Alfred Cort Haddon
| Prof. Alfred Cort Haddon MA, DSc, FRS, MRIA, FZS | |||||||
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| Born | 1855 | ||||||
| Died | 1940 | ||||||
| Residence |
Inisfail, Hills Road, Cambridge 3 Cranmer Road, Cambridge [1913] | ||||||
| Occupation |
anthropologist museum work | ||||||
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Professor of Zoology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin
proposed 29 Oct. 1889
1920 HML Migrations of cultures in British New Guinea Delivered 23rd Nov. at Royal Society
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Associate of Society for Psychical Research 1884
Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS,[1] FRGS (24 May 1855 – 20 April 1940, Cambridge) was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist. Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman, Sidney Ray, Anthony Wilkin on the Torres Strait Islands.
He returned to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had been an undergraduate, and effectively founded the School of Anthropology. Haddon was a major influence on the work of the American ethnologist Caroline Furness Jayne.
Born London; died Cambridge. Father was head of firm of type-founders and printers and mother was a children’s author under the name of Caroline Hadley.
Torres Straits expedition 1898-9. Professor of Zoology, Dublin. Fellow Christ’s College, Cambridge; Lecturer and Reader in Ethnology. Honorary doctorates from Manchester and Perth (Australia). Freemason.
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