Northcote Whitridge Thomas
| Northcote Whitridge Thomas MA | |||||||||
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| Born | 1868 | ||||||||
| Died | 1936 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Trinity College Cambridge [1900] 7 Coptic Street, WC [1904] c/o Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Whitehall Gardens, SW., 57 Glenwood Avenue, Westcliffe [1911] Egwoba, Manor Gate Road, Norbiton; Freetown, Sierra Leone [1913] c/o Minshall, Pugh and Co., Oswestry [1919] Wood Villa, Racecourse, Oswestry [1921] Egwoba, Trefonen, Oswestry [1923] Grove Cottage, West Malvern [1927] | ||||||||
| Occupation | anthropologist | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
AI Council 1900 Assistant Secretary
AI Council 1901 Assistant Secretary
AI Council 1905 Member
AI Council 1906 Member
RAI Council 1907 Member
House Notes
1900.10.23 Assistant Secretary. The appointment of Mr N.W. Thomas MA of Trinity College, Cambridge, as Assistant Secretary and Librarian, on the conditions specified in the Report of the Officers, was confirmed
Proposed as ordinary fellow by E.S. Hartland; seconded by T.A. Joyce, 1904.10.05
Corresponding Member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris
death noted in Report of the Council 1935-1936
Notes From Elsewhere
Northcote Whitridge Thomas (1868-1936) was the first British Government Anthropologist to work in the West African counties of present-day Nigeria and Sierra Leone. He made a remarkable contribution to European knowledge of the Igbo and Edo speaking peoples and their lands, across the fields of cultural anthropology, botany, music and linguistics.
[Paul Basu is an authority on him]
Publications
External Publications
Anthropological report on the Edo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, 2 vols., 1910; Anthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, 6 vols., 1913-14; Kinship organisations and group marriage in Australia, 1906; Natives of Australia, 1906
Crystal gazing its history and practice by Andrew Lang and Northcote Whitridge Thomas
Thought Transference: A Critical and Historical Review of the Evidence for Telepathy, with a Record of New Experiments... by Northcote Whitridge Thomas
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
5000 lantern slides; A22
Other Material
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge
