Hugh Brook Low
| Hugh Brook Low | |||||||
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| Born | 1849 | ||||||
| Died | 1887 | ||||||
| Residence |
2 Warwick Road, Upper Clapton Sarawak Civil Service [1883] | ||||||
| Occupation | civil service | ||||||
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proposed 1880.05.25
Sarawak civil service
Notes From Elsewhere
His [Hugh Low qv] son, Hugh “Hugo” Brooke Low, (1849-1887) joined the Sarawak Service in and while on his many expeditions in the Rejang and Batang Lupar tributaries collected the nucleus of the initial ethnographic collections in the Sarawak Museum. Brooke Low was intent on producing a major work on the peoples of North Borneo and his notes (many taken from other sources) were compiled by the ethnologist H. Ling Roth to produce the massive 2 volume The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo (1896).
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External Publications
The natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo; based chiefly on the mss. of the late H. B. Low, Sarawak government service
by Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1855-1925; Low, Hugh Brooke, 1849-1887
Published 1896
