Adrian Digby
| Adrian Digby BA | |||||
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| Born | 1909 | ||||
| Died | 2001 | ||||
| Residence |
Whiteknobs Hotel, Caterham, Surrey [A63] British Museum [1933] Drayton Hose, Lowick, Kettering, Northamptonshire; British Museum [census] | ||||
| Occupation |
archaeologist museum work | ||||
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Office Notes
RAI Council 1934-35 Member
RAI Council 1935-36 Member
RAI Council 1936-37 Member
RAI Council 1938-39 Member
RAI Council 1939-40 Member
RAI Council 1940-41 Member
RAI Council 1942-43 Member
RAI Council 1943-44 Member
RAI Council 1944-45 Member
RAI Council 1946-47 Member
RAI Council 1947-48 Member
RAI Council 1948-49 Member
RAI Council 1949-50 Member
RAI Council 1951-52 Member
RAI Council 1952-53 Member
RAI Council 1954-55 Member
RAI Council 1955-56 Member
RAI Council 1956-57 Member
RAI Council 1958-59 Member
RAI Council 1959-60 Member
RAI Council 1960-61 Member
RAI Council 1961-62 Vice President
RAI Council 1962-63 Vice President
RAI Council 1963-64 Vice President
RAI Council 1964-65 Vice President
RAI Council 1966-67 Vice President
RAI Council 1967-68 Vice President
RAI Council 1968-69 Vice President
House Notes
1933.01.24 proposed by T.A. Joyce, seconded by H.J. Braunholtz
Notes From Elsewhere
Diploma student at the Pitt- Rivers Museum; joined the Dept of Ethnography, The British Museum, 1932, Keeper 1953-69; in 1957 he excavated the site of Las Cuevas in Honduras. In an unpublished memoir written after he retired, he documented the evacuation of the ethnography collection to Drayton House in Northamptonshire during the war years.
Joyce retired in 1938 and H.J. Braunholtz became keeper. He was effectively in charge of the ethnographic collections throughout the Second World War. Adrian Digby joined the department in 1932 and, in an unpublished memoir written after he retired, vividly documented the evacuation of the ethnography collection to Drayton House in Northamptonshire during the war years.
Adrian Digby became keeper in 1953. He was chiefly interested in the Maya, although he had responsibility for the archaeology and ethnography of the whole of the Americas. He excavated the site of Las Cuevas in Belize in 1957. William Fagg, keeper from 1969, had joined the department just before the Second World War and went on to become an eminent authority in African art. [British Museum]
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? (TV Series) (Himself) / Himself / Himself - Deputy Keeper of Ethnography, British Museum
- The Abbey Art Centre and Museum (1956) ... (Himself)
- University Museum of Pennsylvania (Transatlantic Exchange) (1954) ... Himself
- Sheffield City Museum (1954) ... Himself
- The Liverpool Museum (1954) ... (Himself)
- The Australian Museum (1954) ... (Himself)
Publications
External Publications
Maya jades
House Publications
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