Thomas Athol Joyce
| Capt. Thomas Athol Joyce BA; MA OBE | |||||||
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| Born | 1878 | ||||||
| Died | 1942 | ||||||
| Residence |
British Museum, WC [and] 119 Melrose Avenue, Willesden Green, N. [1911] 151 Dartmouth Road, Cricklewood, NW2 [1917] BM and 16 York Mansions, Battersea Park, SW14 [1919] British Museum, WC [1921] [and] 17 Ridgmount Gardens, Chenies Street, WC1 [1937] | ||||||
| Occupation | museum work | ||||||
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Contents
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Office Notes
AI Council 1903 Member
AI Council 1904 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1905 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1906 Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1907 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1908 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1909 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1910 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1911 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1912-13 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1913 Vice President
RAI Council 1914 Vice President and acting Hon. Secretary from 1 Oct.
RAI Council 1915 Vice President and acting Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1916 Vice President and acting Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1917 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1918 Hon. Secretary
RAI Council 1919 Member
RAI Council 1920 Member
RAI Council 1921 Member
RAI Council 1922 Member
RAI Council 1923 Vice President
RAI Council 1924 Vice President
RAI Council 1925 Vice President
RAI Council 1926 Member
RAI Council 1927 Member
RAI Council 1928 Member
RAI Council 1930-31 Member
RAI Council 1931-32 President
RAI Council 1932-33 President
House Notes
1902.10.28 Proposed by J.L. Myres; seconded by A.C. Haddon, O.M. Dalton, James Edge-Partington, Henry Balfour
1912.11.26 The Chairman read a letter from the Secretary apologising for his absence owing to illness and tendering his resignation as the increasing calls upon his spare time made it impossible for him to devote as much attention to the ever-increasing business of the Institute as he could wish; at the same time he thanked the Council very cordially for the kind consideration that they had always shown him and assured them that he would always be ready to assist in furthering the aims and objects of the Institute. On the motion of the Chairman it was unanimously resolved to convey to Mr Joyce the Council’s deep regret at his resignation, which under the circumstances they were compelled to accept, and to thank him heartily for his unstinting labour in the interests of the Institute and of Anthropology in general during the whole period of his tenure of the office of Secretary
report of the council for 1917: congratulations to its joint Honorary Secretary, C'apt. T . A. Joyce,w ho has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire
death noted in Report of the Council 1941-1942
Notes From Elsewhere
Thomas Athol Joyce OBE (4 August 1878 – 3 January 1942) was a British anthropologist. He became an acknowledged expert on American and African Anthropology at the British Museum. He led expeditions to excavate Mayan sites in British Honduras. He wrote articles for the Encyclopedia Britannica including "Negro" which was derided in 1915 for its assumption of racial inferiority. He was the President of both the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Anthropological section of the British Association.
Joyce was divorced by his wife, Lilian (born Dayrell) in 1925 and his wife remarried the following year. Joyce's second partner was the travel writer Lilian Elwyn Elliott. Elliott had married before and no evidence has been found of her divorce or a formal marriage ceremony with Joyce.[1]
Publications
External Publications
Women of all nations, 1908
Mexican archaeology, 1912
Central American and West Indian archaeology, 1916
Maya and Mexican art, 1927
House Publications
108. Forehead Ornaments from the Solomon Islands; Man Vol. 35 (Jul., 1935), pp. 97-100
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