Frederick William Hugh Migeod

Frederick William Hugh Migeod FRGS
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Born	1872
Died	1952
Residence	Northcote, Christchurch Road, Worthing 46 Christchurch Road, Worthing; [and also in 1917] Kumasi, Gold Coast Northcote, Christchurch Road, Worthing; c/o Post Office, Victoria, British Cameroons [1927] Northcote, Christchurch Road, Worthing [1929]
Occupation	civil service
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1952 deceased elected_AI 1914.04.10 societies Royal Geographical Society Geologist's Association Worthing Archaeological Society

Notes

House Notes

1914.03.24 proposed by H.S. Harrison, seconded by T.A. Joyce
1952.10.09 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

Frederick William Hugh Migeod was born in Chislehurst, Kent, educated in Folkstone before joining the Royal Navy Pay Department in 1889. In 1900, he began service with the Colonial Civil Service and was stationed on the Gold Coast until 1919. He then embarked on a series of expeiditons to Lake Chad, Cameroon, and Sierra Leone. He also led the British Museum East Africa expedition to excavate dinosaur bones. When he returned to England he became a local councillor and Alderman in Worthing and was the Chairman of the British Union for Abolition of Vivisection. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society between 1917 to 1952.

Publications

External Publications

The Mende Language: Containing Useful Phrases, Elementary Grammar, Short Vocabularies, Reading Materials
by F. W. H. Migeod

The Languages of West Africa I & II
by F.W.H. Migeod

Across Equatorial Africa
1923
by F.W.H. Migeod

WORTHING A SURVEY OF TIMES PAST AND PRESENT
1938
by F.W.H. Migeod

A Grammar Of The Hausa Language
1914
by F W H Migeod

The syllabic writing of the Vai people
1909
by F. W. H Migeod

House Publications

JRAI Vol. 49 1919, pp. 265-270 Some Observations on the Physical Characters of the Mende Nation.

Related Material Details

RAI Material

census
photos box 27

Other Material

Horniman museum objects
papers at SOAS