Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton
| Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton | |||||||
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| Born | 1889 | ||||||
| Died | 1939 | ||||||
| Residence |
6 St John's Road, Oxford Dept. of Human Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford [1919] [and] 259 Woodstock Road, Oxford [1927] | ||||||
| Occupation |
scientist engineer anthropologist | ||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
RAI Council 1923 Member
RAI Council 1924 Member
RAI Council 1925 Member
RAI Council 1927 Member
RAI Council 1931-32 Member
RAI Council 1932-33 Member
House Notes
1913.05.16 proposed by R.R. Marett, seconded by T.C. Hodson
1939.03.21 death reported
death noted in Report of the Council 1938-1939
Notes From Elsewhere
Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton (scientist/engineer; British; Male; 1889 - 1939)
Reader in Physical Anthropology, Oxford University 1928-1939. Undertook fieldwork in Cyprus in 1913 under the auspices of the Archaeological Expedition of the British Association and under the guidance of Professor J L Myres. Buxton's research was published in the Bulletins of the Royal Anthropological Society, 'Man', in two articles: 'The anthropology of Cyprus' (1920) and 'Notes on Cypriot Textiles' (1921).
Other textiles collected by Buxton are in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Oxford and the Bankfield Museum in Halifax. [source: Papademetriou, Eleni (editor) (2000), Cypriot Ethnography Collections in British Museums, The Ministry of Education and Culture - Cultural Services, pp 114 - 116].
Buxton also carried out anthropological work in India, China, the USA, Mesopotamia and Malta.
He was Reader in Physical Anthropology at Oxford. Published esoteric works like "The Ethnology of Malta and Gozo" and "Measurements of Oxfordshire ...
Publications
External Publications
The Peoples of Asia (History of Civilization)
Primitive Labour / by L. H. Dudley Buxton
1924
China, the Land and the People: A Human Geography
The anthropology of Cyprus Unknown Binding – 1920
House Publications
Anthrop. of Cyprus 1920
Ethnology of Malta and Gozo 1922
Inhabitants of inner Mongolia 1926
Report on the human remains found at Kish [with D. Talbot Rice] 1931
The essential craniological technique [with G.M. Morant] 1932
Measurements of Oxfordshire villagers [with J.C. Trevor and B. Blackwood] 1939
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Other Material
BM?; textiles collected by Buxton are in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Oxford and the Bankfield Museum in Halifax; Oxford University: papers, corresp with JLM