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'''Robert Sutherland Rattray'''
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RAI Council 1931-32 Member<br />RAI Council 1932-33 Member<br />RAI Council 1933-34 Member<br />RAI Council 1936-37 Member<br />RAI Council 1937-38 Member
=== House Notes ===
1907.07.16 proposed by G.H. Scott Elliot, seconded by T.A. Joyce<br />1933 Rivers Memorial Medal<br />1938.05.24 The Hon. Secretary reported the tragic death of Capt. R.S. Rattray who was a Member of Council.<br />death noted in Report of the Council 1937-1938<br />obituary in Man 38, 112
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Robert Sutherland Rattray, CBE, known as Captain R. S. Rattray (1881, India – 1938) was an early Africanist and student of the Ashanti. He was one of the early writers on Oware, and on Ashanti gold weights<br />Rattray was born in India of Scottish parents. In 1906 he joined the Gold Coast Customs Service. In 1911 he became the assistant District Commissioner at Ejura. Learning local languages, he was appointed head of the Anthropological Department of Asante in 1921. He retired in 1930. He was killed while flying a glider in 1938<br />
