Percy Amaury Talbot

Percy Amaury Talbot MA DSC
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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]
Occupation	botanist anthropologist explorer political
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1945 deceased elected_AI 1905.12.07 societies British Empire Society Folklore Society Royal Geographical Society Royal Astronomical Society Linnean Society of London Zoological Society African Society

Notes

House Notes

Proposed by T.A. Joyce; seconded by William Gowland, 1905.11.21
death reported in Report of the Council 1945-46
obituary in Man 1946

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

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prize named for him
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