Claim: Ralph Lilley Turner worked as a Professor of Indian Linguistics at Benares Hindu University and as a Professor of Sanskrit at the University of London before he supervised several research studies on Romani Studies.
Evidence: From 1920 to 1922, he was Professor of Indian Linguistics at Benares Hindu University. In 1922, Turner returned to England as Professor of Sanskrit at the School of Oriental Studies at the University of London. Between 1924 and 1932, he also published several papers on Romani Studies in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, including "On the position of Romani in Indo-Aryan" (1927).