Book of photographs Taken by Hugh Richardson, the last British envoy to an independent Tibet. Of enormous cultural and historical importance. An obituary of Hugh Richardson from the Times Is pasted in.   Hugh Edward Richardson CIE OBE FBA (22 December 1905 – 3 December 2000[2]) was an Indian Civil Service officer, British diplomat and Tibetologist. His academic work focused on the history of the Tibetan empire, and in particular on epigraphy. He was among the last Europeans to have known Tibet and its society before the Chinese invasions which began in 1950.