Anthony Wilkin
| Anthony Wilkin BA | |||||||
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| Died | 1901 | ||||||
| Residence | King's College, Cambridge; Lower Cousley Wood, Wadhurst, Sussex | ||||||
| Occupation | archaeologist | ||||||
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1900.03.27 proposed
report of council for 1901: We have also to deplore the untimely death of Mr. ANTHONY WILKIN, who died from dysentery in the spring of 1901. During his undergraduate course Mr. Wilkin was invited by our President to take part in the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits and New Guinea. Mr. Wilkin took most of the photographs for the Expedition, and besides assisting in making physical measurements of the natives, he made observations on their houses and on some of their customs. After taking a degree in the Historical Tripos at Cambridge in 1899, he spent a winter in Egypt with Professor Flinders Petrie. The following spring he went with Mr. D. Randall-MacIver to Algeria, in order to investigate the problem of the supposed relationship of the Berbers to the prehistoric Egyptians. That same autumn he published a popular account of this expedition entitled, Among the Berbers of Algeria, and early in the following, year was published the joint memoir, Lybian Notes. During the winter of 1900-01, Messrs. Randall-Maclver and Wilkin undertook some archaeological work in Egypt, and as the latter was on the point of returning home he fell sick and passed away. Thus was cut off a life full of promise. With great natural ability, good, mental training, and with an exceptionally wide experience in one so young, his friends confidently looked forward to a brilliant career in the furtherance of those objects which we all have at heart.
Notes From Elsewhere
excavated with Randall-McIver
Anthony Wilkin († 1901 in Cairo ) was a British explorer. He participated in the anthropological expedition of the University of Cambridge in the Torres Strait in part (1898-1899) and later toured North Africa.
Publications
External Publications
Among the Berbers of Algeria. London T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. 1900.
David Randall-Maciver and Anthony Wilkin: Libyan Notes. London, MacMillan & Co., Limited, 1901
On the Nile with a Camera, by Anthony Wilkin
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RAI Material
Other Material
Mcclean Museum, Inverclyde [Egyptian bits]
