Academic Orientalists eclipsed gentleman amateurs in the RAS
Evidence
Margoliouth was the first academic Orientalist to become president of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1937. Hitherto peers and gentlemen scholars had dominated that institution. Gladstone thought him one of the two most impressive men in Oxford. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 376
Related
- Nineteenth-century Orientalism was amateur, aristocratic, and unrefereed (similarity 0.79)