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Biographical Note

Charles Ralph Boxer, 1904-2000, was born on the Isle of Wight, England. Boxer studied at the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst and then served in the British Army for twenty-four years (1923-1947).

At the beginning of his military career, peacetime allowed him to study maritime history and collect rare books. He went on to serve for an extended amount of time in Japan as a language officer, then transitioned to intelligence work in Hong Kong.

Dauril Alden was born in in California.

Dauril Alden is Professor of History and Latin American Studies at the University of Washington.

Biography.

Boxer: An Uncommon Life: Soldier, Historian, Teacher, Collector, Traveller, a biography by historian Dauril Alden, , was published in Lisbon by Fundação.

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During World War II, he was captured and sent to a Japanese internment camp. He left the army after the war, at which time he resumed the reading and historical research that he had begun as a young man. Though he never earned a history degree, he was offered a professorship at King's College in London in 1947.

He served as the Camões Chair of Portuguese and as a professor of the history of the Far East. After retiring from King's College, Boxer served as a visiting professor at Indiana University