Charles Bawden's father was George Charles Bawden and his mother was Eleanor Alice Adelaide Russell.
15 Facts About Charles Bawden
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Charles Bawden's parents were schoolteachers, though his mother was required to resign upon marriage.
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Charles Bawden won a scholarship in Modern Languages at Peterhouse, Cambridge University, but after being awarded a First in Part I of the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos he was called up for military service.
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Charles Bawden joined the Navy in February 1943 as an ordinary seaman.
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Charles Bawden was posted to the secret Bedford Japanese School and joined the 4th course.
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Charles Bawden proved to be the best student on the course and after he had been commissioned he was sent to the Naval Section at the Government Code and Cypher School, Bletchley Park, where he worked on decrypted Japanese signals.
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Charles Bawden arrived in summer 1944 and stayed until December 1945.
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Charles Bawden then went to Japan on a cruiser as part of a Disposal of Enemy Equipment unit.
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Charles Bawden was based at Kure, the headquarters of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force but this posting did not last long and he returned to the UK.
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Charles Bawden then spent a year studying Chinese under Professor Gustav Haloun.
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Charles Bawden subsequently began work on a PhD in Chinese but by that time his interests had turned to Mongolian, which he had begun studying under Professor Denis Sinor, and he completed his PhD on the Mongolian chronicle Altan Tobchi.
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Charles Bawden made the first of his many visits to Mongolia in 1958.
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Charles Bawden resigned the fellowship in 1981 on account of his opposition to the continued membership of Anthony Blunt, who had been exposed as a Soviet spy, but he was reelected in 1985.
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Charles Bawden wrote extensively on Mongolian history and literature, and published a Mongolian-English dictionary that is often cited as the most comprehensive available.
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On 3 August 1949 Charles Bawden married Jean Barham Johnson: she was the younger sister of Margaret Barham Johnson, who had served in the WRNS in Colombo and had been one of his colleagues there.