JAMES R. HERBERT BOONE, left his Baltimore home, the Oak Hill House, and art collection to Hopkins to support the humanities. The University used part of the proceeds of these gifts to endow this professorship. Mr. Boone and his wife, Muriel Harmar Wurtz-Dundas Boone, spent much of their married life in Europe where they were granted audiences with the Pope and royalty in England and Italy. Mr. Boone made headlines in the 1930s for funding a lengthy but unsuccessful hunt for sunken treasure off the English coast. He died in 1983.
JAMES R. HERBERT BOONE, left his Baltimore home, the Oak Hill House, and art collection to Hopkins to support the humanities. The University used part of the proceeds of these gifts to endow this professorship. Mr. Boone and his wife, Muriel Harmar Wurtz-Dundas Boone, spent much of their married life in Europe where they were granted audiences with the Pope and royalty in England and Italy. Mr. Boone made headlines in the 1930s for funding a lengthy but unsuccessful hunt for sunken treasure off the English coast. He died in 1983.
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