Archibald Norman ('Archie') Tucker

Prof. Archibald Norman ('Archie') Tucker MA PhD
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Born	1904
Died	1980
Residence	Somerhill, Cold Blow, Bexley, Kent [A63] 17 Court Farm Road, Mottingham, SE9 [1933] 36 Petts Wood Road, Orpington, Kent [1937] [and] Somerhill, Bexley, Kent [census] 76 Granville road, Sevenoaks, Kent [1949]
Occupation	academic linguist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow local correspondent appointed 23 Feb. 1937 (Angola) elected_AI 1933.06.20 societies International Institute of African Languages and Culture

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1933.05.23 proposed by Rachel M. Fleming, seconded by T.A. Joyce
check this is the right man for local correspondent - A10:4 just says Mr Tucker

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Tucker was Linguistic Expert of non-Arabic Languages for the Sudan Government from 1929 to 1931. Edward Evans-Pritchard seems to have met Tucker during his 1930 field trip, during or after which time he gave him a number of prints inscribed on the reverse. Tucker was born in Cape Town in 1904, and educated at South African College School. He obtained an MA from the University of Cape Town in 1926, and PhD from the University of London in 1929 (D.Litt. in 1949). In 1932 he became Reader at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Much of his work was concerned with orthographic research, which he undertook in both Uganda and Kenya (on Ganda and Kikuyu respectively). He organised and directed an orthography conference in Western Uganda in 1954, and, prior to that, in 1949-1951, he supervised a Bantu line expedition in the Belgian Congo for the International African Institute.

Archibald Norman Tucker, Professor
Also Known As: "Archie"
Birthdate: March 10, 1904
Birthplace: Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Death: July 16, 1980 (76)
London, Greater London, United Kingdom (Cancer)
Place of Burial: London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:
Son of Norman Tucker and Gertrude Sarah Tucker
Husband of Betty Tucker (Hills)
Father of Martin Tucker; Nicholas Tucker; Private User; Private User and Private
Brother of Hilda Halliday and Hubert Tucker
Occupation: Professor of African Languages at SOAS

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External Publications

Linguistic analyses: the non-Bantu languages of north-eastern Africa, 1966;
Tribal music and dancing in the southern Sudan, 1933, etc.

House Publications

Children's games and songs in the southern Sudan; by A.N. Tucker JRAI vol. LXIII 1933

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