Edmund Hugh Ashton

Edmund Hugh Ashton

Edmund Hugh Ashton
File:Ashton, Edmund Hugh.jpg
Born	1911
Died	1986
Residence	32 Tavistock Square [A63] 13a High Street, St John's Wood, NW8 [1933] Maseru, Basutoland, South Africa [1935]
Occupation	administrative
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1986 deceased elected_AI 1933.12.12 1934.01.08

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Notes

Office Notes

House Notes

1933.11.09 proposed by R.W. Firth, seconded by C.G. Seligman
1938.01.25 It was resolved that Mr Ashton’s subscription could not be refunded as his resignation had not been received. - [not certain it is this Mr Ashton]
1986.12.10 death noted: death notice is of Dr E. Ashton, assuming this is the man

Notes From Elsewhere

Ashton, E. H. (Edmund Hugh), 1911-

Edmund Hugh Ashton was a Colonial Administrator in Basutoland who held a number of positions, and collected a large body of work on origin for Sotho speakers [House of the crocodile: south Sotho art and history in southern Africa. dissertation by David Matthew merkel Riep]

Publications

External Publications

Medicine, magic and sorcery among the southern Sotho, 1943;
The social structure of the southern Sotho, 1946

The Basuto. 1952

Notes on the political and judicial organisation of the Tawana, Volume 10. Edmund Hugh Ashton. 1937 - Social Science

House Publications

Related Material Details

RAI Material

Other Material

University of Witswatersrand: Ashton photographic archive