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| name = Rivers

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| image = File:Rivers,_William_Halse_Rivers.jpg

| birth_date = 1864

| death_date = 1922

| occupation = medical<br />academic<br />anthropologist<br />psychiatrist

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| membership = ordinary fellow

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| societies = Folklore Society<br />Royal Society<br />British Association

AI Council 1901 Member<br />AI Council 1902 Member<br />AI Council 1903 Member<br />AI Council 1905 Member<br />AI Council 1906 Member<br />RAI Council 1907 Member<br />RAI Council 1909 Member<br />RAI Council 1910 Member<br />RAI Council 1911 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1912-13 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1913 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1914 Member<br />RAI Council 1915 Member<br />RAI Council 1916 Member<br />RAI Council 1917 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1918 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1919 Vice President<br />RAI Council 1920 Member<br />RAI Council 1921 President<br />RAI Council 1922 President

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William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRCP, FRS, (12 March 1864 – 4 June 1922) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating World War I officers who were suffering from shell shock. Rivers's most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death. Rivers was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and is also notable for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition of 1898 and his consequent seminal work on the subject of kinship.<br /><br />Born Chatham, Kent; died Cambridge. His maternal uncle was James Hunt, the racist anthropologist, whose library Rivers inherited. Lectureship in Psychology at Cambridge, 1897; Fellow St John’s, 1902. Torres Straits Expedition, 1898; Toda, 1901-2; Pacific, 1907-8, 1914-15. Work on shell shock during World War I. Honorary degrees from Manchester, St Andrews and Cambridge.<br /><br /><br /><br />