Melville William Hilton-Simpson
| Melville William Hilton-Simpson FRGS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1881 | ||||||||
| Died | 1938 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Sole Street House, Faversham, Kent The Museum, Oxford [1911] Sole Street House, Faversham; 322 Banbury Road, Oxford [1921] Sole Street House, Faversham; 13 Portland Road, Oxford [1923] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
traveller collector ethnographer museum work | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
RAI Council 1923 Member
RAI Council 1924 Member
RAI Council 1925 Member
House Notes
Proposed by T.A. Joyce; seconded by William Gowland 1906.06.01
1932 Rivers Memorial Medal
1938.03.22 death noted
Obituary Man June 1938 item 91. He died on the 17th March 1938
Notes From Elsewhere
Melville W. Hilton-Simpson was a traveller, collector and ethnographer who travelled extensively in North and Central Africa in the early part of the twentieth century. A Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, he died in 1936 [actually it was in 1938]
Publications
External Publications
Algiers and beyond, 1906; Among the hill folk of Algeria, 1921; Land and peoples of the Kasai, 1911
Arab medicine & surgery; a study of the healing art in Algeria
Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Photographs; journal
A51/2/20 details of bequest
Other Material
PRM: papers
