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Donald Sidney Richards, was born in 1935 in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Life
Donald was attending Oxford by 1953 and while at Merton College he read Literae Humaniores, before getting his degree in Arabic and Persian in 1957. After two years in the royal navy he returned to Oxford at the behest of Professor A.F.L. Beeston, Freddie Beeston and Albert Hourani. In 1960 he was given the Lectureship over Arabic, within the Faculty of Oriental Studies. At St. Cross College, he gained an Official Fellowship in 1967, of which he was Vice-master from 1991-1995. In 1983, he completed a sabbatical in Jerusalem as the Senior Research Fellow at the British School of Archeology.

Donald retired in 2000 after forty years of teaching.