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| first_name = Charles Kinglsey
| name = Meek
| honorific_prefix = Dr| honorific_suffix = MA DSc
| image = File:Meek,_Charles_Kinglsey.jpg
| birth_date = 1885
| death_date = 1965
| address = District Officer, Nigerian Service<br />c/o The Secretariat to Government, Kaduna, Nigeria [1921]<br />Littleheath, Hindhead, Surrey [1923]<br />Royal Societies Club, Kaduna, Northern Provinces, Nigeria [1925]<br />Royal Societies Club, St James, SW1 [1927]<br />Secretariat, Enugu, Nigeria, BW Africa; [club][1931]<br />Royal Societies Club, St James, SW1 [1933]<br />4 Grouville Park, Grouville, Jersey, CI [1935]<br />Green Tye, Churt, Surrey [1949]| occupation = anthropologist<br />administrative
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| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1960.05.05 resigned but see note*; remitted1965 deceased| clubs = Royal Societies Club
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=== House Notes ===
1920.10.16 proposed by R.R. Marett, seconded by E.N. Fallaize 16 Oct. 1920<br />nominated 26 October 1920<br />1936 Wellcome medal Law and authority in a Nigerian tribe: a study in indirect rule<br />*1960.05.05. The resignation of Dr C.K. Meek was received with much regret; Council directed that his name be retained on the Fellows’ List and that a letter be sent expressing sympathy with his illness.<br />1965.04 death reported
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Charles Kingsley Meek FRAI FRGS (1885–1965), was a British anthropologist.<br />Meek was born in Larne on 24 June 1885. He was educated at Bedford School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. He subsequently joined the colonial administrative service and became a District Officer and anthropologist in Nigeria. His Northern Tribes of Nigeria (1925) is a classic of African anthropology. His Sudanese Kingdom (1931), a study of the Jukun people, is a significant work of ethnography.[1]<br />In 1943, Meek was elected as a Senior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. He retired in 1950 and died in Eastbourne on 27 March 1965.<br />