Melville William Hilton-Simpson
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
death noted in Report of the Council 1937-1938
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