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Professor Sir Ralph Lilley Turner MC (
5 October 1888–
22 April 1983) was an
English Indian languages philologist and university administrator. He is also the author of some publications concerning the
Romani language.
Turner was born in
Charlton, London. He was educated at the
Perse School and
Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1913 he joined the Indian Educational Service as a lecturer at
Queen's College, Benares. From 1915 to 1919 he served with the
2nd/3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles, winning the
Military Cross in
Palestine. From 1920 to 1922 he was Professor of Indian Linguistics at
Benares Hindu University.
In 1922, Turner returned to England as Professor of
Sanskrit at the
School of Oriental Studies at the
University of London. Between 1924 and 1932, he also published several papers on Romani Studies in the Journal of the
Gypsy Lore Society, including "On the position of Romani in Indo-Aryan" (1927). He was director of the school from 1937 to 1957, although he continued to occupy his chair as well until 1954. He was
knighted in 1950. His
magnum opus, the
Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages was published in 1966.
The British memorial in London to the Gurkhas was unveiled by Queen
Elizabeth II on
December 3,
1997. The legend on the Gurkha memorial is taken from the following quotation written by Sir Ralph
One of his grand-children is
Geoffrey L. Smith.
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