Walter Sibbald Adie
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Walter Sibbald Adie (17 August 1872 - 6 April 1956) was an accountant General in the Indian Civil Service from 1896 to 1929.[1] After he retired from this position he taught Indian languages at Cambridge University. [2]
Adie was born in Richmond, the son of Patrick Adie and Clementina Hellaby.[3] He was the grandson of the Edinburgh medical imnstrument maker, Alexander Adie.
Adie attended Trinity College, Cambridge and was Senior Wrangler in 1894.[4] He donated his stamp collection to be sold in support Trinity College Library.[5] He also donated four manuscripts in Burmese and Sanskrit to the School of Oriental and African Studies library in 1943.[6]
He turned a building in Millington Road into Adie's Museum, which housed a number of Asian sculptures. From 1955 he rented this out to the Cambridge Language Research Unit.[2]