![]() In 1937, he began his university studies of history at Westminster College, a teacher-training college attached to the University of London which moved to Oxford in 1959. ![]() Owing to his father's work, he grew up in Aberdeen and in various towns in England, including Brackley, Northamptonshire, where he attended Magdalen College School on a scholarship. Early years īeasley was born in Hanwell, Middlesex, to Helena May Chalk (1886–1962) and William Beasley (originally Beesley 1882–1961), who was an actor who had spent the years of the First World War interned in a camp near Groningen, in the Netherlands. ![]() He was Emeritus Professor of the History of the Far East at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University. William Gerald Beasley CBE FBA (22 December 1919 – 19 November 2006) was a British academic, author, editor, translator and Japanologist. ![]()
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