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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Northcote Whitridge
| name = Thomas
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA
| image = File:Thomas,_Northcote_Whitridge.jpg
| birth_date = 1868
| death_date = 1936
| address = Trinity College Cambridge [1900]<br />7 Coptic Street, WC [1904]<br />c/o Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Whitehall Gardens, SW., 57 Glenwood Avenue, Westcliffe [1911]<br />Egwoba, Manor Gate Road, Norbiton; Freetown, Sierra Leone [1913]<br />c/o Minshall, Pugh and Co., Oswestry [1919]<br />Wood Villa, Racecourse, Oswestry [1921]<br />Egwoba, Trefonen, Oswestry [1923]<br />Grove Cottage, West Malvern [1927]
| occupation = anthropologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1904
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Assistant Secretary<br />ordinary fellow - life compounder
| left = 1936 deceased
| clubs =
| societies = Anthropological Society of Paris<br />Folklore Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1900 Assistant Secretary<br />AI Council 1901 Assistant Secretary<br />AI Council 1905 Member<br />AI Council 1906 Member<br />RAI Council 1907 Member
=== House Notes ===
1900.10.23 Assistant Secretary. The appointment of Mr N.W. Thomas MA of Trinity College, Cambridge, as Assistant Secretary and Librarian, on the conditions specified in the Report of the Officers, was confirmed<br /><br />Proposed as ordinary fellow by E.S. Hartland; seconded by T.A. Joyce, 1904.10.05<br />Corresponding Member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Northcote Whitridge Thomas (1868-1936) was the first British Government Anthropologist to work in the West African counties of present-day Nigeria and Sierra Leone. He made a remarkable contribution to European knowledge of the Igbo and Edo speaking peoples and their lands, across the fields of cultural anthropology, botany, music and linguistics. <br /><br />[Paul Basu is an authority on him]<br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Anthropological report on the Edo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, 2 vols., 1910; Anthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, 6 vols., 1913-14; Kinship organisations and group marriage in Australia, 1906; Natives of Australia, 1906<br /><br />Crystal gazing its history and practice by Andrew Lang and Northcote Whitridge Thomas<br /><br />Thought Transference: A Critical and Historical Review of the Evidence for Telepathy, with a Record of New Experiments... by Northcote Whitridge Thomas<br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
5000 lantern slides; A22
=== Other Material ===
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge<br />
| first_name = Northcote Whitridge
| name = Thomas
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA
| image = File:Thomas,_Northcote_Whitridge.jpg
| birth_date = 1868
| death_date = 1936
| address = Trinity College Cambridge [1900]<br />7 Coptic Street, WC [1904]<br />c/o Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Whitehall Gardens, SW., 57 Glenwood Avenue, Westcliffe [1911]<br />Egwoba, Manor Gate Road, Norbiton; Freetown, Sierra Leone [1913]<br />c/o Minshall, Pugh and Co., Oswestry [1919]<br />Wood Villa, Racecourse, Oswestry [1921]<br />Egwoba, Trefonen, Oswestry [1923]<br />Grove Cottage, West Malvern [1927]
| occupation = anthropologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1904
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = Assistant Secretary<br />ordinary fellow - life compounder
| left = 1936 deceased
| clubs =
| societies = Anthropological Society of Paris<br />Folklore Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1900 Assistant Secretary<br />AI Council 1901 Assistant Secretary<br />AI Council 1905 Member<br />AI Council 1906 Member<br />RAI Council 1907 Member
=== House Notes ===
1900.10.23 Assistant Secretary. The appointment of Mr N.W. Thomas MA of Trinity College, Cambridge, as Assistant Secretary and Librarian, on the conditions specified in the Report of the Officers, was confirmed<br /><br />Proposed as ordinary fellow by E.S. Hartland; seconded by T.A. Joyce, 1904.10.05<br />Corresponding Member of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Northcote Whitridge Thomas (1868-1936) was the first British Government Anthropologist to work in the West African counties of present-day Nigeria and Sierra Leone. He made a remarkable contribution to European knowledge of the Igbo and Edo speaking peoples and their lands, across the fields of cultural anthropology, botany, music and linguistics. <br /><br />[Paul Basu is an authority on him]<br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Anthropological report on the Edo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, 2 vols., 1910; Anthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, 6 vols., 1913-14; Kinship organisations and group marriage in Australia, 1906; Natives of Australia, 1906<br /><br />Crystal gazing its history and practice by Andrew Lang and Northcote Whitridge Thomas<br /><br />Thought Transference: A Critical and Historical Review of the Evidence for Telepathy, with a Record of New Experiments... by Northcote Whitridge Thomas<br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
5000 lantern slides; A22
=== Other Material ===
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge<br />
