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A. C. Graham
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<p>Angus Charles Graham, FBA (8 July 1919 – 26 March 1991) was a Welsh scholar and <a href="/facts/Sinologist/5XjbI40A">sinologist</a> who was professor of classical Chinese at the <a href="/facts/School_of_Oriental_and_African_Studies%2c_University_of_London/xQyNNhww">School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London</a>. </p><p>He was born in <a href="/facts/Penarth%2c_Glamorgan/Hh9PcrbC">Penarth, Glamorgan</a>, Wales to Charles Harold and Mabelle Graham, the elder of two children. His father was originally a <a href="/facts/Coal_merchant/NAR32wRR">coal merchant</a> who moved to <a href="/facts/British_Malaya/SwMnjlFx">Malaya</a> to start a rubber plantation, and died in 1928 of malaria. Graham attended Ellesmore College, Shropshire, 1932–1937, and went on to read Theology at <a href="/facts/Corpus_Christi_College%2c_Oxford/9xIA55ER">Corpus Christi College, Oxford</a> (graduating in 1940), and Chinese at the <a href="/facts/School_of_Oriental_and_African_Studies/xQyNNhww">School of Oriental and African Studies</a> (SOAS), University of London (graduating in 1949). In 1950 he was appointed lecturer in Classical Chinese at SOAS, promoted to professor in 1971, and to professor emeritus after his retirement in 1984. He lived in <a href="/facts/Borehamwood/u2QHgmxT">Borehamwood</a>. </p><p>He also held visiting positions at <a href="/facts/Hong_Kong_University/sAxpHJrn">Hong Kong University</a>, <a href="/facts/Yale/KUdS6jt1">Yale</a>, the <a href="/facts/University_of_Michigan/6e1Ea5xh">University of Michigan</a>, the Society of Humanities at <a href="/facts/Cornell/FGyXuXeI">Cornell</a>, the Institute of East Asian Philosophies in Singapore, <a href="/facts/National_Tsing_Hua_University/xck41c1T">National Tsing Hua University</a> in Taiwan, <a href="/facts/Brown_University/o9MRu4jx">Brown University</a>, and the <a href="/facts/University_of_Hawaii/6nzkEffB">University of Hawaii</a>. He was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/facts/British_Academy/RtbyQVwB">British Academy</a> in 1981. </p>