death_place death_date religion children nationality ethnicity parents birth_date image article_title name occupation alma_mater
mandalay , british burma 29 may 1930 buddhism 6 sons , 1 daughter burmese burmese chinese and shan taw sein sun -lrb- father -rrb- daw nu 7 december 1864 taw-sein-ko . jpg taw sein ko
 taw sein ko archaeologist rangoon college inner temple , inns of court
taw sein ko

taw sein ko -lrb- ; ; 7 december 1864 -- 29 may 1930 -rrb- was burma 's first recorded archaeologist .
he was the son of a burmese chinese father with ancestry from amoy , china , taw sein sun -lrb- 杜成孫 -rrb- and daw nu -lrb- -rrb- , a shan princess .
taw 's father was a merchant in bhamo , while his wife was the daughter of tan htun -lrb- who died in october 1910 -rrb- , a merchant in rangoon .
he graduated from rangoon college in 1881 and read law at the british inner temple , inns of court in 1892 .
taw sein ko joined the indian civil service in 1884 .
in 1886 , he wrote `` maung po : a product of western civilization '' .
throughout the 1880s to 1910s , he was a prominent advocate of university education and education of women in burma and lobbied for prioritizing buddhist education in the british-led state curriculum .
he was an advocate for modernizing burma 's medical education system , and unsuccessfully lobbied for incorporating indigenous treatments and practices into school curriculum .
he was also instrumental in re-instituting nationwide buddhist scripture examinations in pali for buddhist monks in 1895 and the appointment and election of a buddhist supreme patriarch in 1903 .
in 1893 , he became the assistant secretary to the government of burma .
that year , after completing his first archaeological tour of mon areas , he published his findings where he advocated for the preservation of the mon language through conservation of manuscripts and relics at various museums in burma -lrb- bernard free library and phayre museum -rrb- and england .
in 1897 , he was sent as part of a government delegation to peking -lrb- now beijing -rrb- and appointed government burmese translator , concurrently with the positions of archaeologist and adviser on chinese affairs for two years .
during the 1899-1900 boxer uprising , he served as a warden of the frontier areas , and helped to establish an anglo-chinese school .
in 1902 , he returned to his position as assistant secretary .
from 1903-1905 , he served his terms as government archaeologist and adviser on chinese affairs .
in 1906 , the government re-designated the position of government archaeologist as superintendent of the archaeological survey .
in 1903 , taw sein ko was awarded the gold kaisar-i-hind medal from delhi durbar .
on 12 december 1911 , king george v bestowed upon him the imperial service order decoration .
in 1917 , he was knighted by king george v -lrb- 1865 -- 1936 -rrb- with the imperial service order as the most eminent order of the indian empire .
he died at the age of 66 years in mandalay and left behind six sons and one daughter .
