Background
Michael Vaillancourt Aris was born on March 27, 1946 in Havana, Cuba to John Aris, an officer with the British Council, and Josette Aris.
Michael completed his degree in modern history at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University in 1967.
Michael was educated at Worth School in Sussex.
Michael completed his degree in modern history at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University in 1967.
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Michael Vaillancourt Aris was born on March 27, 1946 in Havana, Cuba to John Aris, an officer with the British Council, and Josette Aris.
Michael was educated at Worth School in Sussex and completed his degree in modern history at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University in 1967.
Aris spent six years as the private tutor of the children of the royal family of the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. Aris was an academic and lecturer in Asian history at St John's College and later at St Antony's College, Oxford. In the last years before his death, he helped to establish a specialist Tibetan and Himalayan Studies centre at Oxford.
Michael Aris's identical twin brother, Anthony Aris, similarly became a scholar of Tibetan studies, and founded Serindia Publications to focus on bringing Tibetan history and culture to modern audiences.
In 1997, Aris was diagnosed with prostate cancer which was later found to be terminal. Aris died of prostate cancer on his 53rd birthday in 1999, in Oxford.
Michael married Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on January 1, 1972. They had two sons, Alexander and Kim.
