John Abercromby
| Hon.; Baron John Abercromby | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1841 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1924 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
21 Chapel Place, Belgrave Square, London [1889] 62 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh [1894] | ||||||||||
| Occupation |
archaeologist armed services | ||||||||||
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proposed 12 Nov. 1889
death reported in Report of the Council for 1924
obituary notice in Man xxiv no. 120
Notes From Elsewhere
John Abercromby, 5th Baron Abercromby (15 January 1841 – 7 October 1924) was a Scottish soldier and archaeologist.
Abercromby was the son of George Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby, and Louisa Penuel Forbes, and had two brothers and a sister. He was a Lieutenant with the Rifle Brigade. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an honorary Doctorate of Law (LLD). On 3 October 1917, following the death of his elder brother George, he succeeded as the fifth Lord Abercromby.
After leaving the army in 1870 he devoted himself to languages, travel, and folklore. In 1904 he introduced the term Beaker into the archaeological lexicon to describe the late neolithic drinking vessels being found all over western Europe. He supported the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and served as its president from 1913 to 1918. His will provided for the foundation of the Abercromby Chair of Archaeology at Edinburgh University, a post occupied by Vere Gordon Childe and Stuart Piggott.
He is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh at its east side, close to the main entrance.
Abercromby married his Swedish cousin, Adele Wilhelmina Marika von Heidenstern, on 26 August 1876. They had one daughter, Edla Louisa Montague Abercromby (b. 1877), who married Georges N. Nasos in 1906. As he had no son, the Barony of Abercromby became extinct on his death.
Publications
External Publications
A trip through the Eastern Caucasus: with a chapter on the languages of the country (London: Edward Stanford, 1889), online
The pre- and proto-historic Finns, both Eastern and Western: with the magic songs of the west Finns, Grimm Library, 9-10, 2 vols (London: Nutt, 1898), vol. 1, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 2[1]
A study of the Bronze Age pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and its associated grave-goods, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912), vol. 1, vol. 2
House Publications
Oldest bronze age ceramic type in Britain 1902
Chronology of prehistoric beads and ceramic types in Britain 1905
Prehistoric pottery of the Canary Is. 1914
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