Alvan Theophilus Marston
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| Alvan Theophilus Marston LDS RCS(Edin) | |||||||
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| Born | 1889 | ||||||
| Died | 1971 | ||||||
| Residence | North View, 74 Southside, Clapham Common, SW4 | ||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||
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1935.10.22 nominated
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Dentist and collector of flint tools. He attended Wygeston Boys' High School, Leicester. He discovered two pieces of the Swanscombe skull (1935, 1936) and conducted extensive excavations in the Swanscombe-Dartford area of Kent, donating the Palaeolithic artefacts found to the British Museum. Indirectly involved in disproving the Piltdown fraud (announced 1953) by recognising that the mandible and canine tooth were those of an ape. Fellowship in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1949), fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Geological Society of London.
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Jan 12 1937 read his paper on the Swanscombe skull illustrated by lantern slides and specimens
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