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| name = Talbot | | name = Talbot | ||
| honorific_prefix = | | honorific_prefix = | ||
| − | | honorific_suffix = | + | | honorific_suffix = MA DSC |
| image = File:Talbot,_Percy_Amaury.jpg | | image = File:Talbot,_Percy_Amaury.jpg | ||
| birth_date = 1877 | | birth_date = 1877 | ||
| death_date = 1945 | | death_date = 1945 | ||
| − | | address = 67 Cambridge Mansions, Battersea Park, SW<br />The Cottage, Abbot's Morton, Worcestershire [1906]<br />[and] Eke, near Calabar, S. Nigeria [1913]<br />The Cottage, Abbot's Morton, Worcestershire; Degema, via Bonny, S. Nigeria [1915] | + | | address = 67 Cambridge Mansions, Battersea Park, SW<br />The Cottage, Abbot's Morton, Worcestershire [1906]<br />[and] Eke, near Calabar, S. Nigeria [1913]<br />The Cottage, Abbot's Morton, Worcestershire; Degema, via Bonny, S. Nigeria [1915]<br />The White House, Netherbury, near Beaminster, S.O., Dorset; Degema, via Bonny, S. Nigeria [1919]<br />The Residency, Benin, Nigeria [1921]<br />Abbots Morton, Inkberrow, Worcestershire [1923]<br />Bishopton, Stratford-on-Avon [1925]<br />[and] The Residency, Benin, Nigeria, SP [1927]<br />Bishopton, Stratford-on-Avon [1929]<br />c/o Barclay's Bank, Campetto 1, Genova, Italy [1931]<br />c/o Barclays Bank, 19 Fleet Street, EC4 [1933] |
| occupation = botanist<br />anthropologist<br />explorer<br />political | | occupation = botanist<br />anthropologist<br />explorer<br />political | ||
| elected_ESL = | | elected_ESL = | ||
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| elected_LAS = | | elected_LAS = | ||
| membership = ordinary fellow | | membership = ordinary fellow | ||
| − | | left = | + | | left = 1945 deceased |
| clubs = | | clubs = | ||
| − | | societies = | + | | societies = British Empire Society<br />Folklore Society<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal Astronomical Society<br />Linnean Society of London<br />Zoological Society<br />African Society |
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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In the shadow of the bush, 1912; <br />Life in southern Nigeria, 1923; <br />The peoples of southern Nigeria, 4 vols., 1926; Some Nigerian fertility cults, 1927; <br />Tribes of the Niger Delta, 1932<br /> | In the shadow of the bush, 1912; <br />Life in southern Nigeria, 1923; <br />The peoples of southern Nigeria, 4 vols., 1926; Some Nigerian fertility cults, 1927; <br />Tribes of the Niger Delta, 1932<br /> | ||
=== House Publications === | === House Publications === | ||
| − | + | JRAI Vol. 46 (Jan. - Jun., 1916), pp. 173-183 (15 pages) Notes on the Anthropometry of Some Central Sudan Tribes. | |
== Related Material Details == | == Related Material Details == | ||
=== RAI Material === | === RAI Material === | ||
| − | census<br />prize named for him | + | census<br />prize named for him<br />map box 27 |
=== Other Material === | === Other Material === | ||
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| Born | 1877 | ||||||||
| Died | 1945 | ||||||||
| Residence |
67 Cambridge Mansions, Battersea Park, SW The Cottage, Abbot's Morton, Worcestershire [1906] [and] Eke, near Calabar, S. Nigeria [1913] The Cottage, Abbot's Morton, Worcestershire; Degema, via Bonny, S. Nigeria [1915] The White House, Netherbury, near Beaminster, S.O., Dorset; Degema, via Bonny, S. Nigeria [1919] The Residency, Benin, Nigeria [1921] Abbots Morton, Inkberrow, Worcestershire [1923] Bishopton, Stratford-on-Avon [1925] [and] The Residency, Benin, Nigeria, SP [1927] Bishopton, Stratford-on-Avon [1929] c/o Barclay's Bank, Campetto 1, Genova, Italy [1931] c/o Barclays Bank, 19 Fleet Street, EC4 [1933] | ||||||||
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botanist anthropologist explorer political | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
Proposed by T.A. Joyce; seconded by William Gowland, 1905.11.21
Notes From Elsewhere
Percy Amaury Talbot (* 26. June 1877 ; † 28. December 1945 in Cheltenham ) was a range of interests and British officials, botanist, anthropologist and explorer . He was in the service of the Nigerian Political Service.
As ethnographic classics applies his book In the Shadow of the Bush (1912).
The author traveled with his wife Dorothy Amaury Talbot (1871-1916) extensively in Oban District of Nigeria Southern and part of Cameroon , to the people of the Ekoi to study as well as the natural history of the area. The work reported on religion, the secret society Egbo , Juju , status of women, birth practices, divination , sorcery, mourning ceremonies, war, government, folklore, etc. with detailed appendices on taboos, clubs, anthropometry, spelling, grammar, vocabularies, Botany, Zoology , Mineralogy, meteorology and geography
Publications
External Publications
In the shadow of the bush, 1912;
Life in southern Nigeria, 1923;
The peoples of southern Nigeria, 4 vols., 1926; Some Nigerian fertility cults, 1927;
Tribes of the Niger Delta, 1932
House Publications
JRAI Vol. 46 (Jan. - Jun., 1916), pp. 173-183 (15 pages) Notes on the Anthropometry of Some Central Sudan Tribes.
Related Material Details
RAI Material
census
prize named for him
map box 27
Other Material
