Hugh Tinker

hugh russell tinker b 20 july 1921, d april 2000: author and academic: at various times taught at rangoon university, SOAS (london), cornell, and lancaster universities: director of the institute of race relations: active in the liberal party and in CND: fought in the indian army during WW2, and stayed on in the indian civil service before returning to take a degree at sidney sussex college cambridge: author of many books on the indian subcontinent: married elisabeth mckenzie willis in 1948, three children, jonathan, mark and david, the last was killed in action in the falklands (malvinas) on the last day of the war in 1982 and for whom hugh produced "letters from the falklands", subsequently staged at the royal court and elsewhere: the photo shows him in 1995 with his lifelong friend prof dennis dalton and his wife dr sharron dalton (both columbia uni) and with elisabeth (mark tinker nov 2010)