Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Saunders, Richard Merrill
Parallel form(s) of name
- R. M. Saunders
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1904-
History
Richard Merrill Saunders was born in 1904 in Massachusetts. After graduating from college, he took a three-year appointment at the American University of Beirut in the late 1920s. Upon his return to the United States he completed a Ph.D. at Cornell University. He accepted a position as professor of history at the University of Toronto.