Henry Ling Roth

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Henry Ling Roth
FRS New SW, FSS, FMS, etc.
Roth, Henry Ling.jpg
Born 1855
Died 1925
Residence Mackay, Queensland [1882]
32 Prescott Street, Halifax [1899]
Briarfield, Shibden, Halifax [1905]
Briarfield, Stump Cross, Halifax [1915]
Occupation museum work
Society Membership
membership ordinary fellow
elected_AI 1882.05.09
societies Royal Society of New South Wales
Statistical Society




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1882.04.25 proposed


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Henry Ling Roth (3 February 1855 – 12 May 1925) was an English-born anthropologist and museum curator, active in Australia.

Born London; died Halifax. Brother of Walter E. Roth.
Travelled widely in Australia, West Indies and elsewhere. Numerous publications. From 1900 associated with Bankfield Museum and later became its Keeper.

Publications

External Publications

his volumes on the Tasmanian aborigines and the natives of Sarawak and North Borneo were standard books

Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms by H. Ling Roth

Great Benin: Its Customs, Art and Horrors. 1903

The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo by Henry Ling Roth

House Publications

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Other Material

Henry Ling Roth's collection of books was acquired by the library of the University of Manchester in 1917.
PRM field collector