Background
Thomas was born on March 21, 1867 in Tamworth, Staffordshire.
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At Cambridge he studied Sanskrit under the influential Orientalist Edward Byles Cowell.
Career
After schooling at King Edward"s School, Birmingham, he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1885, graduating with a first class degree in both classics and Indian languages and being awarded a Browne medal in both 1888 and 1889. He was a librarian at the India Office Library (now subsumed into the British Library) between 1898 and 1927. Simultaneously he was lecturer in comparative philology at University College, London from 1908 to 1935, Reader in Tibetan at London University from 1909 to 1937 and the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University between 1927 and 1937, in which capacity he became a fellow of Balliol College.
His students at Oxford included Harold Walter Bailey.
Thomas became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1927. He died on 6 May 1956.
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