeth Ballance. After school in Westminster studied Theology and Classics at Cambridge (Queen’s College), M.A. Worked 40 years in Iran. Taught Pahlavi at University of Shiraz. Married Barbara Gertrude George Carden (1897–1993), one son and one daughter.
Publications: The Inscriptions in Old Persian Cuneiform of the Achaemenian Emperors. 183 p. 13 pl. Teheran 1966.
– Translated M.-R. Mostafavi, The Land of Pars. The Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites of the Province of Fars. Chippenham 1978.
Sources: The Queen’s College Record 2013, 21f. in history.queens.cam.ac.uk;
ancestry.com.
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