Miriam Louise Tildesley
| Miss Miriam Louise Tildesley | |||||||||
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| Born | 1883 | ||||||||
| Died | 1979 | ||||||||
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Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2 [A63] 30 Gloucester Street, Pimlico, SW [1923] 19 Pembridge Crescent, W11 [1935] 71 Crouch Hill, N4 [1937] [and] Chequerfield, Stubbs Road, Wolverhampton [census] | ||||||||
| Occupation | anthropologist | ||||||||
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Office Notes
RAI Council 1930-31 Member
RAI Council 1931-32 Member
RAI Council 1933-34 Member
RAI Council 1934-35 Member
RAI Council 1935-36 Member
RAI Council 1937-38 Member
RAI Council 1938-39 Member
RAI Council 1939-40 Member
RAI Council 1940-41 Member
RAI Council 1941-42 Member
RAI Council 1942-43 Member
RAI Council 1943-44 Member
RAI Council 1945-46 Member
RAI Council 1946-47 Member
RAI Council 1947-48 Member
RAI Council 1949-50 Member
RAI Council 1950-51 Member
RAI Council 1951-52 Member
RAI Council 1952-53 Vice President
RAI Council 1953-54 Vice President
RAI Council 1954-55 Vice President
RAI Council 1956-57 Member
RAI Council 1957-58 Member
RAI Council 1958-59 Member
House Notes
1922.12.19 nominated, proposed by K. Pearson, seconded by M.A. Murray
Curator of Osteology, Royal College of Surgeons
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Notes From Elsewhere
Miriam Louise Tildesley (1 July 1883 – 31 January 1979) was an English anthropologist
The daughter of William Henry Tildesley and Rebecca Fisher, she was born in Willenhall, Staffordshire and was educated in Birmingham. She trained as a teacher and spent three years teaching. She was involved in statistical work during World War I, working with Professor Karl Pearson of University College London. In 1918, she was named Crewdson Benington research student in craniometry, working under Professor Pearson. In 1920, she was named by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to work on the human osteological collections at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons.[1]
In 1923, Tildesley published Sir Thomas Browne: his skull, portraits and ancestry.[1] The stated purpose of this document was to explore to what extent various racial characteristics and knowledge about the individual could be derived from a study of their skull. While Tildesley found that Browne's skill was typical of English males, she concluded that, in this case, there appeared to be little correlation between the characteristics of the skull and its owner's mental capacity.[2]
Also in 1923, she was named a research assistant in charge of the collections at the Hunterian Museum;[1] she served as a curator of human osteology for the museum from 1932 to 1934. In 1939, Tildesley was named a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI). She served on the council for the RAI for a number of years and was vice-president from 1952 to 1955.[3] She also served as chair of the Comité de Standardisation de la Technique Anthropologique. She was named a member in the Order of the British Empire for her contributions to anthropology.
She died at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire at the age of 95.[
Publications
External Publications
In 1923, Tildesley published Sir Thomas Browne: his skull, portraits and ancestry
List of publications in A71
House Publications
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