Codrington, H. W. (Humphrey William), 1879-1942 (Personal Name)

Writer on Ceylon.

Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.

NYPL Dict. Cat. of the Dance Coll., 1974-

authorandbookinfo.com, viewed July 25, 2013 (Humphrey William Codrington; nationality: UK; born 1879 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England and died November 7, 1942 in England at age 63)

Studies of the Syrian liturgies, 1952 : title page (H.W. Codrington) introduction (Mr. Codrington was interested in the Eastern Churches and their liturgies. Before he left for Ceylon, he learned Syriac and Arabic and transcribed a number of early unprinted documents from the British Museum concerning Jacobite or Syrian Monophysite rites.)

Ceylon coins and currency, 1924: title page (H. W. Codrington)

A short history of Ceylon, 1926: title page (H.W. Codrington)