Sidney Herbert Ray
| Sidney Herbert Ray | |||||||
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| Born | 1858 | ||||||
| Died | 1939 | ||||||
| Residence |
36 Penshurst Road, South Hackney 84 Grange Road, Ilford, Essex; and 56 Tredegar Road, North Bow, E. 218 Balfour Road, Ilford, Essex [1900] | ||||||
| Occupation |
educator linguist | ||||||
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AI Council 1903 Member
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RAI Council 1909 Member
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RAI Council 1912-13 Member
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RAI Council 1927 Member
RAI Council 1928 Member
RAI Council 1929 Member
RAI Council 1930-31 Member
House Notes
proposed 10 Dec. 1889, named Rev. (but this crossed out when election noted)
Notes From Elsewhere
Sidney Herbert Ray (28 May 1858 – 1 January 1939) was a comparative and descriptive linguist who specialized in Melanesian languages. In 1892, he read an important paper, The languages of British New Guinea, to the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists. In that paper, he established the distinction between the Austronesian and Papuan languages of New Guinea.[1] Although he never held an academic position, and was employed throughout his working life as a school teacher,[2] S. H. Ray was an energetic fieldworker, and participated in a number of expeditions.
His first fieldwork was carried out as part of A. C. Haddon's 1898 Torres Straits Expedition along with W. H. R. Rivers, C. G. Seligman and Anthony Wilkin. At the time Ray was a primary school teacher, who had already made a study of two Torres Straits languages on the basis of missionary publications and data supplied by Haddon.
Born London; died Southend.
Spent career as teacher at Olga Street School Bethnal Green. Authority on Melanesian languages. Numerous publications on subject. Accompanied Cambridge expedition to Fly River, New Guinea, 1898-9. Honorary MA from Cambridge.