Professor Alfred Felix Landon Beeston 'Freddie' (1911-1995)

The title page and part of the Preface of Freddie Beeston's D.Phil thesis.

In 1929, Beeston won a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford where he read Classics for Honour Moderations and then Arabic and Persian for the Final Honours School under the then Laudian Professor of Arabic, D.S. Margoliouth. To his delight, he discovered that Margoliouth had placed on the Arabic syllabus an optional paper on 'South Arabian Epigraphy'. Beeston was the first student to take this and, after he had graduated with a first in 1933, he decided to make Sabaean Inscriptions the subject of his D.Phil. thesis.

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