Edwin Sidney Hartland

Edwin Sidney Hartland LLD FSA
Born	1848
Died	1927
Residence	Highgarth, Gloucester 13 Alexandra Road, Gloucester [1921]
Occupation	literary legal
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow - life compounder left 1927 deceased elected_AI 1897.01.12 societies Society of Antiquaries Folklore Society Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society

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AI Council 1899 Member
AI Council 1900 Member
AI Council 1901 Member
AI Council 1903 Vice President
AI Council 1904 Vice President
AI Council 1905 Vice President
AI Council 1906 Member
RAI Council 1907 Member
RAI Council 1916 Member
RAI Council 1917 Member
RAI Council 1918 Member

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1896.12.08 proposed by E.W. Brabrook
1923 HML The Council regret to record that Dr E.S. Hartland, to whom the Council has awarded the Huxley Medal for 1923, was not able to prepare and deliver the Huxley Memorial Lecture owing to the state of his health
1927.06.28 It was resolved on the motion of the President that the Council should place on record an expression of deep regret at the death of Dr E.S. Hartland and of appreciation of his great services to anthropology
death reported in Report of the Council for 1927

Notes From Elsewhere

Edwin Sidney Hartland (1848–1927) was an author of works on folklore.
His works include anthologies of tales, and theories on anthropology and mythology with an ethnological perspective. He believed that the assembling and study of persistent and widespread folklore provided a scientific insight into custom and belief. Hartland was president of the Folklore Society, 1899–1901, and contributed to its journal Folk-Lore; his earlier contributions included a dispute with Andrew Lang.[1]
Hartland was born in Islington, eventually making his career as a solicitor in Swansea. His father, E. J. Hartland, was a congregational minister. Throughout his life he served in many judicial positions and on public committees in Swansea and at Gloucester, and took a particular interest in education.[2]

There is an obit. by A. C. Haddon in Folklore Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jun. 30, 1926), pp. 178-192

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The science of fairy tales 1891
The legend of Perseus 1894
Primitive paternity 1909
The high gods of Australia
Ritual and belief 1914
Folklore; what is it ... 1899
Matrilineal kinship
Primitive law 1924
Primitive society 1921
Mythology and folk tales 1900
County folklore

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