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Sir Charles Ralph Boxer FBA GCIH (8 March 1904 – 27 April 2000) was a British historian of Dutch and Portuguese maritime and colonial history, especially in relation to South Asia and the Far East. In Hong Kong he was the chief spy for the British army intelligence in the years leading up to World War II. Early life.
Professor C. R. Boxer (1904-2000) Charles Boxer died on 27 April 2000, aged 96. He had been active as a scholar until well into his nineties, only the loss of his eyesight eventually putting an end to one of the most remarkable academic careers of modern times. Boxer was very much a Renaissance man, as Burckhardt understood the term.
Boxer was the ranking British intelligence officer in Hong Kong in the late 1930s as the Pacific war loomed. Although severely wounded during the invasion and later imprisoned, he helped lead covert resistance against the Japanese occupation.
A year after the death of the man considered to be the greatest historian of the Portuguese expansion abroad, the Orient Foundation printed Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life. Professor Dauril Alden unveils the unusual personality of the historian, soldier, teacher, collector, and traveler who, from the 1930s to the 1980s, produced a unique ...
Sir Charles Ralph Boxer FBA GCIH was a British historian of Dutch and Portuguese maritime and colonial history, especially in relation to South Asia and the Far... English Sign in
Charles Boxer, the most distinguished scholar of seventeenth-century Portuguese and Dutch colonial history of his generation, was a Fellow of the British Academy. He had been an army officer and in 1930 was seconded to the Far East as a language officer to specialise in Japanese.
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C.R. Boxer describes how porcelain, silks and, above all, tea formed the basis of a lucrative trade between the Chinese and Dutch in the eighteenth century.
