Francis Rickman Barton

Capt. Francis Rickman Barton CMG
Born	1865
Died	1947
Residence	Union Club, Trafalgar Square Zanzibar; Union Club [1909] Lockerley Manor, Romsey, Hants [1915] 68 Boundary Road, NW8; Union Club [1917]
Occupation	administrative armed services plant collector
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow elected_AI 1907.07.19 clubs Union Club

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Office Notes

AI Council 1917 Member
AI Council 1918 Member
AI Council 1919 Member

House Notes

Proposed by C.G. Seligman, seconded by T.A. Joyce, 1907.06.26
friend of Charles Gabriel Seligman

Notes From Elsewhere

Born in 1865 in Fundenhall village in the county of Norfolk, son of Rev. Gerard Barton
on 12 May 1908, a year after leaving British New Guinea, he married Santa Carla Tofft, daughter of the composer Alfred Tofft, who was then aged sixteen. [Chris Wright. An unsuitable man, Pacific Arts July 1997]

Capt Francis Rickman Barton (photographer; official; military/naval; collector; English; Male; 1865; - 1945 or 1947;; ;)
Captain Francis Rickman Barton (1865 –1947) was an army captain serving in Sierra Leone and Barbados, who went to New Guinea in 1899, becoming private secretary to the Governor, then Resident Magistrate in Central Division in 1903 and Administrator of New Guinea from 1904-7 based in Port Moresby. In 1904 he met the British anthropologist, Charles Seligman (q.v.) - part of the Cook Daniels expedition - carried out field research for him and contributed to his book 'Melanesians of British New Guinea' (Seligman: 1910). Barton resigned in 1908 and moved to Zanzibar. Collected plants,
Born 14 January 1865, son of Rev. Gerard Barton (1834-1889) and Elizabeth Hazard. Full name 'Francis Rickman Barton'. Married 'Santa'. Died 1947, aged ~82.

Publications

House Publications

Children's games in British New Guinea, 1908
Tattooing in South Eastern New Guinea, 1918

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